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AP News Radio
Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit suffers launch failure
"A problem developed during virgin orbitz attempt to launch the first satellites into orbit from Western Europe. Sir Richard Branson's virgin orbit company is calling it an anomaly that prevented it from reaching orbit and says it's evaluating the problem. The U.S. based company was using a modified jumbo jet named cosmic girl, which took off from Cornwall in England to release a rocket at 35,000 feet over the Atlantic to the south of Ireland, but about two hours after take off the company reported a problem. The rocket was supposed to take 9 small satellites into orbit, some for civil use and some for defense. UK officials had high hopes for the mission, virgin orbits previously completed for similar launches from California.
WNYC 93.9 FM
"richard branson" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Morning edition from NPR news. I'm Steven skeet. And I'm Rachel Martin. Fire It has been exactly one year since Richard Branson won the billionaire space race. His virgin galactic rocket plane detached from a cargo aircraft and took Branson and his crew on a very cool trip. I was once a child with a dream. Looking up to this stars. Now, I mean, I don't hear the spaceship. Branson beat Jeff Bezos by 9 days becoming the first person to ride his own company's vessel into space. Or maybe it was near space, depends on the definition of where space begins. I mean, if you get about 50 miles, you're pretty high up, so like my own personal opinion is that counts as space flight. Michael wall covers the industry for space dot com. He says virgin galactic has not delivered any civilians to space since then, so Jeff Bezos pulled ahead with his competing operation. Blue Origin. They've flown people 5 times to date. The most recently just last month. And don't forget Elon Musk and SpaceX, not that he would let you. But it's a different kind of space tourism. They have actually launched people to earth orbit, which is a much tougher thing to do. They actually just flew three paying customers to the space station. It's a couple of months ago. And they have a contract to do even more of that in the near future. Space tourism is in its infancy and virgin galactic says it has at least 800 names on its waiting list. We actually know how much they charge the cost $450,000. We don't know how much Blue Origin charges, and we don't really know how much SpaceX is charging for their orbital trips. They've got a NASA deal to fly NASA astronauts to and from the space station. And that works out to about $55 million per seat. Wow. Just 55 million. A cheaper option is on the horizon though, there are companies planning to take people into the high atmosphere underneath a giant balloon. The late Lou Reed was known for songs like walk on the wild side. It's hard not to say it the way he says it, walk on the wild side. He was also a poet, and a photographer, a new exhibition at the New York public library for the performing arts, opens his archives, WNYC's John schaeffer has more. Nobody wrote songs about New York quite like Lou Reed, whether it was enjoying time out in the park, just a perfect day or going uptown to score drugs. $26 in my hand. The exhibit called Lou Reed caught
AP News Radio
Prince William wants saving Earth to come before "space tourism"
"Britain's prince William has criticized some of the world's richest man for using their wealth to fund a new space race and space tourism rather than trying to fix the problems on planet earth in that stat in comments to the BBC William voiced his disapproval a day off to the former Star Trek actor William Shatner became the oldest man to fly to space in a rocket built by Amazon founder Jeff vessels we need some of the world's greatest brains and minds fixed on trying to repair this planet not just trying to find the next place to go and live said William who is second in line to the British throne billionaires Elon musk and Richard Branson also
Marketplace Minute
FAA Says Virgin Galactic Can't Fly Spaceship During Investigation
"Grounded by the federal aviation administration. The faa is looking into a flight in july virgin spaceship to apparently veered out of its approved airspace as it descended toward new mexico virgin founder. Richard branson was on board and later today.
AP News Radio
FAA Bans Virgin Galactic Launches While Probing Branson Trip
"The Federal Aviation Administration says virgin galactic cannot launch anyone into space again until completion of an investigation it involves the virgin galactic flight in July with founder Richard Branson on board nothing could prepare you for the view of a from space the FAA says the rocket ship veered off course during its descent back to New Mexico putting it outside the air traffic control clearance area virgin galactic admits the space plane dropped below the protected airspace for one minute forty one seconds because of a change in wind the flight itself lasted about fifteen minutes the company said the flight was safe and successful virgin galactic says it plans to launch three Italian researchers to the edge of space in a few weeks and wants to start selling tickets to space next year I'm a Donahue
John Williams
Boeing Plans Investment in Virgin Orbit SPAC
"Boeing is the leading gainer on the Dow Up about 3%. Following news that it plans to invest a pile of money in a SPAC merger planned later this year. By Richard Branson's satellite launch company, Virgin orbit Boeing is not investing in The Virgin orbit. It's investing in a speck that virgin orbit is
Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman
"richard branson" Discussed on Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman
"Catalog of the entire sixty to ninety minute interviews with read their available only two masters of scale members. So here's day one of the mindset of scale. The theme of the day is asked what. Why not with. Sir richard branson. Let's listen welcomed the day one for the of scale our first course in the masters of scale app. I know how each minute matters for an entrepreneur and you probably have a tendency to multitask but take a moment right now to turn off slack closure email and arrive for these ten minutes. It will be worth your time whether you entrepreneur starting something from scratch on your own an entrepreneur who built something daring inside established organization or an executive leading at scale. Your single greatest. Success factor isn't knowledge expertise or network. It your mindset so you have to think in ways that are often the exact opposite of what you learn in school. No one is born with all of the entrepreneurial mindsets you may be comfortable in chaos but less confident and making quick decisions. You may have a natural instinct for escaping competition but less certainty about building company culture. The good news is that all of these mindsets can be cultivated. And that's what this course is about each day will tackle a different essential mindset and the most fundamental mindset. You need is a bias for action. It's not enough to have good ideas. You have to be ready to act on them to show you what i mean. I wanna share a story from sir. Richard branson richard is known for his death defying launch monroe leaps in the new markets and industries. Virgin records for genera lines and virgin galactic are just a few he embodies the entrepreneurial biased action will start the story in the mid nineteen sixties. Richard was in high school and about to act on his very first venture. The vietnamese war was going on like a lot of young people thought. It was a travesty of justice Horrendous horrendous horrendous mistake and so i decided actually.
Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman
"richard branson" Discussed on Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman
"How the future is created for products and services that improve society in life. It's how the futures created for jobs for people to things and it doesn't say that big companies are mincemeat but like there's an increasing. What john seely brown john hagel topple rate which is the last decade of companies. That were in the five hundred dropping out of the sap five hundred because yes some large-scale companies. Really go the distance but also companies fail for example. Would you have anticipated yahu went from the giant of the internet. To who are they now as a way of doing it and that can happen with any of these tech companies. It's help with all of that. That's part of that. Creating that content that people across all industries all geographies startups and existing business. People even small business people even a restaurant entrepreneur. 'cause you go well that's you know may not actually ultimately go to scale so the blitz scaling lessons for example don apply but the entrepreneurship does and then of course on the courses app. The whole thing is that's the reason why these had a mindsets are very important because these sets of mindsets allow you to approach the challenges that you're solving with a learning mindset with a. What's the way that i can win this game. What's the way i can get more upside. Avoid downside and what's the way that. I am better day by day. Month-by-month year by year and doing this and sometimes that requires like asking the right question approaching it the right way in order to learn it. Obviously these specific like oh. This is how you do a restaurant or this is how you do a massive scale company. The specific rule may not be in the courses that because it's the mindset the way which you bring to it that allows you to learn. Thanks read and thanks to our listeners. Because we believe in learning we've tax something special onto this episode for you a free listen of day one in the masters of scale courses app on the mindset of scale this one features sir richard branson the centerpiece of each day. In the course is a ten minute. Daily practice anchored by a key first person story from an iconic leader like branson and concluding with a prompt or practice from read. That you can take into your day to drive a new behavior. Each day also includes optional content few to dig deeper. There's a three to five minute.
Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman
"richard branson" Discussed on Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman
"The masters of scale courses app and i encourage you to stay tuned all the way to the end because we'll be sharing with you a lesson from the courses app which includes a special appearance from sir richard branson that really brings it all together and a wrap up lesson from read that you won't want to miss now onto the special episode of masters of scale. You gotta have incredible talent. At every position there are fires burning out. You've such an idiot. Go back to paris. I have no idea what sorry mistake with. You have to time it right absolutely all ten years later but do we invaded iraq. This is masters scale. We'll start the show in a moment after award from exclusive brand partner capital one business The first thing you're going to see as a lot of colors a huge big well and a elephants spinning a ball on its nose and everything is children sized wadi bryant founder of nightline pediatrics chenab. Urgent care clinics in houston but this colorful waiting room and it's pint-sized furniture didn't see many patients during the pandemic thank goodness we already had telemedicine put in place. That was kind of our saving grace. Zouwad made the leap to telemedicine during previous crisis. A hurricane what really got us going with telemedicine was harvey in twenty seventeen if does hurricane if there is a winter freeze children's still get sick so even if they can't get to us physically we have to provide another way for them to get treatment. Is that kind of foresight to let night light. Whether the latest storm says an cave of capital one business one of the trends we see across business owners is an investment in continuous learning and continuous improvement. And so i think naturally when crisis hits that's an opportunity to think big think different because you have to once you start thinking big who's to say where it'll stop. We'll hear how telemedicine gives awadhi some big ideas of our own later in the show. It's all part of capital. One businesses look at entrepreneurs who are persevering with courage and innovation. I'm bob sathian former editor fast company founder of the flux group and host for this special bonus episode of masters of scale we believe the single greatest success factor for any scale leader isn't knowledge experience or network. It's your mindset optimism resilience curiosity and also things that are less obvious counter intuitive mindset's like letting fires burn and occasionally doing things that don't scale and no one not even read is born with all the entrepreneurial mindsets you may be comfortable in chaos but.
The View
"richard branson" Discussed on The View
"Back. And before we move on. I need to clear something up. President biden loss texas by six hundred thirty thousand votes. You would think if people were going to cheat. He would have won. I'm just saying yesterday. President biden's set out to boost the low vaccination rate amongst teens with an instagram post. Asking young people to help him get out the message. One of the biggest pop stars on the planet right now. Olivia rodrigo entered the and. She's at the white house right now. Sarah is a livia a good spokesperson for this push. I absolutely think so. You wanna come to young people where they're at and right now. This is tapping into the pulse of what's going on. Among the younger ones among us but like obama the digital campaign he did bernie sanders when he interviewed cardi b. This is about kind of tapping into their ether. Olivia rodriguez combined twenty eight million followers and her all eleven songs from her recent album sour charted in the hot one hundred top thirty. This girl you can't be in a car or listen to a radio without hearing her song. So i just think this was a brilliant move by the white house to tap into her influence. Megan are you a fan of bolivia's she. There might be a bit of a generation gap for folks but because a lot of people weren't familiar with but you know who she was. And do you think she's a good spokesperson. I love her. she's so good. I just hope that something about this. Vaccination campaign takes the lyrics from her song. Good for you because the lyrics are good for you. You'll look happy and healthy. And i just hope they somehow combine that earworm song for the vaccine rollout. It'd be funny and she's wildly talented and all her songs are like amazing. And she's just a total rising star. There's nothing unusual about this. I mean you know richard. Nixon met elvis. People use people from pop culture to try and You know get expand you know your your whatever whatever it is that you need and you want going out. And seeing reason why celebrities go out and stumped for politicians. I know you've done that with different politicians from time to time. You just want to get people excited and want to get people interested in bringing out. Somebody that everybody loves is always a good idea to do that. Yeah never a bad idea anna. Will this kind of targeted outreach. Work in your opinion what this is just one that they're doing. they're doing all sorts of outreach. At the white house. I did an instagram. Live with dr foul. She last week they're going for people in the communities are going for preachers or going for local. Doctors are going for the celebrities. And i think this all out approach is what we need right now when we see that so many states over forty states are trending in the wrong direction when it comes to cove it and it's such a stark contrast with what's happening in my state for example where i am so disappointed to see rhonda scientists governor rhonda santa's who worked in cooperation with biden and was bipartisan or nonpartisan in the surf. Side collapse reaction. He is selling political. Swag he is selling. He's merchandising with the suffering of the people who've died with the pandemic don't be cute. Don't sell beer cruces merch exploiting an profiting off the pandemic and buying into the signs denying while your state has increased exponentially and one week. It's called the cases. That's just irresponsible and shameful. And i'm very very disappointed in him. Wow sunny d. Do you think influencers and teen celebs the best messengers here to pass the information to young people. Honestly what be. I'm still so floored at don't fao g. My florida. I mean cove is everyone knows. Hit our family particularly hard with the death of both of my husband's parents. And i cannot believe that you would have the governor of florida encouraging people not to get vaccinated. That is despicable. It's disgusting. But i will say this you know when you look at the numbers for teens. You have sixteen only thirty seven point. One percent of sixteen to seventeen year olds have been vaccinated only twenty four point. Nine percent of twelve to fifteen year olds have been vaccinated. Eighteen to twenty four only forty one point six percent fully vaccinated. So the message has to get out and whoever is the right messenger. Let's do it. i like that. You've heard less mega work. We'll be right back. Nats virgin galactic founder sir richard branson and his crewmates we should ban law are here to talk about what their historic mission means for the future of space tourism and answering critics claiming the billionaire space race is turning the cosmos into a playground for the rich. Welcome back virgin galactic founder. Sir richard branson just went where no billionaires ever gone before on a spacecraft his company built to them into orbit and orbit and he joins us now with his crewmate and the third indian american woman on earth to ever reach space. sirri shah. Band la and sa- richard welcome to the view and congratulations on making history blasting off the edge of space aboard space craft. You know it's it's been a minute how we use that you are looking back. How do you feel was such an achievement through with with a with a woman i. It's just been incredible. I've been dreaming about this. Since i was since i was young so to have achieved aetna and especially to have gone up to space with virgin galactic. Which has meant so much for me. When i was little i saw richard. Sorry i am still little when i was younger I saw richard announced that he was going to create virgin galactic to make space accessible for all and it. That's when i said i was going to go up to space with virgin galactic because they didn't qualify because of my eyesight for nasa or other methods of going to space so So meaningful to have gone to space and to have gone to space with virgin galactic richard. My husband would do anything to fly to space and eat candy. Gobbling menem's do weightless cartwheel's i've told him not to even think of spending that money because he's gonna need to stay in space if he spends that money so he needs to live vicariously through you. Can you describe how it felt what you saw there. Just can you describe it to those of us. That ain't going. Well i mean we we. We we went. We went up from north to three thousand miles an hour. Eight seconds so I suspect the right the right of a lifetime and something that i think both both both responded extraordinary and then having said if he words back to kids back here on earth am i just unbuttoned and then lifting lifting up and just but really becoming peter pan of i've never is indescribable just Effectively flying flying in space and in the meantime richer and other people doing experiments in the cabin for a. We've had experiments for nasa experiments for different organizations. So they're They're they're having a good time but they're working really hard and then the views outside the windows while whilst with whilst we're doing our other things are looking at the winters back at that couldn't credible and there's the the the is is breathtaking And then if your if your husband wants then buckle back in for the ride back it's coming back into the atmosphere It's quite extreme but Bit like you see in the movies but bearable from the body. Well the risha. Esther richard just mentioned a lot of scientific good has come out of space travel things like cat. Scans and gps advanced weather. Forecasting and my understanding. Is that your job on. This flight was science based and you carried apparently experiments strapped to your leg. I wanna know what information were you trying to gather. And how do you think this capability will transform science and research absolutely so my role as mission specialist in this flight Was to conduct human tended research. So i was carrying What's called kennedy fixation to From the university of florida and had a plant in there that would express genes depending on the environment so we took it through hygiene environment on the space and the low g environment in space and they can take it back to a lab and see what genes were expressed to see how the plant reacted to that environment..
