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Spent seven people into space and made five new astronauts. we were the first of the spaes companies to get people up there. but we honestly don't see it as a race. >> reporter: branson tweeted his congratulations to bezos on their space flight plans. virgin galactic saying while they remain on track, they have not set an official launch date. both space companies have had successful test flights over the past decade. virgin galactic had a set back when a co-pilot was killed during a test flight of a previous model. but since sold more than 600 tickets at more than $200,000 each, a cost likely...

Origin's first crude space flight along jeff bezos. the space venture blue arge has been awaiting this event for years. the july 20th trip will mark the first time human fly on the vehicle after 15 unmanned test flights. they hope to start selling tickets to the general public hopefully at lower price points. mr. bezos, i just want to let you know, if there is an empty seat, i w'm available. you are live in the "cnn newsroom." i'm jim acosta. president biden is in brussels, belgium for this year's nato summit on his second stop this trip abroad. while the goal so far has been about re-establ...

Man, one giant leap for mankind. >> reporter: forget the last space race. neil armstrong and nasa won that hands down. this space race is going to be much closer, and one corner west texas actually amazon's jeff bezos, the founder of space tourism business blue origin and just up the road in netflix virgin galactic founder richard branson. both have launched successful test flights preparing for future paying passengers. >> and we have liftoff. >> reporter: bezos' blue origin will carry up to six passengers remote control, rocketing into sub orbit for three minutes of flying weightless. virgin...

Aerospace company. set for july 20th, six weeks from now. cnn's innovation and space correspondent rachel crane joins us. rachel, bezos says he dreamed of this since he was 5 years old. >> that's right, ana. bezos has been vocal that since he was a child he dreamed about traveling to space. he founded his aerospace company blue origin more than 20 years ago. and they've been working on the new shepherd space craft making this sorbital. and it's set to take off from the facility in west texas on july 20th. i want to highlight that's the 52nd anniversary of the apollo 11 moon landing days after ...

In fact elevating our orbit we will get a lot more data and information in the coming days. so this is all very positive. >> he added this is why we do test flights and boeing just announced that the star liner capsule will be able to land at white sands, new mexico, within the next 48 hours. >> sandra: phil keating in florida. thanks. >> jon: we continue to cover the clash of the capitol hill titans as nancy pelosi refuses to turn over the articles of impeachment and peter navarro on how the markets are reacting. ( ♪ )