His daughter, Krista Dibsie, 31, accompanied by her husband and 4-year-old son, Justin, videotaped the liftoff. Justin held his hands over his ears, his mouth wide open.
As Dibsie craned her head skyward, tears rolled down her cheeks, and she said quietly: "There goes Dad. Love you, Dad."
"Now I'm nervous for him," she said. "I wasn't before but now he's up there and gosh, he's out of this world. I can't believe it."
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Olsen, who holds advanced degrees in physics and materials science, defended his presence in the capsule as a necessary step in the evolution of space travel.
"I would hope that my flight would help, if just to make space flight more routine," Olsen said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press on the eve of the flight.
You know the funny thing is that he's right. He's doing a lot more to help the cause of getting regular people into space than any of those snotty Astronauts (who didn't pay their way, and feel somehow that they deserve taxpayers to pay for them) do.
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