The Ten News
Space Tourism Blasts Off
"The world has been buzzing about space lately as more and more rockets take off from our planet but the latest launches aren't from governments or organizations that you used to like nasa instead. Several billionaires and their companies have gotten into a bit of a space race on july first richard branson who owns space company. Virgin galactic became the first person to get to space in a rocket that he funded cool ends on july twenty first amazon founder. Jeff bezos flew a few miles higher than branson and a rocket called new shepherd nice. Each flight was about ten minutes long. Both virgin galactic and bezos company. Blue origin have stated that. They're looking to popularize space tourism. But right now they're charging big bucks for the privilege. Virgin is currently charging two hundred fifty thousand dollars a seat and while blue origin. Tickets aren't opened for the public to buy yet. One of bazo seat meets ponied up. Twenty eight million dollars for the first ride. These flights represents a new era for space travel. But they've also been controversial. Critics have questioned the amount of money being spent on this endeavor instead of donating to causes and solving problems here on earth especially in the midst of a pandemic but besides being joyrides for the rich and famous experts. Say that these space vehicles could one day have something to offer the science world. Scientists who want to conduct experiments in low. Gravity haven't been able to go aboard flights at all. The ships are unmanned bummer. That could change in the future scientists. Hope that they could study questions. Like how living things respond to the move from. Gravity to
WSJ Tech News Briefing
Where Space Begins: Bezos' Blue Origin vs. Branson's Virgin Galactic
"This morning in a remote part of the west texas desert the world richest man amazon founder. Jeff bezos plans to take off for a trip to space. It's the first space flight with passengers on board for his company. blue origin. Now if you were paying attention nine days ago another billionaire. Richard branson took a flight to space with his company virgin. Galactic bezos is flight will be a little different in how it launches and where the passengers will go. But the difference is don't stop there. They extend to the goals and ambitions of both companies and to discuss that. We have a reporter mike. Berg who covers the business of space for the wall street journal back on the show. I'm mike thanks for joining us again so nine days ago you were in new mexico watching the virgin galactic flight with richard branson launch. Now you're in texas for the blue origin launch. What are some of the differences you expect to see when this flight takes off. Yeah i mean the biggest difference just sort of visually blue origin uses a rocket to get the space. We're going to see literally the new scheffer rocket flare up into at very high speeds into space. And then you know we won't see this but a capsule detach and float into space and then the rocket will return to the launch pad. Virgin galactic of course uses a different method. They've got a kind high-flying airplane that flies up. You know the way you would see at an airport and the space craft the virgin galactic spacecraft attached to the rocket detaches at about forty five thousand feet and then it sort of rockets up into space from there. So you'll literally see the
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
Jeff Bezos to Blast Into Space Aboard New Shepard Rocket Ship
"Just as millions of americans wake up tomorrow morning. We should be hearing about the fate of jeff bezos. His brother and two other notable passengers as the richest man in the world launches the four some into sub orbital space. It's amazon prime on steroids. They're ride we'll be on blue origin. The space tourism company. That bezos founded lift those who can afford it into the wild blue yonder our report from the launch site in west. Texas tonight from nbc. News correspondent tom castillo in remote van horn texas. Anticipation is building the launchpad forty-five miles out in the desert set for billionaire. Jeff bezos slipped off this morning on today. Bezos industry fellow passengers were giddy with excitement. People who say they go into space. They come back changed. I can't wait to see what is going to do to me. While blue origin has flown fifteen unmanned test flights this will be the first to carry passengers. Bazo will take seat number six the simulator. An exact replica of the capsule that will carry all four sixty two miles high for three minutes of weightlessness and six massive windows. As you're essentially it feels like the earth is falling away from you to your window. Exactly like richard branson's virgin galactic. Paying passengers are already signing up eventually blue origin plastics and six passengers at a time into space from this launch pad and the west texas desert but unlike a nasa rocket or the virtual space plane. There are no professional astronauts or pilots on board. It is all controlled from the ground. Blue origin insist. The ship is loaded with safety backups. With the bezos great escape so for nine am eastern. Tom costello nbc news van horn texas
Sky News Daily
Branson, Bezos, Musk: The Billionaire Space Race
"Richard branson's being outed longer than the others. Seventeen years or so since richard branson. I announced his ambitions. Two thousand four. When virgin galactic was started. I think back then the intention walls within three or four years. They be doing what they've only just done now of of taking passengers into space but for him dates back and he. He talks about this a lot. Doesn't it back to nineteen sixty nine and watching the moon landing a teenager. We choose to go to the moon and and do the other thing not because they are easy being taken outside by his dad and the pointing up at the moon and realizing there were two men up there east folks at one of those men buzz aldrin in the nineties and and talked about the idea of using plane rather than a traditional rocket as so. The idea is been fermenting for a long time lot of setbacks on the way of course. I think a lot of us wonder whether this would ever happen. He's proved he can do it. And i think that for him is why this is so emotionally significant but also practically significant in a business sense as well. Let's go through the others then we go elon. Musk of tesla. Fame with space. X.'s dragon capsule and he's the best known for his space ambitions around the world. Think just because of his global profile that he has and has had a lot of success with the commercial side of this deals with nasa of taking things up into orbital space which of course is much further than branson or some of the tourism operations are going and has talked in perhaps much greater ambition. About what could be done. He's talked about colonizing mars. Easy said he wants to go to mars. he's also said people might die. Going to mars but ambitions seemed to be much bigger and grander than just space tourism. And someone who through his life has solve the big problems as he's seen them around the world and this is one he sees that needs to be solved by the private sector. Then making up the triumvirate. Jeff bezos of amazon fame. What of his ambitions. what's his rocket. Program is interesting isn't because he there's far less publicity with with. Jeff bezos a blue origin. The company that will take him into space has been around for twenty years so longer than branson's virgin galactic but his plans all rooted much further back than that he he talks of colonizing space of building these holds where trillions of people can live something. It's thought he took from a professor. He had at princeton physicist. Who came up with his idea in the seventies so he has these grand ambitions that pass. He doesn't talk about as much as richard branson alone. Musk but which are very rooted in in history and clearly having left amazon this is now his focus on taking humans where they where they've not come
