here to talk about this and where the space business is going back, sir richard branson, virgin orbit, and dan hart, the ceo. thank you very much for your time. we are looking forward to talking about all of this. sir richard, i went to get an update on how you are feeling. i understand you have been hit with this omicron over the last few days. how are you coping with it, and does this change your attitude towards testing when it comes to travel? richard: i am feeling great. we've had about 30 family beer -- family embers and friends get omicron over the last few weeks. fortunately, none of them have had it worse than the common cold. my wife didn't even realize she had it. so i think the positive thing is that we were all vaccinated and boosted, and i think as long as people can get vaccinated and boosted, it is likely that for the vast majority, you are hardly going to know you have it. alix: one click follow on that. does it change how you feel about testing to go on vacation and go on airlines? it is quite confusing to figure out what is what. richard: i think the british governm

virgin group founder sir richard branson who shot into space last summer now he's taking a different gin orbit ceo dan hart, who's ringing today's opening bell good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> richard, let me start with you, i saw your tweet yesterday. i know you've got covid. i understand you're recovering how are you doing this morning >> i'm great we're very lucky i've had about 30 family and friends who have had it, all of us were in countries where you could get vaccinated and also get the booster. and i would say for all of us, it's really no worse than the common cold. a little tickle in the throat. so we're -- we're all -- we've all bounced back and so, just thanks to the wonders of science, anyway we're very grateful. >> and one space company apparently wasn't enough virgin orbit, for folks who are not familiar with the company, tell us more about it. >> well, we like to create things which are completely unique, an air launch system to be able to put rockets into space from anywhere in the world, any time in any orbit has never existed. so we

michael: richard branson has plans to develop commercial spacecraft for space tourism.eveloping rockets to carry humans into space and spacecraft to deliver cargo to the moon. jeff: we have here as an example, a very large rover and by the way, even though that's a large rover, this vehicle can land four of them simultaneously on the surface of the moon. brad: it isn't just spacex. there's other companies like blue origin coming online as well, private companies and smaller groups in australia, or rocket labs in new zealand, for instance, that is all making that cost cheaper. i like to think of it's like airplane travel. we spent the longest time having one costly airline, but now we have a bunch of budget carriers that are making it effective. adam: we live on this little dot and what's out there is just massive, and i wanna explore what's out there and see it. michael: australian entrepreneur, adam gilmour, is building one of those budget carriers. adam: all right, guys, we're going soon. michael: five years ago, he cashed in a lucrative career as an international ban

they will think we were awesome. >> elon musk's lead evaporated when richard branson and jeff bezos joined> it looked like bezos would be the first into space. branson was like good for you. but i will go 9 days earlier: if you listen closely you can hear bezos breaking everything in his billion dollars office. >> [screaming]. >> branson space ship 2 rockets to the stars. branson the first billionaire in space. >> [inaudible]. >> not quite one small step, but it will do. you would think a billionaire could hire better writers. 9 days later bezos the second billionaire in space. the choices that bezos made to go with him on his main voyage in space a little odd. an 18-year-old physics student from the netherlands. 82-year-old female astronaut who was never in space and his brother. >> i could see the mother being involved. >> if you going to space bring your brother. where is elon musk? in september they shot 4 civilians in a rocket into space. they orbited the earth. in scientific terms elon musk far exceeded the other guys. elon musk was not on board. maybe he is not as crazy as you think

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sir richard branson and dan hart, thank you so much for joining us >> meantime, next week, don't missge of the health conference, the grand daddy of health care conferences. plus, check out the ride-sharing names both bullish on uber, losing early gains and down grades lyft as they're in the narrow range, down 17. today, your customers want it all. you have to deal with higher expectations and you have to lower wait times. with ibm, you can do both. your business can unify apps and data across your clouds. so you can address supply chain issues in real time, before they impact your bottom line. predicting and managing operational issues that's why so many businesses work with ibm. >>> time for our etf spotlight xlc up about 14% in the last year but down 6% in the last three months at&t have the top holding and wells does upgrade from underweight to equal weight. they say the bear cases largely played out expect sustained strength in the core wireless business and the stock has had a nice run, up almost 12% >> well, it's time now for a news update. hi, leslie >> hey, morgan, good morni

richard branson went to space over the summer.galactic has not carried a single paying passenger. they hope to start flying the backlog of famous passengers by the end of 2022, including justin bieber, lady gaga and tom hanks. each paying $250,000. elon musk plans to test his starship rocket that nasa hopes to use to send astronauts to the moon later this decade. some of the astronauts could be in the class of 2021, just announced. ten candidates chosen from 12,000 applicants. jeff bezos blue origin plans to continue to take passengers to quick rides to space. but blue origin's new project is this, a floating business park ready in five to eight years. >> two, one. >> reporter: but the coolest mission of 2022, nasa's dart. it will purposely crash into an ath roid's moon. >> the dark mission is to hit an asteroid and see if we can move it. >> reporter: using that know-how, to put asteroids that are headed for earth. >> we want to learn what happens when you crash a spacecraft high-speed into an asteroid. >> the u.s. is not alone. c

