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Setback after it had been grounded by the fda. this is in a flight stroll system for spaceship 2. the faa launched an investigation as to why richard branson's flight in july veered outside of the designated air space for nearly two minutes. looking at markets, asian shares closed mixed and europe has also opened mixed. on wall street, futures are narrowly mixed after a mixed day on monday. out today the closely watched consumer price index, it measures what americans pay for food, gas and other goods. prices likely jumped 5.3% in august from last year, that is the forecast -- a slight drop,...

Designated air space or you're caught flying at an altitude higher or lower than you should be, you could get into a ton of trouble. essentially, that is what the faa is accusing virgin galactic of doing, and virgin galactic now acknowledging it. so it appears what happened is during the ascent, spaceship 2's ascent, and this is according to the journalist who broke this story, who wrote the book on virgin galactic, nicholas schmittle, he is reporting that two lights in the cockpit came on, a red light and a yellow light, and the two pilots were faced with a choice. abort the mission or take o...

First billionaire to make it on space on board a rocket ship he helped fund and develop. that would have gone to jeff bezos or the two pilots could have decided to try to take control and change trajectory manually. that's ultimately what those two pilots decided to do. in doing that, as spaceship 2 was gliding back down to earth, it went outside of its faa designated air space. that's a problem, a big problem. that's what the faa is now investigating and they grounded virgin galactic until that investigation is complete. here is what the company is saying. although the flights ultimate trajec...

During richard branson's flight to the edge of space. what happened here? >> reporter: yeah, it looked like a picture perfect flight. you couldn't tell anything from our vantage point. but what we're learning is that virgin galactic's spaceship 2 had a problem during the deskrentsdes descent, that it went out of the designated air space. and if you are caught flying at an altitude of higher or lower than where you are supposed to be, you get into a lot of trouble and that is essentially what happened here. according to the journalist who literally spent years and years inside the company, two ...

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. i'm christine romans. >> i'm 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. there's mock one. >> branson launching into space in a supersonic space plane he helped fund. the plane dubbed spaceship 2 rocketed to a height of about 50 miles above earth, high en...