Atlanta's Morning News
New Shepard Rocket Is Ready to Boost Bezos
"Origin rocket and capsule to fly tomorrow on the anniversary of the first moon landing. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and crew mates are In the final phase of training. Now, weather permitting, the new Shepard lifts off at nine tomorrow morning. Unlike Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic spacecraft, New Shepard is fully automated with no pilots or even flight controls on board. So to keep athletes a part in the
Meet the Press
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic Flight Opens Door to Space Tourism
"Virgin Galactic plans to take paying passengers, including the rich and famous to space starting next year for hundreds of thousands of dollars a ticket after his successful space flight this month. Current space investor and virgins. Former president Will White heart This day really heralds an industrial revolution. Elon Musk's SpaceX and Amazon's Jeff Bezos are also part of this revolution. Some investors have doubts but not virgin CEO Michael Cole glaze here. I think the financial model here is going to be very robust, Beso says, planning his trip further out into space than Branson in the coming days. Blue Origin also says it's windows are bigger. White Hart says space travel is way bigger than just the passenger business and watch for satellite space based data center, space cell phone service and solar energy to all skyrocket. Space has to be industrialized of 11. Billion people are going to survive on this planet in 15 years time.
The Vergecast
"richard branson" Discussed on The Vergecast
"Network to compete with team always into verizon any like. Can you just goose that along a little bit. Nothing's happening here. Somebody help charlie that. It's this is like this underlying we don't think about five g. Networks as having suppliers and vendors usually live at this high consumer level like we think about eighteen. Thousand verizon is providers of five g. to us the consumer they've gotta go out and get nokia and siemens and whoever else like put stuff on their towers right in right now. All that stuff is effectively proprietary. Like you buy into one system ran is the open. Anybo- any supplier commute under a lot of this is aimed at increasing competition. So we're not relying on chinese companies like wal way so even in here all the way down to the earliest thing. I can think of on the verge cast jones like i got an idea about iran. Put that in there just zubaydah have. That idea is taboo. have that idea. That's definitely absolutely here. This entire section by the way is under a previous section that instructs to protect vibrancy of american markets were wine and spirits. The secretary of treasury shall not after one hundred twenty days and submitted a report to the chair of the white house assessing the current market structure and conditions of competition under wine and spirits. Well he's all over the place. Yeah he's like too many too much consolidation in the spirits market. Diario get in here. I like the idea that there's a there's an alliance between like diaz geo at version meat packers the point we killing us. Joe give me call if you ever want to do it. Vodka brand of ideas for it. So i feel like we has talk about branson version galactic. First flight he was on. It made a big deal. It was really weird. Yeah it was weird they. They made a fake video of him riding his bike to the spaceport which turned out he just. He had written his bike the day before they faked it. I'm all for bike riding. But i mean i don't know how i don't know how that connects to anything. The thing that's interesting to me is like amazon and like blue origin they had to like be snippy about this too technically space. You know great really interesting to me about this like the bicycle video. We're very used to spacex right. Probably everybody listening to show is watched. Uh spacex livestream spacex basically apes nasa right and assez national. Tv is not like action packed. Right right nasa. Like their streams. Are you know their government agency trying to educate the public and inspire the youth to do math. Or whatever and they're very dry. Direct spacex alonzo engineer. That's an engineering company famously. Tesla doesn't do any marketing. Like say sex. Looks a lot like i said. I think as a company. Their engineering focused. Most spacex launches are like after the launch. There's a long period of just like watching a rocket float into the sky while dot bar graph at the bottom moves along and then like excited people. Tell you about space. Engineering and people are captivated minutes. I'll make sense. Our science team has very conflicted feelings about the space. X livestream is right. Because they're not real like they april thing that looks official the a the government regulated thing. But they're a private company. That looks like it. But they're still pretty good and people washington who like them branson is literally like a music video executive that's who he is. He's an entertainment executive. The virgin galactic stream was like an infomercial like no aping nasa whatsoever. There was another stream. That was up from just like a youtube channel and they were just like yeah. Watch us if you don't want the fluff because interspersed with the regular virgin. Galactic stuff was like you know like at the olympics that you like human interest pieces on like athletes. Yeah it was that but for branson and then like what about one about his mom like just all this stuff. Hyping it up and i was like watching. This is like sci fi movie where the rocket explodes me. Made me anxious. As i was watching. If you say something is great this much like something movies man. It all went off. It was fine as space gets more privatized in commercial and then we've all kind of lulled into complacency by spacex being this engineering company. That kind of looks like nasa their commercial. That plane landed in. They're like here's a song. Richard branson commission from college and then we just like listen to a song. For what like. Why is this happening. And i i think we were. We should all get ready like blue origin. Does it and virginia lactic. Does it other companies start to do commercial space. They're going to do commercial space. And it's gonna look like branded content. Not like something went wrong in that flight will you. I would not have trusted that video to be an accurate representation of the flight correct. Yeah cycling on the same over and over again until they figured out what to say. I mean the thing about the stuff is the these huge celebrations And if you actually step back and think about what are we celebrating. We are celebrating the fact that private companies have done something that we did as like society and a government seventy years ago sixty years ago. Whatever like that's that's what we're celebrating. And i know that's productive and it's more than that but i don't know it is a little weird like the joke that billionaire's space. They should stay there. I don't want anybody to die. Obviously but i do. I do wanna know like other than a pr opportunity. Like tell better story of what the purpose of your you know. Space rockets are the bransons. It's just a pr opportunity right. Like he's he was evaluating the product but he came off his rocket right in there. Like what was it and he was like that was amazing dream of it's such since i was a little boy. What a great opportunity to evaluate the customer experience..
