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82-year-old wally funk who trained to be an astronaut way back in the 1960s but never got to fly because shes a woman, and so now she is finally going to get her chance and also on board that 18-year-old, oliver daman, blue origins first paying customer, but actually his father paid for the trip because he just graduated from high school. those four have been here in west texas training for the last two days, and they are going to be riding on the new shepard sub orbital rocket system, a totally...

Good tuesday morning to you. craig melvin with my hallie jackson. back with our special coverage of the blue origin rocket launch and a new space race that just took one giant leap forward a short time ago. jeff bezos carved out his own slice of history at the edge of space. its part of the first unpiloted sub orbital flight with an all civilian crew and it came some 15 years to the day of that apollo moon landing. >> any moment we expect to hear from bezos and the folks that went to space along...

This week the uae released video of cars driving through rain that was created by scientists. they launched drones into the sky that zapped clouds with electricity. this caused droplets to clump together. and instead of evaporating in midair from the heat, the rain drops were large enough to reach the ground. it is the top of the hour and its always good to be with you. the delta variant is surging in all 50 states. st. louis and st. louis county are all set to bring back mask mandates. well d...

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Eyes good morning me deal. the new enormous rocket launch pad baikonur was finally finished after two years of feverish development and construction work. and the rocket had progressed to the point that test flights could begin. when you are seven was the worlds most powerful rocket at that time it was a masterpiece of soviet engineering. the first test launch was in may nine hundred fifty seven no one knew how the two hundred seventy ton colossus would behave. failed. the next test came a few w...

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Rebuttal, he labeled the new hampshire the fake washington post and demand it register as a lobbyist for amazon. the post operates independently of amazon though the news organization is personally owned by jeffrey p bezos, the founder and chief executive of amazon. so, the feud continues. it was a few years ago that jeff bezos went onto twitter to direct a message at the president about a rocket launch that he was sponsoring and he tried to tag it with a #senddonaldtospace. he did not mean that...

>> epic. it was probably the most exciting thing ive ever seen, literally, ever. >> the internet blowing up. musks cherry red tesla with a dummy headed for solar orbit. david bowie playing in a forever loop. ♪ ground control to major tom >> i could watch that over and over and over again. later, well have astronaut scott kelly and the former head of nasa to tell us how important the rocket launch was. were following big stories. less than 48 hours from a government shutdown if congress cant ...