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Richard Branson Becomes 1st Billionaire In Space - YouTube
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release release release
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this morning the space race between
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billionaires has
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a winner that is a full duration burn
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folks we are headed to space
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blasting off 46 000 feet above the new
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mexico desert on sunday
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at speeds over 2300 miles per hour
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sir richard branson and a crew of five
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others aboard virgin galactic's unity
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spaceship
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soaring to the edge of space welcome to
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space unity 22
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the journey 17 years in the making and a
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lifelong dream for branson
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i was once a child with a dream looking
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up to the stars
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now i'm an adult in a spaceship their
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flight reaching
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and a half miles high affording the crew
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roughly four minutes of weightlessness
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and a truly out of this world view
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before
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descending and returning home it's a
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complete experience for lifetime
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and now i'm looking down at a beautiful
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spaceport
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more than an hour after takeoff and
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there
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is full stop a moment to rejoice
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a perfect landing followed by triumphant
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celebration back on earth
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we spoke exclusively with branson and
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his children holly and sam
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sir richard congratulations how are you
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i i will come down with the bump soon
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did it live up to your expectations and
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your hopes
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i've always dreamt about what it would
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be like to be
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in space looking back at this incredible
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earth it's impossible to describe just
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how
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magnificent it is the entrepreneur
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adding a new title to his resume
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civilian astronaut and he has the
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hardware to prove it
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show us the wings you worked hard for
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these i'm afraid nobody will ever be
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able to take them away from us once
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you're an astronaut you're always an
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astronaut
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his excitement uncontainable
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though for branson's family it was
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nerves that were sky high
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i don't think i would be a loving son if
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i wasn't worried
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i knew fundamentally they were going to
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come back but it's quite hard when your
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dad's going to do something so
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pioneering that no one else has really
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done i only did it to
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see whether she loved me virgin
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galactic's first
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full passenger test flight comes just
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nine days before jeff
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bezos is expected to climb inside his
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blue origin rocket
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the amazon founder congratulating his
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competitors adding
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can't wait to join the club i hope that
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he has an extraordinary experience as we
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do things are looking great
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now a new goal cutting down that quarter
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of a million dollar price tag for a ride
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doing so could make space tourism a
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possibility for the masses
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and allow everyone to see the world from
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this
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new perspective to the next generation
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of dreamers
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if we can do this just
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imagine what you can do
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yeah so if you can't afford the 250 000
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price tag
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a virgin galactic now announcing that it
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is a partnering up
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with the platform called amaze the
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fundraising platform
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and launching the sweepstakes two
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tickets to the edge of space and
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gla and he will take you himself on a
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tour through the entire operation
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on the ground and launch you up to the
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edge of space
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kind of fun guys back to you all right
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well tom you mentioned
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uh jeff bezos obviously also planning to
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go to space what more do we know about
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that flight and the timeline
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yeah so blue origin jeff bezos set to
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take off on july
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20th they're still waiting for faa
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approval for that flight virgin got
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approval
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two weeks before their flight i'm told
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that they could get from faa sources
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they could get that approval
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very soon in the next couple of days all
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right we'll be watching tom thank you
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very much
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