MadTrio Podcast
"richard branson" Discussed on MadTrio Podcast
"Is only three thou- Excuse me three hundred seventy five square feet and the ship than a flatbed truck. Well he honestly seems like a minimalist. I don't know about his his wife having multiple kids. In that yeah. I don't think that's going to work. I mean at the very least he'll have a million dollars pre evo sitting out there and know that's the thing is i've often said over the years like like you know what if i was rich. I like i don't need a million square feet for walk around just one like a small enough space where i don't you know like feel like i fuck my kitchen too far. Really want the smackdown. Like i just want a smaller space with a lot of cool. Shit so i. I can see. That prefab happened like you know. Just incredibly expensive accoutrements go with it. I have three hundred square feet apartments bigger than three hundred feet. It's a single guy. I know what it's a single guy. I could see living in that depending on where but being married and having a young kid just does not seem compatible to but on the other hand he does sleep in office a lot or without on on the eight acre plot of land. Yeah well but he's probably doing these for quick naps. And then you know back and forth running companies so what about his girlfriend or wife. Does she lived there too i. I don't know you read the article. It doesn't say that has got her one to as kids have a couple of them too. And by that time it's fifteen hundred square feet. That's kind of what i was thinking. He just has like three right next to each other. Because that's what. I don't understand like on the other hand it is a nice. It's actually a nice looking house by the picture. i see. it obviously looks prefab but looks. It's actually nice inside so that might be your next home. Hey where the way things are going with the vet and the predictive crash. Show the stock market there. What was it. There was a guy on one of the shows. I was listening to circle. There was a guy. That was terrible guy. I was listening to that was Talking about how. It's guaranteed within the next so many blah blah blah. There's going to be a massive crash and yada yada man. there may be a correction. I mean but that's let's i wanna talk to real people not these guys that want. Wanna try to drive down store stocks. So anybody have any stories before i I keep going go under next one. Yeah so did you hear that There is finally a winner in the billionaire. Space race i did. Yeah richard richard branson wins the billionaire space race and i mean bozo came. So there's no such thing. As a race there was no race. Congratulations branson trying to like like. I didn't win the loser talking. Yeah well is is elon. Musk said you both suck. Yeah probably right sukey elon. Musk actually booked a flight on virgin. Galactic didn't care. I don't think he really wants to go. I can't i can't believe that. The other shareholders of faith back and or tesla rather would allow that due to buchan rocket..
KOMO
"richard branson" Discussed on KOMO
"We're following a pair of power outages in Snohomish County, with more than 1300 homes and businesses out. One is in Everett on either side of the Boeing Freeway, and the estimate is power. Back sometime after 4 30, But Snohomish County P U. D hasn't even sent out a crew. Yet. The other is just north of the market. Martha Lake Area towards south Effort where the early estimate has the power back on around 5 30 or after 5 30. We'll keep an eye on this and let you know when we have updates. Billionaire Richard Branson landed safely back on Earth after a successful flight aboard a Virgin Galactic spacecraft yesterday. Everything I've dreamt about since I was a kid. Came through and more today and and and Baby spice. And he'd be Jeff Bastos. Blue Origin launch by more than a week, reporting on this in the Washington Post Christian Davenport, who joins Taylor van sites on the KOMO news line, so near enough to two decades of work went into this trip and Virgin Galactic as we've talked about before seen some tragedy along the road, did everything go according to plan over the weekend. Yeah, it seemed to go flawlessly. And you know, Richard Branson finally fulfilled this dream of going to the edge of space. He did it with a full cabin. There were three other crew mates with him all Virgin Galactic. Employees who were flying along on a test flight to sort of get a sense of what the experience would be for paying customers. You know, ultimately later this year early next, they want to open up their space tourism business. And there were two pilots on board as well. So a total of six people made it to space and this was, you know a big deal. For the company. And for Richard Branson himself who founded Virgin Galactic Way back in 2000 and four hoping initially to start flying people by 2000 and seven. Obviously, that didn't happen. It took a lot longer than they anticipated. As you mentioned they did have some setbacks. Along the way. There was a fatal accident in 2014 where the space plane came apart mid flight and it killed one of the pilots and injured the other pilot who had the parachute down. But they you know, um, went back. Made some modifications to the spacecraft stayed at it, and here we are. Now they're on the cusp of flying pain customers and you got to go to this launch in New Mexico at Spaceport America. Tell me a little bit about this place because once paying passengers are accepted by Virgin Galactic, I understand there's a pretty significant infrastructure. Built up around space tourism. Yeah, but Virgin Galactic facility in New Mexico. It's outside of Las Cruces, New Mexico, Um In the in the desert there and these beautiful mountains surrounded and spaceport America itself as this taxpayer funded facility that cost $220 million, and it really does sort of fit into the landscape of New Mexico there and the sort of modern Miracle almost kind of looks like a mirage when you get out there, and that's where Virgin Galactic will do its astronaut training. Getting the pan customers ready to fly where they keep of the spacecraft. Remember, this is not a rocket that launches vertically. That's what blue origin will use for the capsule on top. This is a space plane that is tethered to the belly of a mothership, a twin fuselage airplane that brings it up to about 45,000 ft or so and then releases the space plane and the pilot. It's the engines and turned and they go as fast as Mach three, going almost straight up, and then they come back down and land that Spaceport America and they're in space for about 3 to 4 minutes, and they get some weightlessness around them. Certainly an exciting time. I think to be covering the space industry as if it's not an interesting topic as it is Christian Davenport with US on common news, who covers the space industry for the Washington Post, and Christian will keep an eye out for your coverage of the blue origin launch in about eight days or so, Yeah, maybe I'll talk to you next week. I hope so. Christian Davenport on common. It was with us. And that's Cuomo's Taylor Vance Ice. Common news time is 3 40. I think we've got a sports report in there somewhere. Oh, no, We've got Bill Sports Life. Got the real deal. EJ. Yes, you do. Let's talk some storm basketball. Seattle learned the weekend split against the Phoenix Mercury. They're in first place in the W N b A with the 16 and five record, And now we've got the Olympics an all Star break. Obviously, we've had you know, players gone different lineups, but At the end of the day. I think just bringing energy and just playing alongside one another. We're messing very well. And obviously we're gonna go into this break stories going to come back with a gold medal lose going to come back with a medal. I'm going to the beats. Ah, there's the game plan for Mercedes Russell. I like that when the W NBA All Star game Wednesday in Las Vegas Game four of the NBA Finals, also Wednesday in Milwaukee. The buck stopped the sun. So now they're down one to the Phoenix Seattle Mariners reached the MLB All Star break with the 71 loss to the Angels yesterday, their five games over 500. Now picture you say Kikuchi moved off the team's covid 19 list. He's eligible playing Tomorrow's Midsummer Classic in Denver tonight in the Mile high chorus Real You got the All Star home Run Derby met slugger Pete Alonso is the defending champ. But everybody's watching the Eagles The Angels guy Shohei Otani. He might just hit a gargantuan home run and then pitch and win the game too. He's that good sports at 10 40 After the hour, Bill Schwartz come on in. He's got it dialed in, doesn't he? Oh, yeah, man. All right, thanks, Bill 3, 42 traffic and weather Next right now, more than 125,000 Children are waiting to be adopted from foster care, The Dave Thomas Foundation for adoption work. Around the clock to find them. The permanent loving homes they deserve. You can help learn more. A Dave Thomas foundation dot org.
