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All right. we have a full slate of guests to help break down everything we are about to see. joining me now, the founder and ceo of a new tech platform to advance women. she is also a "new york times" best selling author of "how to make a spaceship." the books forward was written by richard branson. we have a professor of theoretical physics the author of the recent "new york times" best seller "the god equation, the quest for a theory of everything." thanks to both of you for being here this mo...

Inequality. >> look at the new book about zuckerberg and facebook. teddy and nicholas, thank you both. about five to six minutes before the real action aboard unity 22, thats when the mother ship is going to let go of the actual space plane carrying richard branson and his fellow passengers. lets go to rachel crane, cnns space and innovation correspondent who has been covering this beat for years and knows it better than anybody. rachel, youve been waiting and looking to the sky. at this point t...

Three other passengers who work for virgin galactic, and then the two pilots. theyve already had several test flights with just the pilots. this is the first time they have branson and the passengers on board. as you know, its all about getting to the edge of space, which nasa and the pentagon say is 15 miles up. theres been back-and-forth. the bezos teams that is space is up 62 miles, so the bezos team is suggesting that branson and his passengers wont be real astronauts, theyll have an asteris...

Planet without borders, without boundaries, without walls. and the hope is that well all come away with an appreciation for the need to really hold onto this planet. its all we got, and try to do all we can to protect it, especially with climate change and everything else. so a lot of very lofty concepts and thoughts are a part of what branson is doing here. >> yeah, i want to bring that up. when you look at richard bransons wealth, one of his biggest causes is climate, and climate change. and t...

But it certainly seems to be less of a public priority than it used to be. >> right, it definitely seems to be moving that way. and youre right, there is tension. you know, some people ive talked to recently when i told them about bransons flight, bezoss flight coming up, theyre like, read the room. is this really the time for this? but this is what these very wealthy men want to do and theyve managed to do it. branson, for his part, says that he thinks that space belongs to everyone. that every...

Taxiing, presumably getting ready. at the very least were getting closer to the point where we will see some kind of takeoff. neil, what do you think of that idea that people like branson and others have talked about, that maybe if more people get up into space, they will realize how fragile the ecosystem is, how small we are, the chance -- we tend to have a view that nature is benign. nature is going to take care of us. the more perspective you gain, you realize nature is just physics, chemistr...

Beautiful, beautiful thing. congratulations to our wonderful team at virgin galactic, 17 years of hard, hard work to get us this far. howie: i didnt realize that we were actually going to be able to hear from mr. branson in mid-flight. that is you amazing and also makes my point about it being a bit of a television show. jeff, lets pick it up, please. not sure if we still have audio contact. >> oh, yeah. howie, yeah, i think the point you were making before we heard from richard branson is that ...

The rocket engine has ignited. this is the moment that branson and his team have been waiting for. brian, i have to pause. i have to take this in. this is really an incredible moment here. this is what branson and his team -- >> viewers, what youre watching around the world, trust me, youll see it in a moment. rachel is a few seconds ahead of the stream youre seeing on your television. rachel is telling us on the ground she knows that unity 22 has successfully fired its rocket. rachel, whats nex...

Branson and his virgin galactic crew gearing up for tomorrows groundbreaking launch. >> fire! >> reporter: the british billionaire set to lift off just nine days before jeff bezos takes his blue origin rocket to the edge of space. the 70-year-old daredevil will board virgin galactics unity spaceplane for its fourth crewed test flight earlier than expected. the revved up timeline for branson sparking safety concerns. >> every single test flight weve done, the last 22, have had people on board, an...

[ inaudible ] elon musk, bezos, branson, and other people. theyre kicking it off. its not just about their being able to sell tickets and make money. its about the innovation thats going to come out of this. >> the delta coronavirus variant is ripping through the united states putting unvaccinated communities in extreme risk. well talk about that, next. plus, haiti is grappling with chaos and confusion as the motive behind the presidents assassination is, still, unknown. we will have the lates...