coming up, richard branson's orbit taking flight on the nasdaq as the spaceflight operator prepares for that is next. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ emily: virgin orbit heading skyward. the commercial spaceflight company began on the nasdaq. it is one of several companies launching low-level satellites. the company is planning a lot of firsts in 2022. >> for our company, we pierce to the pandemic -- pierced the pandemic and drove a new technology into space launch. we penetrated the market more than we ever have. we saw a deal with ana airlines with 20 launches out of japan. we signed agreements with new space technology companies for hyperspectral imaging of the earth. quantum encryption from space. boeing, other companies. it is a very exciting time for us. we need to continue to do that, and that is what we plan to do. there is a rocket in the mohave getting ready for launch over the next few days. we have a bunch coming behind it. we have the first launch of the u.k. -- out of the u.k. this year. we can launch from premature near port that can handle a 747. >> one is going to be deeper spac

richard branson spoke to bloomberg on friday. >> our company, we pierced the pandemic and drove a newinto space launch. we have to continue to do that. in the last eight weeks, we penetrated the market. out of japan, we signed agreements with new space companies like hyper set or hyperspectral imaging of the earth. quantum encryption from space. speier, boeing, other companies. it is an exciting time for us. we need to continue to do this and we have a rocket in mohave ready for launch. we will launch that. we have lodges coming behind it. we have the first launch out of the u.k. coming this year. we can launch from pretty much any airport that can handle a 747 across the world. >> we will be circling back with you guys for the u.k. launch. there are different aspects to space, what is deeper space exploration by going to the moon and one is low-earth orbit. that is satellites that are closer to earth. that is where the fundamental moneymaking ability is wood to be. -- is going to be. >> the market for space is growing to be well over $1 trillion from about $400 million right now in t

. >> richard branson going where no billionaire has gone before. >> 24 hours from now, jeff bezos willto the heavens. >> space-x senior director says the company saw an increase from people who wanted to buy a private spacecraft. clearly, there are a lot of rich people out there, much richer than the rest of us. >> first of all, this is relatable. after a year of lockdown, i was ready to blast into space, too. and these billionaires don't even live next to an apartment with a poodle yapping all damn day! just poop in the house, mr. sprinkles. nobody cares. your owners are nasty anyway. still, can't get these rich dudes to calm down? i guess for these guys, you're not rich unless everyone knows you're rich-- human, martians, klingon, the worms from doom, whatever the hel chewbacca is, everybody! i don't understand why their rockets keep going up and landing back on earth again. if you're going to get the ( bleep ) out. get the ( bleep ) out. you keep coming and going. listen, i'm going to start charging you a cover charge. and no, we're not going to give you a wrist band, either. you'll

this report has had input from some business leaders such as james dyson answer richard branson, andgs they were highlighting, timekeeping, resilience and self—motivation because those are going to be brilliant life skills whatever you do, will be going to something commercially driven or not. and certainly within my line of work, self—motivation and resilience are really important factors to carry you throughout life. resilience in particular has been a great demand in the last two years during the pandemic. so we could have really encouraged people at school to develop that skill set and it would've done this a real benefit in the last two years. the it would've done this a real benefit in the last two years.— in the last two years. the report also sa s in the last two years. the report also says that — in the last two years. the report also says that james _ in the last two years. the report also says that james dyson - in the last two years. the report | also says that james dyson came at one of people they have asked to inputs as a country is ill—equipped to train engineers part

. >> reporter: billionaires richard branson, jeff bezos, and elon musk bringing commercial space travelarth. on his first trip elon musk brought along one of the female astronauts that never flew. then captain kirk himself. 90-year-old william shatner choked up with emotion after landing back on earth. >> what you have given me is the most profound experience i can ask. >> reporter: on september 15th it was the four civilian astronauts on board a spacex rocket that made space history on a three-day orbit around the world. >> we can see the entire perimeter of the earth, which is so beautiful. >> reporter: the trip, part of a fund-raiser for st. jude children's hospital where crew member haley was treated for childhood cancer. space tourism is still way out of reach for most of us earth linkings. >> it's important for you that this becomes accessible to everybody. >> that's why we started it. i think ultimately the price will come down to a level where an awful lot of people will be able to do it. >> reporter: but bezos and musk aren't content with joyrides around the earth. musk's space