CNBC's Fast Money
"richard branson" Discussed on CNBC's Fast Money
"The company gearing up to sell as much as five hundred million dollars in its own common shares. So what do you make of it. I'll start here with you. Dan nathan next to me. What do you make of this secondary offering. It seems like you should do it right. Let's give the people what they want right. So the stock had gone from in early may below. I think twenty bucks. Maybe as low as fifteen and his high as recently in the high fifties here. A lot of anticipation about this flight went off without a hitch. That's fantastic gives investors a little bit of a preview of what might be the commercial experience here. And there's not a better person than richard branson. I suspect to kind of articulate that all that being said this is basically a pre revenue company and with eleven billion dollar market cap heading into that. I couldn't see too many scenarios especially with the blue origin plate coming in a week or so where this was going to go well for them. After the event so to me you could have looked at the options. Market the skew in the calls the demand for calls versus downside puts was off the charts. It was like that of puts. That was telling me that things are a little bit at some. Yes exactly so. So karen feinerman does the space race interest. You is there. Is there something that gets you excited about whether or not virgin galactic is something that you want to buy on a seventeen percent dip. Well i i'm somewhat swayed. I'm the opposite. Peter lynch by what you like. I would so hate to go on space. Travel this kind of flight. It's so there's no way. But the thing that does interest me is ultra-supersonic space travel. You know i think united airlines just placed in order for planes that can get you from new york to london and three and a half hours. That to me is interesting. It's interesting as potential business. This is sort of a no not so interesting to me here. I have none nothing in this case no pun intended. Nothing in the space. All right well. There is still time to vote by the way guys..
News-Talk 1400 The Patriot
"richard branson" Discussed on News-Talk 1400 The Patriot
"Very concerned about rising crime. Also ahead. Are you woke hope not but first. Donald Trump, addressing the conservative group CPAC in Dallas, Texas, former president targeting political opponents and insisting the election was a fraud. Mr Trump in Florida Governor Ron Dissenters. List of potential 2024 candidates in Cpac's straw poll. President Biden stop Covid advisor, Dr Anthony Fauci. She's saying some Americans quote rigid ideology is preventing them from getting Baxter. The doctor pointing out lower than average vaccinations in states controlled by Republicans about 50% of the total population Now vax, including 69% of adults, which is why Covid is on the wane in this country. Richard Branson, who runs the Virgin outfit, becoming the first civilian astronaut. The British foreign businessman flying his virgin Galactic craft 53 miles above the earth to the edge of outer space. Rival tech billionaire Jeff Bezoza, will launch his own rocket later this month. Both companies hope to offer commercial travel to space by the middle of 2022. Average price $500,000. But they will still lose your luggage. Housekeeper in Denver, tipping off police after discovering guns, body armor and 1000 rounds of ammunition at a downtown hotel. The arsenal located just blocks from Coors Field, the site of the major League All Star Game. Three men and a woman have been arrested. Cops say they were doing a drug deal. But who knows? A survey published by the National Journal says the majority of Americans are worried about violent crime, including Democrats. 57% of Republicans call the issue a major crisis while 52% Of Democrats agree. Seven in 10. African Americans labelling the national spike in homicides a grave threat. And that is true. In a moment. Woke people..
KIRO Radio 97.3 FM
"richard branson" Discussed on KIRO Radio 97.3 FM
"Richard Branson says he went from being a child with a dream to being an adult in a spaceship. The 70 year old billionaire successfully flew into space yesterday in New Mexico with a crew in a plane built by his company. I have dreamt of this moment since I was a kid, honestly, nothing could prepare you for the view of Earth from space. I mean the whole thing just magical. Later this month, fellow tycoon Jeff Bezoza will set off on his own space mission. Federal judge is considering whether to order fines or other sanctions against Trump lawyers who got behind a lawsuit last year challenging the election results in Michigan, Sidney Powell, Linwood and others are accused of pushing frivolous claims. Mr Trump persisted with his unfounded claims of 2020 election fraud as he easily won a 2024 GOP straw poll at a CPAC event in Dallas, attacking members of his own party who have criticized him and Democrats. They're very vision. Yes, And they're smart and they stick together They don't have Mitt Romney's and little Ben Sasse is Bill Cassidy in Florida. More manatees died in the first six months of this year than in any full year in recorded history 841, according to wildlife officials, scientists grant Gilmore says it's about pollution, killing their feeding source. That's what we think is the primary issue. Right now we know we have documented the disappearance of seagrass overseas. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has condemned the race. This abuse on social media targeting three black players who missed their penalty kicks in England. 0 2020 Soccer lost to Italy. London police are investigating in Rome. The outcome of the game was cause for celebration..
The Mason Minute
Billionaires In Space (MM #3764)
"The Maison with Kevin Nation, hope the last few years months, weeks days, even been a lot of talk about billionaires going into office space, the space race between billionaires, Richard Branson, yesterday, going up, the outer space. I guess it wouldn't be considered a rocket a rocket plane. I don't know what you call it, and of course, Jeff Bezos going up in one of his Rockets here, in the next couple of weeks wage. Well, I'm kind of disgusted like many people. And while I understand the desire to do things, you once wished you could do as a kid. If you're a billionaire, you can do those things. Heck, if you're a billionaire, you can do anything. But sadly like many months, look at what, all those people do, did not help their employees. But all those people do the forward themselves and don't think of a bigger picture. Don't think of the world we're living in right now. Think about how can they waste their money on something frivolous and stupid just for their own enrichment. Now, the counter argument, of course is their money. They can do whatever they want with it and I understand that but it's still just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Something just bothers me when I can't put my finger on it but billionaires in space some people say, leave them their wage.
The Mason Minute
Billionaires In Space (MM #3764)
"The Maison with Kevin Nation, hope the last few years months, weeks days, even been a lot of talk about billionaires going into office space, the space race between billionaires, Richard Branson, yesterday, going up, the outer space. I guess it wouldn't be considered a rocket a rocket plane. I don't know what you call it, and of course, Jeff Bezos going up in one of his Rockets here, in the next couple of weeks wage. Well, I'm kind of disgusted like many people. And while I understand the desire to do things, you once wished you could do as a kid. If you're a billionaire, you can do those things. Heck, if you're a billionaire, you can do anything. But sadly like many months, look at what, all those people do, did not help their employees. But all those people do the forward themselves and don't think of a bigger picture. Don't think of the world we're living in right now. Think about how can they waste their money on something frivolous and stupid just for their own enrichment. Now, the counter argument, of course is their money. They can do whatever they want with it and I understand that but it's still just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Something just bothers me when I can't put my finger on it but billionaires in space some people say, leave them their wage.
Kim Komando
Richard Branson Reaches Space on Virgin Galactic Flight
"Galactic founder Richard Branson blasting off aboard his own rocket ship, with five employee crewmates floating in zero gravity and gliding back to a runway in Mexico. Today, nine days ahead of Philipp billionaire Jeff Bezos support his blue origin rocket. Branson offered bezoza the absolute best and his people are going up within during his flight.
