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Interest. someone like me obviously cant afford that. you can tell people want to experience this. howie: maybe theyll let journalists ride along at some point. bezos told a ticket for $28 million for a tourist on his. this particular flight, other than the pilots, has virgin employees on-board. but the spacecraft has successfully done this a handful of times. is there something other than bransons out-sized presence and of course were all interested in that, hes a very colorful entrepreneur, th...

Musk and branson have known each other for quite some time, and branson tweeted to musk, thank you, youve always been such a supportive friend. yes, there is a competitive spirit. what branson and spacex is doing is quite different. th they are focused on getting to the moon mission, but they are today doing just a portal mission. they went just 50 miles above earth, but a win is for the entire space community. its all about democratizing space, opening up the heavens for the rest of us, and acc...

People to space so they can be fundamentally impacted by seeing the curvature of the earth and getting a sense that we on measure measure ship earth are really being absorbed by everybody around the globe with global warming climate change and what have you. richard branson is a big environmentalist. like i said, brian, its really hard to overemphasize what this moment means to branson, his team, his friends, his family and for space reporters like myself, we have been following this since its i...

And splash down in water. maybe you could walk our viewers through how this will make a landing, i think this landing will get more attention than previous ones because of bransons presence on the spacecraft. >> yeah. so this is -- its sort of almost two aircraft, if you will. it took off like an airplane would and that space rocket et that ended up going to -- rocket that ended up going to space was in the middle of a twin fuselage airplane. once it hit the 50,000-foot mark, then the rocket was...

These enormous windows, we will be able to lock at earth. >> reporter: if successful it will edge out fellow billionaire jason goff who is set to ride his own companys rocket into space in the coming days. they have jockeyed for the astronomical bragging rights that come with being first. branson insisted there is no space race and the missions are different. >> the kind of experience can the two companies are almost as different as chalk and cheese. so we dont see ourselves as a direct competit...

Apologize, i have to jump for a second and go to richard branson. branson. >> thank you for performing. we love -- hello. [laughter] >> wheres his lovely wife. come up. come on there. right. [ applause ] >> hes had quite a month. their beautiful new baby will be born this month and this beautiful baby was born a couple of years ago. and thank you for letting him come with us. i would also like to thank my

His own sentiments wishing good luck to branson. by the way, things are kicking up here. we got a band playing. it is going to get loud and is part of the festivities here. >> i cannot think of a better person to share this time with than you and your enthusiasm for the benefits the space race actually brings to humanity other than just the event itself. tom, well stay close to you. tom costello is at spaceport america in new mexico. back on earth, things are a little unsettled. the big lie ke...

This morning a new chapter in human space flight. sir richard branson winning the space of the billionaires. it could one day lead to civilian rides to space for paying passengers, if they can afford it. >> reporter: under a blazing sun, a new age of space travel lifted off from the new mexico desert today. virgin galactics unity attached to the belly of its mothership. inside virgin founder richard branson, three other virgin employers and two pilots. then 45 minutes after liftoff. >> 3, 2, 1, ...

>> talk to me about the birth of private space flight. there are some who argue if we had funded nasa on an ongoing basis maybe this wouldnt be necessary. we have elon musk, richard branson, jeff bezos. theyre all a little bit different. what is bransons motivation? he was one of the earliest in it. >> it really does go back to these incredible dreams that they had, really launched or sparked by the space race and seeing apollo 11 land on the moon in 1969. for richard branson i think he was 18 o...

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