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>> what we are trying to learn is how to detect a threat that would commend. rest assured that rock is not a threat and it will not be a threat after. >> julie: dart will slam into the target asteroid at 15,000 miles an hour. it is going to be smashing into this asteroid at 15,000 miles per hour. this is incredible. it is over $300 million to come up with this plan, the space plane. what you think? >> kayleigh: its amazing ingenuity. so impressive to read on what these guys are doing. there will...

>> i am currently working at a competitor for spacex and we are also striving to ensure that more and more people have access and trying to bring that cost down. we are planning to offer up space plane so that well be able to come back on the runway. much like the shuttle did in the shuttle days. and keep the cost of launch low like bring that cost down. thats the biggest so well continue to work on bringing the countdown last producing the vehicles in a greater way. so those costs come down as ...

Downing street says its crucial that they do. coming up: the seaside town desperate for visitors to stay for longer than just a holiday. coming up on the bbc news channel: with restrictions lifted, manchester is ready to host a capacity crowd once again as englands cricketers take on pakistan in their t20 decider later. the founder of amazon, jeff bezos, is preparing to blast off from the texas desert in the next hour, in his rocket ship new shepherd. hes hoping to reach the edge of space, and m...

Tourism. i am not sure their end point is the same, because you just look at the different architectures. blue origin has an architecture of a rocket capsule similar to nasa, so they are going to go to the international space station, to the moon, probably onto mars. you like a virgin galactic, it is a space plane that goes up 45,000 feet. the mothership. and then releases it, goes up into suborbital flight. on that one, you can imagine a transcontinental industry where you can travel from new y...

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...

People who say they go into space that they come back changed. i cant wait to see what its going to do to me. >> and we have lift off. well blue origin has flown 15 unmanned test, flights this will be the first to carry passengers. baseless will take seat number six, the simulator earnings that probe of the capsule that will carry all four, 62 miles high, for three minutes of weightlessness. and six massive windows. >> and as you are sending, essentially a feels like deer this falling away from....

With sort of public/private partnerships is extraordinary. is this -- how do you see the various companies in this place? theres blue origin, theres spacex, who do you think is sort of poll position to really make the biggest difference when it comes to mainstreaming this? >> you know what it will shake itself out, but what we have to look at is that this is not the origin of launch services. right? we have companies like lockheed and boeing. theres a lot of companies around the world that offer...

St should be a top u.s. priority to get children back to in-person learning in classrooms in the fall. good morning, this is "early start" monday morning. im christine romans. >> im laura jarrett. so we all learned in school about the first dog in space, the first chimp in space, the first man. now we hold the first billionaire in space. >> release, release, release. clean release. ignition, good rocket motor. theres mock one. >> branson launching into space in a supersonic space plane he help...

Supersonic space plane with wings and takes off and lands on the runway. branson launch took about 90 minutes in total. jeff bezos flight only going to take about 11 minutes but it will go much higher than what we saw virgin galactics space plane do. it will reach the carmen line, internationally recognized boundary of space. the u.s. says richard branson reached it yesterday, 50 miles above the earths surface and he is now an astronaut. >> how often, kris tin, will we be seeing these flights? i...

Commission. now when that fell through in the senate, he saw an opportunity that this investigation still needed to move forward and of course speaker pelosi made it clear she wanted to get those answers, too. but hes making it very clear here that he realizes republicans are opposed to some of this. there are still questions about who mccarthy is going to appoint to lead the republicans on this committee. but one thing is very clear to me, benny thompson is not mincing words that if republicans...