1 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:04,960 Speaker 1: From the newsroom. That news to come to me. 2 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 2: Good eight There, I'm Andrew Buckler, and listen, something so 3 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:12,720 Speaker 2: random is happening this week. Katie Perry, the singer is 4 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:15,720 Speaker 2: heading into space, Yes, space, on a Blue Origin flight. 5 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:18,960 Speaker 2: I'm just so excited for the perspective of Dean and 6 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:22,160 Speaker 2: for the stories I can tell after I see that curvature. 7 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:22,520 Speaker 1: Yeah. 8 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:24,759 Speaker 2: She's part of an all female crew, which also includes 9 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:28,440 Speaker 2: Jeff Bezos's wife Lauren Sanchez and Oprah's bestI Gail King. 10 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:30,640 Speaker 1: I'm sitting here terrified. 11 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 2: How can you be terrified and excited at the same time, But. 12 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 1: That is me. I'm very very, very very very scared. Na. 13 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 2: You'll be right, Gail. Now, weather permitting their due to 14 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 2: blast off on Tuesday Australian time, and we'll spend a 15 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:45,520 Speaker 2: few minutes in space before touching back down on Earth. 16 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:48,000 Speaker 2: Hopefully the whole troop is going to take less than 17 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:50,960 Speaker 2: fifteen minutes. And in today's episode, we're going to find 18 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 2: out what they're in store for. We'll be chatting to 19 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 2: a fellow who's already done this flight with Blue Origin. 20 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 2: He revealed what it was like in just a moment. 21 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 1: Sarah Vanessa Coobe Manuel Clinton, Steve, welcome to space. 22 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 2: We're doing it well. Steve Young is a very successful 23 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 2: businessman and philanthropist from the US who was one of 24 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:21,679 Speaker 2: six people on board Blue Origins sixth human spaceflight in 25 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:24,440 Speaker 2: August twenty twenty two, and Steve joins me. Now, thanks 26 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:26,040 Speaker 2: so much for Chattington News dot com. 27 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:28,280 Speaker 1: Dot A you, thank you for having me. I'm just 28 00:01:28,319 --> 00:01:32,119 Speaker 1: blown away that you still remember it from what three 29 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:32,920 Speaker 1: years ago? 30 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to ask you, if you have to 31 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 2: sum up your entire experience in just one word, what 32 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:38,319 Speaker 2: would it be? 33 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:44,840 Speaker 1: Amazing? I hate to be cliche, but strictly amazing. You 34 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 1: have your site set on what you think it's going 35 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 1: to be, and obviously for me, it was better than 36 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 1: I expected. 37 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 2: Let's go back to the beginning. Why did you want 38 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 2: to go into space? 39 00:01:57,160 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 1: I just sold my company and I'm I'm watching all 40 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:06,280 Speaker 1: these things on TV about the space raser, you know, 41 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:12,280 Speaker 1: with Bezos, and I don't even recall the other one, 42 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:17,800 Speaker 1: Richard Branson, Richard Branson, thank you, And so I'm studying 43 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:20,080 Speaker 1: them all up, going, oh, that would be kind of cool, 44 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 1: you know, bragging rights and whatnot. And as I did 45 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 1: my homework, Bezos was definitely the favorite thing to do. 46 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 1: I went and threw my name in the hat, I 47 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:35,560 Speaker 1: filled out the PaperWorks send it in, thinking there's no 48 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:39,520 Speaker 1: way this sixty year old guy is going to be 49 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:43,640 Speaker 1: accepted to something like this, And then you know, he 50 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,240 Speaker 1: goes into space and then all of a sudden, I 51 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:52,360 Speaker 1: see Captain Kirk into space. I go, all right, maybe 52 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:54,519 Speaker 1: I can do this. All right, I still haven't heard 53 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: back yet, and it was Thanksgiving. I get this letter going, 54 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 1: you've been aftd. I'm going, oh wow, Now I have 55 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 1: to tell my wife. So I haven't told my wife 56 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 1: yet because you never want to fight twice, right, So 57 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 1: here we go. I go ahead and let her know, 58 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 1: and she understands the person I am, and that it's 59 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:21,799 Speaker 1: going to happen whether she likes it or not. And 60 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:24,960 Speaker 1: I went ahead and signed the contract in December and 61 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:26,840 Speaker 1: waited for my day. 62 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 2: You bought your ticket. I don't suppose you can give 63 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 2: me a bullpop figureund how much it cost. 64 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, so back in the day you weren't allowed to say. 65 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 1: But it's been published and everything else out there. So 66 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 1: it's a million dollar Disney World eat ticket ride. If 67 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 1: you're old enough to remember. 68 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 2: A million bucks a million bucks well spent in my opinion. 69 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 2: Once he got accepted, did you have to do you 70 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 2: much training? 71 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:52,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a whopping two and a half days. 72 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 1: Make sure you get your doctor to approve you. You 73 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 1: got to remember, I'm sixty years old. I'm not in 74 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 1: shape anymore. Used to be an athlete. 75 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 2: But yeah, your flight was on August for twenty twenty two. 76 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:06,280 Speaker 2: How did you feel the night before? Could you sleep 77 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 2: at all? 78 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 1: Very excited? Actually, I was very much looking into it. 79 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 1: There was no reservations whatsoever, zero fear. 80 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:19,479 Speaker 2: So you walk into the capsule on the day and 81 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 2: then there's takeoff. We've all seen footage of a takeoff before. 