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Understanding of the universe beyond just fun for those who can afford commercial space travel. is that what we're looking at next? people will fly up to intelligent of space for fun and burn a lot of cash? >> there's no intended science mission for this came but there's a lot of engineering that is being put on display. all right. a rocket plane. a plane that is deployed from another plane. so it's not from a launch pad as we saw from the videos. and then that goes to high altitude and then comes back and lands like a regular plane. so it spend as small amount of time in what we say suborbita...

Slovenian athlete ratings the overall lead. we will finish where we started in london and the one—day international between england and pakistan. the match was reduced to a7 overs. england has managed just a7 overs. england has managed just a7 all out. in the last few minutes pakistan have been bowled out. england won by 52 runs. more details on that story and on all the others but that is it for now. thank you jane. the british billionaire businessperson sir richard branson is set for his latest venture. he will fly to the edge of space as a passenger in the back of the unity rocket plane h...

The opening of the newport music festival. i'll be at the newport folk festival later this month. i marched in the fourth of july parade in bristol. it's the longest running fourth of july celebration in the entire country. so us being very diligent on this, pamela, it is allowing rhode island to come back real strong. and last year we had 26 million visitors to the state, you know, in terms of tourism. we want to keep that going. but we want to make sure people who are coming in are vaccinated, because we want to keep our state healthy and keep our economy healthy and open up our schools. >> ...

There's more details on that story and on all the others we featured on the bbc sport website, but that's it for now. jane dougall there at the bbc sport centre. the british billionaire businessperson sir richard branson is set for his latest venture. he will fly to the edge of space as a passenger in the back of the unity rocket plane his virgin galactic company has been developing in the us for the better part of two decades. here's the rocket on a test flight. if all goes according to plan, the flight will last about 90 minutes, taking mr branson and his crew in an almost vertical climb thr...

He will fly to the edge of space as a passenger in the back of the unity rocket plane his virgin galactic company has been developing in the us for the better part of two decades. here's the rocket on a test flight. if all goes according to plan, the flight will last about 90 minutes, taking mr branson and his crew in an almost vertical climb through the outer fringe of earth's atmosphere. and if successful, it will give him bragging rights to beating amazon rival jeff bezos into space will whitehorn is president of uk space, the trade body for the british space industry, and the former presid...