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Since are you in studio, lets start with you. >> what an amazing thing to have witnessed. we basically saw the beginning of what will be commercial tourism in space. the rocket launch was so flawless it almost looks like a computer graphic generated launch they wanted to use as an example. the being weightless for a few minutes. i had the chance to be weightless once on a flight, a very exciting feeling. i briefly thought i heard bezos said it was similar to swimming when you were weightless and...

Week. im bill hemmer. >> sandra: i think we should kick off with a rocket launch every day. good way to start tuesday morning. im sandra smith. more and more local officials are considering reinstating the indoor mask mandates with covid cases on the rise again across the country. >> bill: jackie heinrich begins live on capitol hill. good morning. >> hello. good morning. the delta variant spreading and stubbornly low vaccination rates among key groups some cities are flouting cdc mask guidance o...

Bezos on this historic rocket launch. the crews expect today walk out of the training center any moment. joining us now for all of this and our coverage in this hour, cnn aerospace analyst miles obrien, astro physics professor at the university of rochester adam frank. and city university of new york, thank you for being with us. we appreciate it. miles, it is great to see you. miles, youve seen a lot of space flights. this reeling i is kind of the beginning, obviously a lot of attention is paid...

And here they emerging from the space capsule you can see wally funk, now the oldest person to travel to space, looking fairly happy as she leaves the capsule. mr bezos had this to say after landing back on earth. the most profound peice of it from he was looking out at the earth and looking at the earths atmosphere. every astronaut for everybody who has been out into space, they say this, it changes them and they look at it and they are amazed and awestruck by the earth and its beauty but also ...

Upended their lives to come out here to this remote stretch of desert in west texas to try to fulfill jeff bezos founding mission. but also, if you talk to the blue origin employees, they really truly believe that this is about more than just space tourism. yes, there are paying customers. yes, they want to celtic et cetera to space. but it is also about that grand vision that weve been talking about, leaving a better future for our grandchildren and moving industry like mining, things that are ...

Taking flight at 9:00 a.m. eastern. now to kristin also here at the launch site. >> and this is a moment that jeff bezos and blue origin have been working towards for 21 years, the first time that people are actually riding up into space on one of their own rockets. these four crew members have been training here at launch site one for the last two days and now they will be lifting off on the new shepherd system which is essentially a reusable rocket system, very different from what we saw virgi...

And here they emerging from the space capsule. you should be able to see wally funk at the back there, now the oldest person to travel to space, looking fairly happy as she leaves the capsule. she had this to say after landing back on earth. so, when i went up this morning, the noise was not quite as bad and we went right on up and i saw darkness that i was going to see the world, we were quite high enough and i felt great. and ifelt like i wasjust laying down. i wasjust laying down and i was go...

What you are looking at right now. thank you for the moment, stay with us. i want to cross live to the scene in texas. we are looking at the capsule of blue 0rigin. it is the capsule of blue 0rigin. it is the launch rockets that will take jeff bezos and three others into space. sophie is there for us. we now thinkjust a space. sophie is there for us. we now think just a fewer space. sophie is there for us. we now thinkjust a fewer minutes until they take off?— they take off? yes, three minutes...

13 July 2021, 08:07 pm (Photo : NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona) This illustration shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the asteroid’s surface. China is planning a rocket launch targeting an asteroid with a slim chance of hitting Earth.  The planned rocket launch will make use of more than 20 of Chinas Long March 5 rockets to divert an asteroid named Bennu away from the planet. Specifically, scientists plan to use the rockets to pus...

There is quite a contrast in the news these days. the need to cover the influence is growing. it is very visible right now with branson halfway to the edge of space and bezos game ready to go. we have guests standing by as we await the rocket launch. now hes launching his own media venture called "the st stratosphere." nick, this is a moment you personally have been waiting for for several years. what are your impressions of the day thus far? >> i mean, im watching this sort of simultaneously. i...