Michael Strahan Is Going to Space!

Michael Strahan will take one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind!

On Tuesday’s broadcast of “Good Morning America,” the co-anchor announced that he will be one of six crew members to travel to space via the Jeff Bezos-founded spaceflight service company Blue Origin.

The company’s third human flight will blast off December 9.

“Blue Origin, they approached me and they asked if I wanted to be a crew member,” Strahan told co-hosts Robin Roberts and George Stephanopoulos. “Without hesitation, I said yes.”

During the exciting segment, the former football player shared footage of him being measured for a flight suit that would fit his 6’5” frame.

Strahan’s journey into the cosmos is particularly meaningful for the journalist, as he reported in July on Blue Origin’s first human launch in Texas.

In fact, Strahan said watching the event inspired him to join the third human flight.

“I wanted to go to space,” he said. “I think just being there, at the first launch, it really was mind-blowing.”

“I believe that this is the way of being innovative, creative, pioneers in aviation, now space travel. And it’s going to take a while, but I do believe that it will bring a lot of technological breakthroughs and also innovations to us here on Earth. I just wanted to be a part of it.”

“I was really enamored by the first flight I saw,” he added.

Strahan will be joined by Laura Shepard Churchley, the daughter of Alan Shepard, the first American to fly to space.

While Strahan and Shepard Churchley are both honorary guests, the remaining four crew members — space industry executive and philanthropist Dylan Taylor, investor Evan Dick, Bess Ventures founder Lane Bess and his child, Cameron — paid for their seats on the flight.

Per GMA, Strahan will receive a stipend for his role as crew member, which will be donated to The Boys & Girls Club.