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Richard Branson Holds Press Conference After Becoming First Billionaire To Fly His Own Ship To Space - YouTube
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see you guys
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all right this was the morning wasn't it
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this morning we are going to remember
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for the rest of our lives
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i'm really grateful i'm really honored
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to be with you here
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look at the setting i saw governor lujan
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grisham earlier
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there is no better place to go to space
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than new mexico
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[Applause]
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there goes uh
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i'm still kind of speechless from it all
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how about you guys
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it is there well we did
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something incredible today is years in
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the making
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almost a couple decades in the making
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it couldn't have been done without the
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hundreds of people
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over a thousand over a thousand before
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we got through
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uh with everything getting done here and
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just to congratulations to the team
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for all of you who are watching online
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uh you'll see a few of us on stage
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but this was made up by thousands and
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we're incredibly thankful to this team
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so
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great job everybody
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you know there's there's one person in
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the virgin galactic family
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who's not here today but who is an
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incredible incredible force and guiding
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light for us
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and that was professor stephen hawking
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and stephen hawking was an inspiration
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to
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many of the team at virgin galactic he
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was an inspiration to richard through
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the years
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and many people don't know but stephen
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hawking
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actually named our spaceship unity
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he's an incredible person and at a
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moment like this
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i think the words that should introduce
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our astronauts
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should be the words that stephen hawking
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himself spoke in 2016
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when we rolled out our spaceship unity
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uh so with that
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if we could please hear uh from the
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amazing stephen hawking
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i have always dreamed of space flight
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but for so many years i thought it was
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just that
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a dream but i had reckoned without the
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dream of another
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a man with a vision and persistence to
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open up space flight for ordinary
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earth-bound citizens
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richard branson made it his mission to
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make space flight a reality
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for those intrepid enough to venture
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beyond the boundaries of the earth's
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atmosphere
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the first private astronauts will be
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pioneers
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we are entering a new space age and i
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hope this will help to create a new
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unity
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space exploration has already been a
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great unifier
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taking more and more passengers out into
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space
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will enable them enough to look both
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outwards and back
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but with a fresh perspective in both
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directions
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so
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right
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okay
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[Applause]
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i was upside down a few minutes ago so
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excuse me
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um anyway uh what a day what a day what
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a day what a day
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um and i'm not sure whether stephen
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hawkins says words of play but
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it was such an honor knowing him and
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such an honor
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having him uh as an astronaut um
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he decided to go up there before us um
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but it is lovely to still have his words
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with us um incredible honor to have
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chris hadfield with us um you will all
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remember
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uh his beautiful playing of a guitar
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from space give him a round of applause
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[Applause]
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congratulations
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i think like like uh most kids i have
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dreamt of this moment since i was a
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kid and but honestly nothing could
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prepare you for
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uh the view of earth from space um
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i mean oh the whole thing it was just
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magical and suddenly
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you're looking down and you're seeing
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three people looking up at you
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hang on man what are you doing down
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there
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um they uh that we have this
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incredible earth anyway i'll i'm just
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taking it all in it's just
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unreal um i was so honored um
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to test the customer experience so
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initially i thought
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testing the customer experience was a
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little bit of a an excuse to get
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to get me on it wasn't there's it's so
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great to just get out there
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test the customer experience you get
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lists and lists of little things and
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there's the little details that matter
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so
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we're gonna now have no details to sort
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out with this space line
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um this remarkable crew
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of mission specialists and now any
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second now
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no now and now astronauts
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um they are a complete delight
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uh to have flown with um and uh yeah it
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was just
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we've had such a great time um
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an enormous thank you obviously to our
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incredible spaceship pilots
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and um and anton mothership pilots
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um i think i i think they must
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i don't know where they are if they're
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here they should come and join us on
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stage
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uh they uh anyway just say to say oh and
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obviously sorry beth colin and seresha
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if you
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if you didn't know who they were um
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anyway thanks to all of you for um being
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here at spaceport america um
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it's hot i'm sorry but thank you for
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standing out here
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um the spaceport is the most stunning
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uh building uh when you come come in the
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morning and see this thing emerging from
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the desert
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um i think it could be one of one of the
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10 wonders of the world so
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it's so so awesome to arrive on a
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bicycle and
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and to this across this beautiful new
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mexico countryside and
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um thank you thank you uh to um new
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mexico for hosting us for building this
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for
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for everything
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um khalid thank you for performing
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um they we loved hello
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and he's he was his lovely wife come up
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come on
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there there
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right
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this beautiful new baby will be born