. >> reporter: billionaires richard branson, jeff bezos, bringing space travel back to us on earth.ht along 82-year-old wally funk, one of the original female mercury astronauts who never flew. and then captain kirk himself, 90-year-old william shatner choked up with emotion after landing back on earth. >> what you have given me is the most profound experience i can imagine. and then a spacex rocket made history on a three-day orbit around the world. >> we can see the entire parameter of the earth, which is so beautiful. >> reporter: the trip, part of a fundraiser for st. jude hospital where a crew member was treated for cancer as a child. but with prices starting at $250 million per seat, it's out of reach for earthlings. >> it's important for this to become accessible to everybody? >> that's why we started it. ultimately the price will come down to a level where an awful lot of people will be able to do it. >> reporter: but bezos and musk aren't content with joyrides around the earth. musk's spacex won a nasa contract for its star ship to carry astronauts to the surface of the moo

sir richard branson's newly public virgin orbit is set to launch seven satellites into space this afternoonhat launch set for 2:00 p.m. pacific time, but its shares are tanking, so are its sister company, virgin galactic down 18.8% after announcing plans to raise up to $500 million in new debt that's not a good thing for shareholders, and looking for love online, before heading out to the bar? that trend continues this year, that according to goldman sachs, they upgraded online dating companies match and bumble to buy citing ample growth for the industry this year. a mixed decision here match shares down half of 1% but bumble up about 1.5%. well as covid cases spike businesses are seeing worker shortages one p can in california is combating that by employing robots. the first to complete the first- ever uber eats delivery without human supervision. kelly o'grady is going to tell us how it's all done and she's live in a fox business exclusive hey, kelly. reporter: hey, lauren. yup, i'm at the headquarters. this is where the robots come back to sleep every night after they have been hard at w

. >> reporter: like when richard branson and jeff bezos launched themselves into orbit.en he came back to earth... >> i want to thank every amazon employee -- >> reporter: he wanted to thank amazon employees and costumers because you paid for all of this. >> yeah. >> reporter: what was your reaction to this? >> i threw up in my mouth a little bit. the idea that he even understands the insults that he was making there, when he said, thank you for paying for my trip to outerspace for -- what was it, 20 minutes? he didn't hear what he was saying, and there wasn't a single employee at the ground level who didn't take that as an insult. a lot of costumers took it as an insult. >> reporter: the wealth gap has reached st stratpheric levels. it has led some to consider: maybe you can be too rich. professor ingrid teaches philosophy at the czechoslovakia university in the netherlands. define libertarianism. >> libertarianism is just the words for the thought there should be a moral limit to how much wealth you can accumulate. so the idea that it is fine to be well off, but at som

this is after a huge 31% spike in trading yesterday the other richard branson founded a space companyorbital mission, the above the clouds launch, which is now targeting tomorrow afternoon it was delayed by a day and trading well above $12 a share pretty notable given some of the movers we've seen in this area of the market in reeceants weeks. >> time for our etf spotlight. as we look at semis. ticker xsd, and ambarella upgraded to overweight, says they have an attractive valuation after a recent pullback as we got a bunch of target increases as well for amd, marvel ♪ ♪ wow, we're crunching tons of polygons here! what's going on? where's regina? hi, i'm ladonna. i invest in invesco qqq, a fund that gives me access to the nasdaq-100 innovations, like real time cgi. okay... yeah... oh. don't worry i got it! become an agent of innovation with invesco qqq >>> welcome back and here is your cnbc update at this hour. the lawsuit against prince andrew will proceed. a federal lawsuit rejects the bid to dismiss the suit. it accuses him of sexually abusing him oand being traffic by jeffrey epste

. >> reporter: billionaires richard branson, jeff bezos, and elon musk bringing commercial space travelf the original female "mercury" astronauts who never flew. then captain kirk himself, 90-year-old william shatner choked up with emotion after landing back on earth. >> what you have given me is the most profound experience i can ask. >> reporter: on september 15th it was the four civilian astronauts on board a spacex rocket who made history on a three-day orbit around the world. >> we can see the entire perimeter of the earth, which is so beautiful. >> reporter: the trip, part of a fund-raiser for st. jude children's hospital where crew member hayley arceneaux was treated for cancer as a child. but with prices starting at $250,000 per seat, space tourism is still way out of reach for most of us earthlings. >> it's important to you that this becomes accessible to everybody. >> that's why we started it. i think ultimately -- ultimately the price will come down to a level where an awful lot of people will be able to do it. >> reporter: but bezos and musk aren't content with joyrides arou

was something president biden promised to put back on the agenda and look, if jeff bezos and richard bransonever happened and no women on a bill in my lifetime. i would like to see that before i turn 99. >> i need tubmans in my pockets and the $20 bill, i agree. really tight on time. so you and i have to split our time. i'll give you, what's your who got next? >> who got next for 2022 is african american bioafrican medsis. when we talk about racism, gun violence and the impact on black people, we stand on the shoulders of men and women who study this quietly digging through the paperwork and documentation. one of the best voices passed yesterday. dr. carlton haywood. he was part of the ebony 100. one of the most brilliant minds when it comes to discussing biomedical ethics and he passed, due to sickle cell, that affects 200,000 americans every single year. brilliant, he loved comic books, loved by his family, and he was my best friend. and i hope that all the people doing the kind of work that makes aware of the danger to provide to black people will continue and the pathways and steps he la