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You have said? >> i would have given ate a 50/50 honestly. were here today. its a great day. just look forward to the future. howie: so were looking at live pictures of branson and the crew and the employees inside the capsule. they must be breathing a little easier now. you can have all the drawings and scheme matt ex and studies -- scematies and studies but im sure its a relief to be on the ground. your projection, you would think that 50/50 odds, underscores that weve been used to a lot of su...

Miles an hour. thats a lot faster. thats a much bigger rocket. theres a lot more involved there. more expense. so i think this is really maybe the first step, i would say. of course, it seems like a first step to get people on a commercial vehicle to go do this. so they started out with suborbital flights. not going as fast as you can to get to orbit but fast enough to get above the atmosphere and into space. similar to what jeff bezos is doing. hes going up a more traditional way with a rocket ...

See that they can be just like anyone else. >> stand by. i want to go to tom costello. hes at the site of the virgin galactic space port which is 20 miles from truth or consequence, new mexico. its a space port. you are standing at a place that must have been like the first time they built an airport and there were no planes to fly there. >> reporter: i mean, yeah. you know, its like if theres a one-horse town, this is pretty much it, right, and the horse is, in fact, a future of space. let me j...

Good to have you, sir, and thank you for your service. >> thank you. glad to be with you tonight. >> what do you think, brother? billionaires blasting into space. >> everything about commercial space travel is exciting for people, which excites our nation and ultimately is good for the manned space program. i couldnt be more excited about it than i am. it all positive. >> what do you think about those who are criticizing it? all that money they should donate it to hunger or how come the rich get...

Controls you have in place and verify they are active. we do just that. i dont think the rick of this flight is high. its not zero. >> two, one, zero and liftoff. >> reporter: in the ten years since the launch of "atlantis," the privatization of space flight has quickly expanded. today the commercial aerospace company spacex founded by elon musk regularly takes nasa astronauts as it flies into orbit at a fraction of the cost of the space shuttle. so far nasa has been supportist of the billionair...

>> 2, 1, zero and liftoff. >> in the ten years since the launch of atlantis nasas final space shuttle mission, the privatization of space flight quickly expanded. today the commercial aerospace company founded by spacex founded by elon musk regularly takes nasa astronauts flies into orbit at a fraction of the shuttle. so far nasa has been supportive of the endeavors of billionaires especially after seeing spacex. >> we see the results of the billionaires you call them, putting their wealth into ...

>> what do you think, brother? billionaires blasting into space. >> everything about commercial space travel is exciting for people, which excites our nation and ultimately is good for the manned space program. i couldnt be more excited about it than i am. it all positive. >> what do you think about those who are criticizing it? all that money they should donate it to hunger or how come the rich get to go and nobody else? do you make about those complaints? >> those are valid arguments out of th...

By Karen Sharp Photo: Getty Images Wally Funk an 82 year old woman, set out on a space expedition and completed her astronaut training in 1961. She 21 years old and was apart of the "Mercury 13" Woman In Space Program making her one of the youngest of 13 women. She had passed the rigorous tests that were conducted for the Mercury Seven male astronauts in NASAs program, which ultimately sent Americans to space between 1961 and 1963. Unfortunately, the program was ultimately cut short and the 13...

07.02.2021 20:Jul PM EDT Jeff Bezos vs. Richard Branson in Billionaire Space Race: Virgin Galactic to Beat Bezos Blue Origin Space Flight? Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin are in a race to see who can get to space first. Billionaires Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson have both scheduled their space travels this July. Photo : DON EMMERT/AFP via Getty Images Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin are in a race to see who can get to space first. Billionaires Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson have both schedul...

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