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Its all part of the big picture. the fact that nasa stepped out of the process of contracting the way that it handled pentagon contracts, cost-plus contracts with a lot of scrutiny that was onerous, and let the likes of elon musk build their own rockets, retain their intellectual property and sell seats back to nasa, that was a brilliant way to start a true economic enterprise in lower earth orbit. thats what were seeing right now. when you get the capitalist system involved, costs get driven do...

Faith in holding an election simply for the sake of holding an election. particularly in conditions like this. which are, you know, not good ones for voting. >> also making headlines this morning, british billionaire richard branson made history becoming the first person to reach the edge of outer space in a rocket funded by his own company, virgin galactic. branson launched into space with three company employees, flying 53 miles above earth. it was the final test mission before virgin galactic...

Money had gone to nasa? >> hard to say, right? the investment, obviously, these were expectation that these flights were going to happen a lot sooner. i believe the original projections were around 2007. finally were on the cusp of that here in 2021. nasa, of course, has a history of delays in their program, so hard to say that if you had taken that money and put it into nasa, youd be, you know, youd get a return on it necessarily for the taxpayers, unfortunately, as far as, you know, hopefully ...

Bezos into space? the way bezos is doing it is different from what branson did. >> very different but i dont think it makes a difference who got there first. it is kind of amazing that both of them after all these years of planning and test flights and so on more or less in the same week, nine days apart or whatever it is theyll both be going. i dont think it matters who came first. whats interesting is to be able to see them back-to-back. maybe talk about bezos flight next week. that will be fu...

Unity attached to the belly of its mother ship. inside, richard branson, three other employees and two pilots climbing to 46,000 feet. then 45 minutes after lift-off. >> three, two, one, release, release, release. >> reporter: 3gs. >> passengers in the back have been cleared to unstrap. >> reporter: the moment branson has been dreaming of since he was a dream, the curvature of the earth and the darkness of space. >> looking down to a beautiful, beautiful earth. >> reporter: after three to four m...

Government found that night life was driving the infections. and one of the dutch closed their nightclubs. the french just opened theirs on friday. virtually all restrictions have now been lifted in france, but the president is expected to address the nation on monday, and with infections starting to creep back up, the french press is speculating that new measures could be on the table. eu countries are racing to immunize their population. 44% of adults in the european union are fully vaccinated...

Children will be growing up if a world where space travel is normal, where their next-door neighbor may have gone up to space and have their astronaut wings. this is really the dawn of a new era of space exploration and space travel. thats what so many of us have waited for, that final frontier to be open for the rest of us, so blue origin, virgin galactic and others are working so diligently to open the heavens for us. as we know, right now it costs a pretty penny to get there, but those that a...

Were all anticipating it. there will be a musical performance by khaled and a press conference where hopefully we will hear what this experience was like for branson. nearly two decades in the making, hes poured nearly a billion dollars into this endeavor. hes wanted to go to space, hes dreamed of going to space since he was a child. so were all very eager to hear what the experience was actually like for him. also hopefully well get more images of him inside that cabin. brian, i want to point o...

Wonderful sight. its a way to become inspired about our space ship earth and all of us being passengers on it and in fact were not just along for the ride. weve got to pilot it in the right direction. so that environmental consciousness i think is valuable and the more people that go into space, the more we want to push the boundaries of getting far out of the frontiering back to the moon, to nearby asteroids and eventually to mars. arthel: keeping in mind that bransons was a test flight with ho...

Literally. lifting off. there is a lot of hype about billionaire richard branson taking a trip to the edge of space a few hours from now. its really a space race between branson and bezos even though they play nice. there is a lot of ego attached to this. what do you make of the hype? >> yes, and we now know the launch is slated for 10:30 a.m. eastern time. delayed a little bit due to weather. whenever it happens we will be showing it live. its a milestone in the space race, even though? partly ...