82 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 2: It looks bloody, hectic. 83 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:27,280 Speaker 1: New Shepherd is clear the town. He is heading to space. 84 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:31,440 Speaker 2: God speedsitanium feather. Within a few minutes of takeoff, you're 85 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:34,839 Speaker 2: in space, about one hundred kilometers above the mean sea level. 86 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 2: You get to unbuckle from your seat, experience weightlessness. Tell 87 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 2: me what that's like. 88 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:43,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, so this is the question that always comes out, 89 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:47,160 Speaker 1: So what is it like? So I'll tell you right 90 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 1: as fast as I can. It is exactly opposite what 91 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,680 Speaker 1: you think. Your takeoff is slow and you have no 92 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 1: idea of speed other than the little readout in front 93 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 1: of you in a class, zipping by every once in 94 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 1: a while by your big window. It just you're not 95 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:12,320 Speaker 1: feeling anything. A very minimal G fours at two and 96 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:15,320 Speaker 1: a half minutes. Right before you hit the Carmen line, 97 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 1: which was the one hundred kilometers, you get a big boom. 98 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:26,560 Speaker 1: We checked the booster. You are now free to unbuckle 99 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:31,160 Speaker 1: float around for about three minutes. I don't care. I've 100 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 1: been diving for forty years. It is not like I expected. 101 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:43,240 Speaker 1: It is way better, way better. I just I loved it. 102 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:47,080 Speaker 1: Of course, in the movies everything looks like slow motion 103 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:52,040 Speaker 1: when they pretend everything's in full speed. You high five somebody. 104 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:56,240 Speaker 1: You're going to do a few circles if you do so. 105 00:05:56,520 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 1: I was with the dude, perfect guy, and we had 106 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 1: a couple of things set up that we were going 107 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:06,360 Speaker 1: to do and didn't get to do it because we 108 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 1: were we're so excited on the trip and looking outside 109 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:13,839 Speaker 1: at the Earth, there was this phenomenal Hey. 110 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:15,360 Speaker 2: Stick around in just a moment. We're going to find 111 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:23,520 Speaker 2: out if Steve's trip into space changed his outlook on life. 112 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:27,159 Speaker 2: Welcome back, I'm chatting to Steve Young, who traveled into 113 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 2: space on a Blue Origin flight in twenty twenty two. Steve, 114 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 2: you got to stare back down at Earth from space? 115 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:37,040 Speaker 1: What did it look like? Yeah, I mean it was 116 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:40,320 Speaker 1: We're really just looking at the arch of the Earth. 117 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:42,960 Speaker 1: We're not getting to look at the entire Earth. That 118 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:46,080 Speaker 1: they're not high enough. But I can tell you is 119 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:50,640 Speaker 1: so mesmerizing. You just stop and you forget, and all 120 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:53,600 Speaker 1: you do is just take it all in Earth is 121 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:59,600 Speaker 1: white and brown, but that line that separates that in space, 122 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:04,200 Speaker 1: the blue is blue and space which is the blackest 123 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 1: black you've ever seen it. I cannot do it justice. 124 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:10,280 Speaker 2: Did this trip change your outlook on life at all? 125 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:13,040 Speaker 1: It did for a while. I mean it was just 126 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 1: amazing to be I was with people from Europe, Portugal, Egypt, 127 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:25,680 Speaker 1: a couple of more Americans besides myself, So you kind 128 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:29,800 Speaker 1: of take into perspective just here we are, just this 129 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:34,680 Speaker 1: little tiny planet. I want to get cheesy about it, 130 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:37,920 Speaker 1: but it's just at that moment, you feel like you 131 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 1: guys are the one team versus space, versus when you're 132 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 1: on Earth. You know, it's kind of what's going on 133 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 1: in time now, it just countries against countries, but at 134 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:53,160 Speaker 1: that moment, yeah, we were all one. 135 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:57,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, finally, Steve. Another Blue Origin flight is set to 136 00:07:57,360 --> 00:07:59,920 Speaker 2: take off in a couple of days. Katie Perry, Gail King, 137 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,320 Speaker 2: a few others are going up. What would your advice 138 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:02,760 Speaker 2: to them be? 139 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 1: Ah, the girls, all the girls are popular girls. Well, 140 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:16,960 Speaker 1: welcome to my club. And yeah, if y'all want to 141 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:17,840 Speaker 1: hang out, let me know. 142 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 2: Steve Young, congratulations on getting up there. What an incredible experience, 143 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:26,240 Speaker 2: and thank you so much for taking the time to 144 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:26,960 Speaker 2: tell us about it. 145 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:28,040 Speaker 1: Brother, I appreciate you. 146 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:31,000 Speaker 2: Steve Young, one of only seven hundred and something people 147 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:33,920 Speaker 2: have actually been into space. Tomorrow, weather permitting, Katie Perry 148 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 2: could join that list too. We'll have full coverage of 149 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:38,320 Speaker 2: her flight at news dot com dot a you in 150 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 2: the meantime. Thank you so much for listening. I'll chat 151 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:44,800 Speaker 2: to you again tomorrow. Follow or subscribe to from the 152 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:47,079 Speaker 2: newsroom wherever you get your podcasts.