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This is despite a profit drop to Sh765 million from Sh1.4 billion.

Firm attributed the performance to the prevailing market conditions

Jeff bezos launches on blue origins new shepard vehicle in a few days in texas is a much quieter affair, most likely. theyll have fewer press, fewer events, fewer things for people to enjoy when theyre actually on-site, but thats just kind of the culture and the if iphiloso of these two companies. blue origin does things slowly and quietly, virgin galactic much louder and flashier, just like their founders. the other key difference is the two different types of spacecrafts and the difference sp ...

Completely within a mindset of national boundaries. so these perspectives, these overview effect as nasa describes it, in my field we call it a cosmic perspective, it can change you. and it generally only changes you for the better. it makes you more hucmble. it makes you more respectful of earth as an ecosystem that sustains us. its so easy to think about your own little circumstances and your own moment and your own place. its one of the sort of benefits of having gone into space in the first ...

So spacexs concept is, we want to send people places as an effort to push this boundary, push this space exploration frontier. that said, im delighted this could be a new frontier for the world. it should have been happening decades ago, decades ago. it should have been 60 years before private enterprise did what nasa did back in 1961. more power to all of them. >> but is there a gain in knowledge that comes from to going boldly where hundreds of gone before? >> can i invoke this snhere? i just ...

I assume there are good relations between nasa and richard bransons company, blue origin, and we know with elon musk, of course, because they are the principal funder and customer for spacex. >> reporter: yes, youre right, fareed. the faa highly involved in the laurchl here today. in fact, the whole reason that richard branson was able to board this flight, accelerate his timeline for his first space flight was because the faa granted virgin galactic an updated license for what they call space f...

The pilots are still responsible for firing the rocket engine, for turning it off, and for deploying that feathering system that allows the spaceship to re-enter the earths atmosphere. if youre a test pilot, this is a fun spaceship to fly because youre in control of it, which is why so many nasa space astronauts love fly the space shuttle. the down side is it can be a little more dangerous like we saw with the two shuttle accidents and we saw inner accident in 2014 with virgin galactic when it w...

Center in new mexico. u what is your sense of that plane as it was taking off, how fast does it go and why do pilots love flying it? >> they love flying it because theyre actually flying it. much like the space shuttle, this is a pretty much fully analog plane in the sense that these pilots are the ones firing those rocket engines, turning them off and then deploying the space planes feathering system to allow it to re-enter the earths atmosphere. you know what i was thinking about, it was ten y...