1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:01,960 Speaker 1: Mark Rockett had a very good weekend. He became the 2 00:00:01,960 --> 00:00:04,040 Speaker 1: first Kiwi in space when he took the latest Blue 3 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:07,320 Speaker 1: Origin flight from West Texas. This is the Bezos Rocket 4 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:10,240 Speaker 1: of course. Anyway, Mark Rocket's founder of Kia Aerospaces. Literally, 5 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:12,320 Speaker 1: you just arride back in the country this morning, Mark morning, 6 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 1: Good morning, Mike. I know you've got an MDA on 7 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:16,759 Speaker 1: the price, but was it worth it? 8 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:21,239 Speaker 2: I sure was. It was an incredible experience. You know, 9 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 2: I had the black and white outline of what to 10 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:26,079 Speaker 2: expect to get all those colors painted in was just 11 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:27,200 Speaker 2: absolutely incredible. 12 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 1: The eleven minute thing disappointing over too soon or what. 13 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:34,960 Speaker 2: It's a pretty intense ten or eleven minutes, Mike, and 14 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:37,600 Speaker 2: you've got a couple of days of training, so yeah, 15 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:41,240 Speaker 2: no disappointment there at all. I mean, it's just absolutely epic. 16 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:44,160 Speaker 2: You know, you buckle in and you're riding a rocket 17 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 2: to space and to feel that acceleration. It just gains 18 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:49,840 Speaker 2: more and more momentum until you're going three four hundred 19 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 2: chimeters an hour, which kind of keeps you on your 20 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:55,320 Speaker 2: edge your seat a little bit, and then the main 21 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 2: engine shuts off and you then get a stage separation, 22 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:01,520 Speaker 2: which is a pretty hard clunk as most of your 23 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:04,200 Speaker 2: spaceship drops below you, the booster goes back to Earth 24 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:07,200 Speaker 2: and the capsule keeps going, and then pretty quickly you're 25 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:10,320 Speaker 2: you're in a zero gravity environment and you can float 26 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 2: up off your seat and look out the window and 27 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:13,240 Speaker 2: see space. 28 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 1: What's the best bit is that the floating? 29 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:16,039 Speaker 2: Is it? 30 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:18,160 Speaker 1: The view? Is it the thrust up? 31 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 2: Is it? 32 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:19,279 Speaker 1: The prep? 33 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean the whole experience was was phenomenally phenomenal 34 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 2: when you put it all together, But certainly, you know, 35 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:27,320 Speaker 2: some of the highlights was, you know, to ride a 36 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:30,119 Speaker 2: rock up into space and to feel that those sort 37 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 2: of speeds accelerations, and then certainly the icing on the 38 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 2: cake was to unbuckle and sort of put my feet 39 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 2: backwards and did a backwards flip pad of my seat 40 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:41,120 Speaker 2: and started to float around. And then then to see that, 41 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 2: you know, the darkness of space, you know, it is 42 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 2: quite incredible, you know, I mean you see photos of 43 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 2: the Apollo program and other astronauts doing stuff, and to 44 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 2: actually see that the blackness, I mean, it's it's really 45 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 2: intense and photos don't quite capture the emotional elements to it. 46 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 1: Katie Perry started singing, did you. 47 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 2: Sing no, no, not this time? 48 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:06,200 Speaker 1: Okay, would you do it again? 49 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:10,200 Speaker 2: For sure? Yeah? I mean Blue Origin are an amazing company. 50 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 2: I've got a really good safety record. Is also an 51 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,960 Speaker 2: escape system which puts a bit more comfort in your 52 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:20,040 Speaker 2: mind as you are going up. Yeah. I think Blue 53 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 2: Origin offer an amazing and amazing package. 54 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 1: Could anyone do it pretty much? 55 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean there's a wide range of ages and yeah, 56 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:30,880 Speaker 2: it's pretty pretty accessible. 57 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:33,240 Speaker 1: Good on you, mate, Well done. Welcome back Mark Rockett, 58 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 1: who's with a key Era space. But he paid the money. 59 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 1: I was just thinking what he Reckon's worth. I mean 60 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 1: I asked Ryan earlier. He said, you do it for 61 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 1: one hundred thousand bucks. 62 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:43,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought Ryan revealed himself to be quite a 63 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 2: big spender there. 64 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 1: Ryan's Ryan's a bit like that. You'd ask him a 65 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:47,800 Speaker 1: few probing questions Ryan gives himself. 66 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 2: I look affoard to going out with Ryan and maybe 67 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:51,200 Speaker 2: on Thursday night at the Radio Awards. 68 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 1: Ryan's a great time at the Radio Awards, or so 69 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:54,840 Speaker 1: I heard. 70 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 2: For more from the mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to 71 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 2: news talks it'd be from six am weekdays, or follow 72 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 2: the podcast on iHeartRadio.