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A weeks worth of food and water, radio, flashlight, batteries and first aid kit are a good start to learn more, visit safetyactioncenter.pge.com just two months from now the billionaire space race will take a new turn. the worlds first all-civilian mission to orbit elon musks spacex crew dragon will carry four civilians on a three-day journey to an altitude higher than the international space station, actually about four times higher than bezos and bransons mission. the owner of shift for paym...

Weight and lower risk and this is still a multi-year path before they are not holding auctions and making media spectacles. >> brad, i thought it was interested in the interview that our rachel crane did with the crew of four now astronauts, including jeff bezos yesterday morning. she asked bezos about the criticism that many have hurled at him and branson and said this is just a joy ride for the rich, should you be using your resources more for crises on planet earth right now and he said you c...

Founded in 2000, blue origin. his trip is going to come nine days after bransons flight, which wasnt really that -- you know, i mean, you know, i mean, its cool. but, you know, is this space travel? you know, we have got one of the biggest brains to help us on this. neil degrasse tyson. first of all, his newest book is "cosmic queries." and im just happy to see you, brother. i am always grateful you are in my life. i am grateful for what you are doing to us. you look like you are circling the co...

Its a mile away. where is the moon? 30 feet away. where is the international space station? its orbiting .38 above the surface. where is bezos and branson? they are just less than .8 above the surface of that globe. so what matters here is no one is doing what theyre doing, so i dont have a problem with it. provided, the future of that exercise is that space tourism gets democktized, gets cheap enough to save up a few vacation dollars and then go up yourself. then there would be a whole new mark...

Towards earth. so that, everyone in orbit at all times is weightless. whereas, on these suborbital flights, they are only weightless from the time from when they shut off their rockets, until they fall far enough for the atmosphere to sta start slowing them down. then, they begin to feel sort of g-forces of that and its only a couple of minutes. so, these are levels of space travel, yes. and a point i made on twitter in the last couple of days is, if you take a schoolroom globe of the earth and ...

House, and those texas legislators its a reminder to everybody get your shots that way you can minimize it and make it like the cold if you do get it. >> bret: yeah, even the tokyo olympics could be in jeopardy we are told as we reported earlier. juan, now to you. >> juan: tom brady at the white house today to celebrate the super bowl with the buccaneers and president biden and brady and biden they agreed a lot of people didnt expect them to win and a 40% still dont think they won. >> i heard th...

Jeff bezos is going to ride a rocket for 11 minutes. more than 2,000 miles an hour. almost getting to space. and i know we keep saying space. hes not really going to space. doesnt that matter? not really. youre going to space in that rocket. hes scheduled to take off tomorrow morning on a rocket designed by the company he founded in 2000 blue origin. the trip comes nine days after bransons flight that wasnt really -- its cool but is this space travel? weve got one of the biggest brains to help u...

Explain the carmen line. its not a term i had heard much about before, but obviously given -- they pointed out richard branson did not go above the carmen line. its an imaginary line. >> it is the internationally recognized boundary of space. but the u.s. government and the u.s. military, the faa, they recognize it a little bit lower. so virgin galactic says, hey, we were all astronauts. we became astronauts because we crossed the threshold that the u.s. government recognizes in space. blue orig...

Bezos has been spending a billion dollars a year in pursuit of the vision and until today they didnt have much to show for it. >> brad stone, does he have a plan to make this more affordable over time? is there a plan, a hard plan because, listen, lets be frank, for the vast majority of people watching right now, this is far, far, far out of their reach. the cost of these things, same for bransons virgin galactic. >> right. well this is jeff bezos. he always had a plan. he had a plan in 1994 for...

This isnt a competition. this is about building a road to space so that future generations can do incredible things in space. >> were excited to join the club. >> that was jeff bezos, of course, the founder of amazon. they were being a little coy about the race part of the billionaire space race happening now. you have bezos and his brother traveling with the oldest and youngest people ever to enter space about a week after richard branson and his crew arrived safely from their space mission. br...