AP News Radio
Billionaire Richard Branson Reaches Space in His Own Ship
"Richard Branson flew to space Sunday aboard his own rocket ship beating out fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos in the race to get there please read seven five crewmates from his virgin galactic's space tourism company reached an altitude of about fifty three miles over the New Mexico desert enough to experience weightlessness and see the curvature of the earth from there Branson said it's amazing after landing he pops the bubbly and said welcome to the dawn of the new space age we had to make space more accessible to all of all we want to turn the next generation of dreamers into the astronauts rocket ships portion of the flight took around fifteen minutes or about as long as Alan Shepard's first US space flight in nineteen sixty one it was intended as a confidence boosting plug for virgin galactic which plans to start taking paying customers next year I'm Julie Walker
Street Talk with Chris Davies
Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson Flies Own Rocket to Space
"Off in the billionaire companies space rocket plane reaching an altitude of about 53 miles floating in zero gravity before gliding back to the New Mexico runway at Spaceport America. Minutes ago, Branson recalling his experience, honestly, nothing could prepare you for the view of a from space. I mean, if the whole thing was just magical, and suddenly you're looking down, and you've seen three people looking up at you. Hang on, man. What are you doing down there? The mothership aircraft releasing the space plane about 8.5 miles up when the rocket ignited a B C's Joe Benitez watching from the spaceport. It was at that moment when the spaceship with Richard Branson on board and those four other passengers. On board. They were all able to go to the edge of space. It's hoped the flight will usher in a new era in space tourism. The rise of the Delta
Kim Komando
Richard Branson Goes to Space on a Virgin Galactic Flight
WGN Radio
"richard branson" Discussed on WGN Radio
"Well at this hour. Richard Branson reached space this morning in his boldest adventure. Yet the 71 year old Branson has moved past fellow billionaire and rival Jeff Bezoza, who is planning to fly to space in his own spacecraft. About nine days from now. In 500 people watching Branson's wife, Children and grandchildren were on the ground in New Mexico when the aircraft took off a little after 9 35 this morning Chicago time it landed back in New Mexico about 15 minutes ago, and at this point the spacecraft or airplane, whatever you want to call it. Is being towed back in where we will hear shortly, perhaps from us, Sir Richard Branson and the arrest of his crew once again, making a safe landing, uh, with their spacecraft this morning at touching the edge of space around 9, 35 or 10 o'clock this morning Chicago time. Police were busy this morning with two different incidents on the Chicago expressways. More from WGN. Steve Ruxton, a young child among nine people injured in a crash on the The multi view called crash reportedly happened just after three a.m. and the outbound, Lien said the expressway near Keeler, the victims transported to different area hospitals. All are in fair condition. Just a few hours earlier, a passenger in a car and the Stevenson was hit by gunfire. Police say the shooting occurred at about one a.m. in the outbound lead engineer Pulaski before other occupants of the vehicle weren't injured. The victim was hospitalized. No word on a condition. Steve Roxton WGN News. The unrelenting heat continues to hit the West, prompting an excessive heat warning for inland and desert areas. Death Valley in Southeast California's Mojave Desert 128 degrees yesterday. The largest wildfire of the year in California is in the northern part of the state along the border with Nevada. It's called the Beckworth Complex Fire, a combination of two lightning caused Fires burning 45 miles north of Lake Tahoe. That's barely 10% contained and Sunday on State Street starts today. In fact, it just started about four minutes ago. The event is free. There will be 70 on street activities throughout the day, including yoga, writing workshops, circus workshops and games and music. Jessica Cadiz with the Chicago Loop Alliance. Well, I hope that.
WBZ Morning News
Bezos vs. Branson: The Billionaire Space Race Lifts Off
"Virgin galactic founder Richard Branson scheduled to fly to the edge of space today on a plane developed by his company. This would be several days before Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezoza makes a similar trip. Well, a tough
Space Nuts
"richard branson" Discussed on Space Nuts
"Looks like we've got a space race on here for young and old particularly old. Because it's it's not a traditional russia versus america to the moon in space race. This is virgin. Galactic richard branson and jeff bays us trying to get into the romney. They orbital spacecraft. I yet fan of the way. I'm looking at it. The bookies of short money on richard branson at the moment yes. That's right according to all the various announcements that'd be made. Excuse me so we've got a very esoteric record breaking a record to be set here The first billionaire into space with their own space craft. And it between richard branson of virgin galactic jeff bezos of a new new Origin companies blue origin new origin blue origin. And so at the just a quick background that both of these companies are aiming to take tourists on civil whittle flights above the surface to about a hundred kilometers so and up down trip to one hundred kilometers and at but they do it in different ways. A as we've spoken about before but just very briefly to reiterate or to to recap branson's virgin galactic operates with a up a net craft essentially to take the space bingol up to roundabout sixteen kilometers. Maybe a little bit higher It's a four engine jet very unusual form to fuselage's and a place in between the way you can hang the rocket plane get up to fifteen sixteen kilometers released. The rocket plane if rocket motor. Which accelerates only burns for think ninety seconds. But in that time it was as you up to a roughly roughly Let me think yes about one. Kilometer per second is your. I'm just doing the calculations in my head a little bit more than one kilometer per second which is not high enough to move it. But it's enough to poke you up a very rapidly to this high of one hundred hundred kilometers
KLIF 570 AM
"richard branson" Discussed on KLIF 570 AM
"Billionaire Richard Branson, one of your buddies Branson, Branson, Branson, Branson, Branson, Richard Branson. That's what I said It runs Virgin. The record company. That's right. He runs a record company has confirmed that he is hoping to reach the edge of space before fellow Brazilian hair Jeff Breeze Bezoza. That's Jeff Bezos. Richard Branson. The dueling billionaires each have their own space. How is he, a billionaire? How is Richard Branson? A billionaire? Good question, because I thought the Virgin Store which I don't know if you went to the one in Grapevine Mills Mall, which took up the biggest, I think Retail space You could get. Yeah. Folded completely at everyone like it from here to. I believe downtown New York shut down. The bottom line was with Richard Branson he's had. He's one of these creative entrepreneur types, but he had to have made his money years ago because I don't know what else he's invested in that I can find it would make him a billionaire. Don't know where he's coming up with the money for Virgin Galactic. I have seen him on a couple episodes of shark tank. Maybe it's from those investments. I'm sure of buying the little yellow sponge that is shaped like little animals. I'm sure that's made him a fortune. Then I think he invested in maybe, you know, bird dog shorts or some sure that must be what it is. Now Branson created Virgin Galactic in 2000 and four so he's been added a hot minute. Yeah, Branson just announced that he's launching the next test flight as early as July. 11th. Beating out Bezos. July 20th. Now let me ask you this question. Let's say that Branson flight takes place, but it does not go well ends in death. It ends in a disaster. As basis, then go up on the 20th. No, no, I don't think so. That he'd probably wait. He'd let everybody else go up year. You know, I think he would still do it. But you get that email just I think this is a bad time to do this out of respect for him in some way to rethink this and look at some positives. I think it will just be like a just out of respect. We're just not going to do it. Well, you know, I hope Branson. I hope they both make it hope they both look. Ultimately everybody wants to go up into space. I'd love to go up into space. See what it's like. Here's what's weird. Doesn't that sound like a story that would happen? One of it not go. Yeah, One of it just doesn't go. Well, I like to hope that thing we talk about 40 years from now,.
