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A third seat on the spacecraft is being auctioned off. 0ur science correspondent rebecca morelle reports. heading to the edge of space. this is the new shepard rocket. so far, its only flown with mannequins. now its ready for its first real passengers, and jeff bezos, who owns the spacecraft, has announced he will be on board, along with his brother. it changes your relationship with this planet, with humanity. its one earth. i want to go on this flight because its a thing ive wanted to do all m...

Our science correspondent rebecca morelle reports. heading to the edge of space. this is the new shepard rocket. so far, its only flown with mannequins. now its ready for its first real passengers, and jeff bezos, who owns the spacecraft, has announced he will be on board, along with his brother. it changes your relationship with this planet, with humanity. its one earth. i want to go on this flight because its a thing ive wanted to do all my life. the rocket system will reach 100 kilometres abo...

Ive wanted to do all my life. the rocket system will reach 100 kilometres above the earth, where passengers will experience about three minutes of weightlessness, and see the blackness of space and earths covered horizon. in the future, anyone will be able to take a ride for around £150,000 a ticket. and its not the only company to test if space tourism is commercially viable. sir richard bransons virgin galactic space plane is expected to carry paying customers by the end of the year. spacex. ...

Venus Aerospace Corp is pursuing the development of a spaceplane that will take people from Los Angeles to Tokyo in an hour.

Read more about Space plane start-up promises one-hour rides to anywhere on Earth on Business Standard. Venus Aerospace Corp., a startup pursuing a hypersonic space plane, is aiming to ferry people from Los Angeles to Tokyo in about an hour

Recovery efforts from hurricane harvey. heres what some of our affiliates are covering. fox 35 in orlando. space x executes a new mission ahead of the incoming storm. it launched of space plane. this is the second time space x has launched a national security payload in the first time launching the x-37 b. fox 5, all public students in new york will be offered a free lunch. school starts today there, about three quarters of the citys 1.1 million students qualify for free or reduced price lunches...

Recovery efforts from hurricane harvey. heres what some of our affiliates are covering. fox 35 in orlando. space x executes a new mission ahead of the incoming storm. it launched of space plane. this is the second time space x has launched a national security payload in the first time launching the x-37 b. fox 5, all public students in new york will be offered a free lunch. school starts today there, about three quarters of the citys 1.1 million students qualify for free or reduced price lunches...

In nasa time frame 15 to 20 years is relatively quickly. old is new again? its been really interesting to watch how new technologies are also old technologies and we just had the great report coming out of houston. your reflection on that, youve been in simulations using that apollo 11 approach. >> right. right. and actually my last flight was aboard a russian capsule spacecraft, so we launched and landed under a parachute in a capsule. it kind of is going backwards to 60s technology to do a cap...

Following weeks of saber rattling and missile tests from kim jong-un. the state run news agency reports the american kim hak song is believed to be the fourth u.s. citizen detained in north korea right now. the regime says he was doing business with pyongyang university science and technology. the air forces newest reusable space plane landed at nasa space center this morning and there wasnt a soul on board. the orbital test vehicle, the most advanced reentry spacecraft ever designed is unmanned...

This new elevator takes the trip down to 12 miles. you go to the top and launch off a rocket there. >> 12 miles is a shortcut. the concept is put you at a severn level where you dont need thrust. >> you will take it up and stack it up 12 miles high. and there would be a space plane or a rocket and you are over much of the thick parts and there is not a lot of resistance but you are a third of a way up or tenth of a way up. so it would be cheaper for those vehicle. they would have hangers to take...