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Higher. does that matter? when the world looked up at the first private launch, the only thing we saw were words virgin galactic. >> i think youre right. i dont think it matters. honestly, i think bezos and blue origin team took such backlash for comment on friday suggesting branson isnt going high enough, theyre not really astronauts. there was such backlash that you saw yesterday bezos come out, congratulate branson, say he hopes to soon join the club. in other words, yes, you made it to space...

>> a lot of people have said, everybody who is super rich will go a couple time. look whats happening on mt. everest. theyve had to put ladders in to get them through faster. when you do that, you march by the frozen dead bodies that went before. it cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to mount the campaign. so i dont think youll see anything different here except that space tourism is much more pleasant and safer than that. >> it was interesting to see branson had kids there as part of the med...

Time now for the good stuff. british billionaire richard branson has become the first person to ride into space. bransons historic flight bringing astro tourism a step closer to reality and beat out rival jeff bezos who will fly in eight days. christian fisher live from new mexico with more on this. this is a test launch coming days before jeff bezos. whats going to set his apart? or is this same old same old, kristen? >> reporter: hi, brianna. in eight days from blue origin and jeff bezos is di...

St should be a top u.s. priority to get children back to in-person learning in classrooms in the fall. good morning, this is "early start" monday morning. im christine romans. >> im laura jarrett. so we all learned in school about the first dog in space, the first chimp in space, the first man. now we hold the first billionaire in space. >> release, release, release. clean release. ignition, good rocket motor. theres mock one. >> branson launching into space in a supersonic space plane he help...

Writing, cant wait to join the club. >> i hope he has as extraordinary an experience as we do. >> reporter: bransons hope is that the quarter of a million dollar ride will come down, making it possible for others. >> then you and a friend will be able to go to space. its an exciting, i think, opportunity for people around the world, which has never existed before. >> reporter: a lifelong dream fulfill and a pledge to open space for everyone. >> our thanks to nbcs tom costello for that report. ...

Community policing, we can intervene before the violence erupts, at least thats been the consensus in our experience, and community violence intervention programs have shown to reduce crime in some cities by up to 60%. fourthly, our strategy to fund other vital services. >> okay, the president at the white house moments ago. well continue to monitor and bring you any new developments as we get them. meantime, in eight days, amazon founder jeff bezos hopes to join the billionaire space club. hi...

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Reasons i run into patients are really -- and i think there may have been an overemphasis on political reasons. a lot of people just have jobs and theyre not thinking about this stuff and theyre not watching the news every day. we were under the impression in late spring that we were done. i wasnt even really testing patients for covid in april and may. and on may 10th, the delta variant was detected in branson. and within a month we exploded. so i think part of it is we are a little bit behind ...

Crash back in 2014 led skeptics to doubt whether or not this flight would ever take off, but luckily for branson and space enthusiasts around the globe this test flight was described as flawless. take a listen. >> reporter: a historic flight nearly two decades in the making. billionaire richard branson becoming the first person to take a trip on a self-funded spacecraft. >> release release release. >> reporter: captured and broadcast on live stream all taking place in about an hour. virgin galac...

Mexico. >> christine and laura, richard bransons maiden space flight went off without a hitch. the company saying it was a complete success, and nobody more excited about that than richard branson himself. i had the opportunity to speak with the companys founder and new astronaut shortly following this space flight. take a listen to what he had to say. >> ive dreamt of going into space since i was a kid. ive always pictured what it would be like, and it was just far more extraordinary than i cou...