KOMO
"richard branson" Discussed on KOMO
KOMO
"richard branson" Discussed on KOMO
"Egg in Swiss Crescent Bacon egg in Swiss Crescent and honey butter Chicken biscuit are all just two for $4. Whether today headed for a high of 81 sunny by afternoon, but some clouds to start your day well Saturday and Sunday Sunshine a few clouds on Sunday but highs both days around 80 right now in downtown Seattle, Cloudy and 62. The billionaire space race is heating up as we hear from a B C's Geo Benitez just weeks before Amazon founder Jeff Bezos his history making launch into space, Richard Branson now says he's going to do it. First with his Virgin Galactic space flight Unity 22 astronaut there is there one Richard Branson. Will be evaluating the customer spaceflight experience. It will be the company's first fully crewed spaceflights. Branson will be joined by two pilots and three other mission specialists. Virgin Galactic spacecraft launches from beneath a custom carrier airplane before being shot to the boundary of earth and space, reaching supersonic speeds within eight seconds. Fire fire The window to launch opens July 11th just nine days before Jeff Bezoza launches with his brother and two others aboard Blue origins, New Shepard to see the Earth. From space changes you It changes your relationship with this planet with humanity. It's one Earth one of the seats on that flight selling at auction for $28 million for an 11 minute flight to the edge of the atmosphere and on Thursday bases, announcing that 82 year old Wally Funk Will be his honored guest on that flight. She underwent astronaut training in the sixties but never flew to space. Now, she tells bezoza what she'll say.
77WABC Radio
"richard branson" Discussed on 77WABC Radio
"And so they want to do a hop with the ninth prototype. They did a step. They did a three static fire tests last week in a day three in a daze faces. NASA managed to do one after almost a decade of development, but they did three static fire test of this prototype in one day, and they found the two of the engines had issues. So they need slight repairs, so they're going to switch him out. And they're gonna do additional static fire test before they do the hot. Um, it means they're gonna do more tests before they do the heart. Then they're going to do the hop. And that should happen. Probably next week was so John. That's the assuming everything goes right. Say next week, maybe a week from now they'll do that. That's where it stands right now. This appears to be a positive story about Sir Branson, Sir Richard Branson. It's about Virgin orbit. A company that I have long disdained, but they've had a success. How so, Bob? Well done. You want to stain really is aimed at Virgin Galactic and I have to always remind people these are two different companies out of the Virgin. Companies that Richard Branch in controls that he doesn't stroke Virgin Galactic anymore. It's not his company actually anymore. But Virgin orbit was originally part of Virgin Galactic, and about about five years ago, they separated it out. Andre made it a separate company to launch small stats on an ale launched rocket from a 7 47 on the rocket was called launcher one and back, and they started this development 2000 and 12. They separated the company out about 15. And in 2016. I made a prediction. I said that virginal of it would complete its first commercial launch toe orbit before Virgin Galactic managed his first sub orbital commercial flight, even though Virgin orbit has been in development for half the time. Eight years versus 16. And this past week Virgin orbit made my prediction. True. They managed to successfully put 10 cubes acts into orbit a commercial flight. It was their first success. They now join Rocket lab as a direct competitive for the exact same market for putting small sets into orbit. And this is a good thing, And this is good. This is today. Alan Alan, um, primed to begin to take advantage of this burgeoning small SAT market. They're in a good position to grab market share. And you know it's competition with rock alone. Encourage rocket lab to try to lower the cost and recover. Their first stage is a great thing, and it's a success. Yes, this is an example of Richard Branson company. There's actually chief thing. I should point out that Richard Branson has had almost nothing to do with the development that launcher one when they broke the two companies, pots. They made it one of the separate companies he controls he basically they kept him away from it. He's talked very little about it, and he doesn't make a big deal. He's helped to get them contracts, But he hasn't been a major player in it blew arts. And this is Jeff Bezos, another very well to do and prominent American Bod reminded me the last time when I thought about blue origin is a company that they do a whole lot of publicity. They just don't do a lot of launching. So now they're going to do some launching. What kind, Bob? Well, okay. They had this successful a successful sub over the launch off the of the capsule of New Shepherd. That they say is ready to take. People are into suborbital space. They did that successfully last week, and there was a story this week from CNBC from anonymous sources. So we have to take that with a grain of salt. It says they're targeting their first man sub over the flight. With this Virgin of version version of New Shepherd by April. They're going to do in late February another unmanned test flight and that will finish the unmanned test flights, and they hope to proceed with the man flight in April. I should point out that new Shepherd and blue origin has has mimicked Richard Branson wonderfully in the last 45 years. With lots and lots of lots of promises and not very few deliveries. And so whether this will happen in April remains to be seen. However, they say they have now developed That what they call the stable configuration of new separate, which means they testing it and they don't want to change it anymore. They think it's ready to go. I hope so. I hope they do that on unmanned flights. However, they are, hon. Great pressure right now because it only few months later is gonna be the first tourist open a flight which will make them look really Uh, you know, behind the times at that point, But some years past you published a science fiction story pioneer in which there are colonies on moon, Mars, asteroids and More and at the same time, there's a plot and a subplot about alien contact. I understand this book, this reading book that's available at Barnes and Noble and Amazon is now to be transformed. How so? Well, Okay, I wrote an essay on behind the Black this week because I worry about what the future's going to be because of me order to really have successful colonies in space quickly. You really need three factors. You need freedom. You need private enterprise, which means to free people on what they do. And you also need courage, because being a pioneer is risky Business on average of 5 to 10% off all Settlers in North America died in trying to establish their homes and farms and businesses in the West. 5 to 10% 5%, of all people who went out on a sailing ship always died. 5% more ships sank. So and people accepted that risk. And then you know, we have a flu this year that only 1% doesn't even kill 1/10 of 1% of the population. And yet we shut down our society and everyone's got a way of mask and we panicked and Oh, my God, we're all gonna die. So I wonder. Well, First of all, we're all moving to a global, powerful governments that a squelching freedom and private enterprise at the same time. Also do. We have the courage to fly. And this is what pioneer was all about, have those three things and that those three things will allow you to have colonies and um, of human settlement of the solar system. Within 200 years, And that's what the book was about in the context of first contact with alien story. Well, when I published a book two years ago, a gang a Japanese game produced contacted me and the last two years we've been developing a graphic are graphic. Novel style video game based upon the book, and there will be a crowd sourcing Crowdfunding campaign to begin in just a short while, approximately a month maybe a little longer, but in not very long into the future, and I'll have announcements. I'm behind it. Black. If you people went in to donate and help this kick start this this game they'll get, of course rewards both from the producers as well as for me personally from supporting John. That's the future of ceremony keeps the website behind the black When we come back, we're going exploring on Mars. And also on the moon. I'm John Bachelor..