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In the athletics, there was javelin joy for dan pembroke, and just look what it meant. but the result of the day was in the 200 metres, a paralympic proposal from for cape verde's keula nidreia pereira semedo, from her guide runner, manuel. and to everyone's delight she said yes. talk about a fairy tale finish. andy swiss, bbc news. the us federal aviation administration has grounded virgin galactic flights as it investigates the course of sir richard branson�*s recent journey to the edge of space. injuly, space ship two, carrying the british billionaire, landed safely but it's emerged the f...

If we want to go ahead, we'll build space ships for the rest of us. as you know, back in 1994, dear friend greg marinack gave me a copy of the spirit of st. louis. and i learned, in fact, much of aviation was opened up because of prizes, and the idea that let's have a prize for space flight emanated from that conversation. and in 1996, we launched a $10 million prize under the arch in st. louis to incentivize teams to build space ships, all kind of space ships that would be for the rest of us. and the space ship one vehicle built that flew twice to 100 kilometers altitude back in 2004 was then...

There. it depends on how hot the day is. as tom said, the flights are typically in the morning because it's cooler and the higher air density. it's easier to get to higher altitude. it's also less wind. the winds pick up later in the day and you don't want the winds. anyway so the airplane part of this with the spaceship suspended in the center it will get to about 45,000 feet. the airplane carrying the spaceship will then accelerate and start to pull up and over and there's a release, at that point, where spaceship two will fall and the airplane will wing over and pull away as the weight belo...

Prize was space ship one. then they developed it into space ship two. the way this works is that entire spacecraft is actually three spacecraft. three aircraft. it's two fuselages over one single spacecraft. so the spacecraft itself, vss "unity" is the thing in the middle that will detach from it once it gets up there. it's not really three. it's two spacecraft, two aircraft really. the big thing that takes it up is called the mother ship. that's called "eve" named after richard branson's mother who passed away. tom costello is watching this from the ground at space port america. tom, temperat...

Of it. i've got my model of space ship one signed by you. this was back on that day in 2004. we're looking now at imagery on the bottom of the space ship two that will fly today. space ship one, the original, is now in the smithsonian air and space museum. but did you know in 2004 what becomes of the space industry that you had helped give birth to? >> you know, ali, i always was confident that the space industry was going to blossom. i honestly didn't think it would take as long as it has. it's been 17 years since space ship one made its x prize winning flights, and we handed over the $10 mil...