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These are live pictures of West Texas Van Horn and Blue Origin's launch pad, New Shepard 38.

Let's listen in with brace for liftoff.

Six, five, four, command to start, two, one, zero.

5,000 feet.

Okay, you are watching live images of Blue Origin's NS38 New Shepard mission carrying the six latest astronauts, commercial passengers, to just above the Carmen line out of Van Horn, West Texas.

We've just hit max Q, the moment of maximum aerodynamic pressure or stress today.

on that vehicle.

The Blue Origin New Shepard design relies on its own BE3 PM engine, where the propellant is a mix of hydrogen and oxygen, the byproduct of which is water, for those chemistry nerds of you that are out there.

And Caro, we cover this because it is the

evidence of the development of commercial space.

You have six people on board.

Some of them have paid for the privilege.

We don't know how much because they don't disclose it.

Just for 60 seconds of weightlessness in space in what Blue Origin says are the biggest windows to ever go into space.

And by now this is almost becoming regular and 90 humans above the Carmen line have been flown by Blue Origin thus far, right?

So we're starting to see the cadence build up and where does that push Blue Origin in terms of its next steps in commercialization?

Again, Blue Origin is a multifaceted business.

What you're watching on your screen now is the combined vehicle makes its way up to that common line.

You have the third stage booster and then the capsule on top.

This is space tourism, essentially, right?