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this month um
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and this beautiful baby was born a
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couple of years ago
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um and um
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and thank you for letting him come with
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us
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they um uh i just would also like to
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thank
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my my wonderful beautiful wife joan
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who's
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hopefully here somewhere um yeah we've
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been to we've been lucky enough to
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have been together forever is she there
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for 45 wonderful wonderful years and
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we've been very
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very blessed and we've got holly and sam
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here
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uh our grandchildren and um
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pretty well uh everything uh everything
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and all my
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lots of friends sadly none from england
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so to you
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and we'll we'll get you out here one day
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but
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love you lots all of you um and i just
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finally i know i said it from the
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spaceship but i want to say thank you
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thank you thank you thank you to every
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single person who's
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believed in virgin galactic uh the team
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who have worked
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so hard to make this dream come true uh
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love you all
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it's a 17 years of painstaking work and
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the occasional horrible down but by and
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large
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ups ups with it and and today was
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definitely the biggest up
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uh so thank you all of you and love you
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all
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so uh the mission statement that i wrote
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inside my space suit was to
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uh turn the dream of space travel into a
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reality for
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uh my grandchildren who are here for
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your grandchildren
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uh and for many people who are alive
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today for everybody
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um and having flown to space i can see
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even more clearly how
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virgin galactic is the space line for
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earth
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um we're here to make space more
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accessible to
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all all and we want to turn the next
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generation of
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dreamers into the astronauts of
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uh today and tomorrow um we've all
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of us on this stage have just had the
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most extraordinary experience
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and we'd love it if a number of you can
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have it too
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and with that in mind i have some news
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so
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today virgin galactic is thrilled to
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announce that we have partnered with
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a to open space for everyone
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so if you go to omaze.com i think um
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space to enter um
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uh you have a chance to go to space and
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every donation
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supports uh a charity called space for
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humanity
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uh and you'll be entered into the amaze
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uh sweepstakes for the chance to win
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not one but two seats aboard one of the
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first commercial
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virgin galactic space flight
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and uh with my willy wonka hat on
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a guided tour of spaceport america given
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by
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yours truly and i promised lots of
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chocolate in the factory
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i mean the exciting thing about this is
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that if enough people all over the world
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participate
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it just means we can just keep on you
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know the charity can keep on uh
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doing tickets for people so it's a
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lovely sort of self-propelling
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uh self-propelling um uh yeah
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way of just trying to get lots of people
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who couldn't have otherwise afforded to
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go to space to go to space
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um so just imagine a world
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where people of all ages all backgrounds
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from
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anywhere of any gender of any ethnicity
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have equal access to space and they will
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in turn i think
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inspire us back here on earth if you've
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ever
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ever had a dream now is the time to make
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it come true
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and i'd just like to end by saying
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welcome to the dawn of a new space age
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thank you that
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okay thank you let's do um wings now
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it's it has been a tremendous
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day here in new mexico uh a beautiful
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sunny day and it's the time of year
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where from the sycamores and the maples
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the little keys
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after having worked so hard to grow
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vertically
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are going to detach from the mother ship
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of their tree
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and float and tumble and plant a seed
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somewhere else and the wings that are
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the virgin galactic wings that i have
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the huge privilege
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of pinning on the crew are those
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sycamore
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seeds and the sycamore wings it's just a
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beautiful
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acknowledgement of the work and the
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passion
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and the risk and the accomplishment of
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everybody here
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and specifically these four new
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astronauts so
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if i could have you come up first here
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please all right
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[Applause]
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everybody sharisa bandler
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astronaut
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get this in the right hand tremendous
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honor
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lovely that your family is here there
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you go sir
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ladies and gentlemen colin bennett
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astronaut
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and as part of the historic unit 22
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unity 22 flight
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ladies and gentlemen it is beth moses
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astronaut
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and i don't know of anyone on earth
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with the wild vision
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the confidence where so many people
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don't have it
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the uh willingness to take chances the
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tenacity to follow it through
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and the chance then to celebrate with
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everyone than this man sitting next to
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me
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and so it's it's a ridiculous honor for
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me sir to be able
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to give you something that you have
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earned so so handily
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thank you thank you nice chest richard
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that's good
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[Applause]
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ladies and gentlemen this here is
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sir richard branson astronauts
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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congratulations
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congratulations guys no thanks well done
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thanks for coming out well done
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the ship okay
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[Applause]
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really oh yeah
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i'll get out of the way
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bottle spray technique
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i'll just go give this to somebody
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just yeah
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um
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thank you so much
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you
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