but what was your sense of branson? publicity? i want to do something different or how dedicated was he quick. >> i think he was very dedicated. >> surprisingly frankly. >> here is the reason why. it's important to go back and realize the centrality of this boutique aviation firm the first built spaceship two and one. it explains why mike made that mistake in 2014 and why there were not all these failed states built into the spaceship so we remind in 1996 there is a contest the first private leave built spacecraft to reach space twice in two weeks. so in 2000 for the contest is about to expire and here comes a small aviation firm they build spaceship one smaller version of spaceship to and use the unique airlines configuration it goes to space three times that year to make the two qualifying spaceflights in two weeks. so they have proven you can do this branson comes around and says all but a million dollars to the project in the end and puts the virgin logo on the side of spaceshipone and earns the right to commission to build a

elon musk, richard branson. longer term we might because governments have no explicit mission to develop space tourism so we would be stuck in the longer terms, yes. where next? 0bviously stuck in the longer terms, yes. where next? obviously this is to take clients, tourists to enter space. the international space station i guess is under the radar and eventually. abs, the radar and eventually. holiday in mars? yes, so of course jeff bezos holiday in mars? yes, so of coursejeff bezos and richard branson go to about 100 kilometres away from earth and elon musk, of course, is planning to take people to the international space station, which is over 400 kilometres away from earth and those tickets will be costing over 55 million us dollars and the duration would be about ten days so that is a whole different level of experience and, of course, these entrepreneurs dream big and they do want to take people on holidays to mars when the technology is available and safe. in technology is available and safe. ., technolog

the first, its founder, richard branson.lan to offer orbital lunar and orbital trips in the next 24 months or so. and also offering trips up to the international space station. you can go to spacex right now and email their team and ask or inquire about a team into space. the difference with virgin galactic is they are focused. they don't have other commercial activities like starlink with spacex or other operations like blue origin and spacex are vying for. emily: meantime, you broke a story that tesla is testing lid ar from a company, which is interesting because elon musk has pushed back on the use of the system. tell us what we know? ed: we know that tesla and the company has an agreement where tesla can use their tech for testing and development. we don't believe it goes beyond that. we think tesla could be benchmarking their self-driving system against the technology. as you said, elon musk has been very critical of the need for lidars. wares academics go, no, it is a central part of the self-driving autonomy. so there

if you are richard branson going up in one of these things, how much stuff do you have to wear?ng do you actually need to be able to get on board? within a year upon time, this is kind of you and i or maybe me could go on this thing. how much training do i need? i'm assuming i don't need that kind of training. alix: also, is there going to be an age limit at some point? guy: are you saying i'm getting too old for this? alix: i'm just saying, i guess you clearly have to be in really good health. guy: i imagine you have to have a physical. i would imagine that probably is part of it. i imagine there are quite significant forces that are exerted. that probably is going to be something you would want to check out. alix: doesn't that limit again the exposure to people who can actually do this? i can't believe we just felt five minutes talking about space. guy: are there better things to be talking about today? i can't think of a single one. virgin galactic is coming up. we have also got willie walsh coming up as well. we are going to be talking to willie about what is happening with

billionaire richard branson is --will get into suborbital space sometime this summer.ther part of it is being able to sell seats to paying passengers. that is the business ultimately virgin galactic so they have to make those sales. tom: what else do you have? >> cabin oil and gas. tom: too little companies. >> a 7.3 billion dollar all stock deal where the cabin shares are being combining with simerex each company's investors will have half the stock and the cabinet ceo will be the chairman of the combined company and cimarex will take on the ceo role. it looks more like a merger than your typical deal which they described as a merger of equals. tom: thank you so much. lisa is all over this story. jonathan: parents across the city and the state are listening. the new york mayor saying all students will be back in school in september. there will be no remote option for learning for public schools in september. he says parents and students can visit schools in june and schools will not offer a remote option to students. the schools will return. it will be one hundred per

it is competing with elon musk's spacex and richard branson's virgin galactic. i'm mark crumpton.his is bloomberg. romaine: all come back to "what'd you miss?" -- welcome back to "what'd you miss?" we have seen a four-day drop now in the nasdaq composite. whatever happened to art? why don't we talk about that anymore? joe: i think the speculative juices have flown out of art into doge. this was so hot, still a little bit above those market lows, but i don't know. it is not the prettiest chart. romaine: still a good-looking chart if you got in in march. joe: it is just lines to me. for more, let's bring in kriti gupta. regardless of the technical parts, hot momentum trades that had, like, six months from october to september, really, they just continue to be the story. kriti: absolutely. it is such a boring answer, but the answer is that his is a rotation trade. people are pulling their funds out of some of these big tech names, but there are several other etf's that track tech indexes, and they are pulling money out. some of it will be repositioning. some of it will be a little bi

i figure if richard branson, who i am sure is very fit and healthy, could do it, i can do it.lix: sure. just start saving the cash. kids don't need school. no problem. keep doing that. [laughter] alix: this is bloomberg. guy: absolutely. looks fun, doesn't it? alix: no. terrifying. i can't look at it. ♪ rikita: it is time for the bloomberg business flash. wall street banks spent the pandemic making record profits. now, they have to explain why they have not deploy more of that money to help americans. the heads of the biggest funds will be before congress this week, planning to highlight the industry's role in marshaling government assistance programs that doled out hundreds of billions of dollars in stimulus. a company is expanding its partnership with the u.s.-based force and u.s. air force. the data mining software company rose after announcing the contract. palantir is down 45% from its january peak. more than half of workers in london's financial district may now be traveling back to the office. lockdown measures begin using in the u.k. but they are still working from hom

definitely delaying test flights especially the one with richard branson on board.e unprecedented. people have more time to hit the golf links and hit the golf course, being locked down to enjoy the beautiful skies. check on the megacap tech names, apple, microsoft, leading losses that we're seeing on the broader market. a big drag when it comes to the dow. s&p, nasdaq, since there is such big companies. when they fall they take the broader markets along with them. ashley: certainly do. wish i was out on the links today too. susan: we all do. where is stuart? ashley: hmmm, i wonder, probably on the fourth hole by now. anyway, susan, thank you very much. >>> comedian dave chappelle has some advice for the woke mob. listen to this. >> no one can be woke enough. you're not going to nag people into behaving. in fact, if you continue with this tone even if you're right, you will be very hard to hear. ashley: he is absolutely right. we'll tell you what else he had to say including about eel loon elon musk. teachers union president randi winegarten dodging when asked about

we know he isn't a race with elon musk and richard branson. going to win in the space race too? brad: there is a chapter on blue origin. remarkable story, 20 years. they like to say step-by-step ferociously. they have the suborbital spaceship. a couple of years ago, they said they would start test selling tickets and it did not happen. they are not winning. it turned out that it was a race and spacex got there first. they are about to launch again and botching to orbit, pulling off impressive feats all of the time. i think blue origin has fallen behind. there could be many winners but there is a lot to prove their. emily: then there is winning among amazon's own workers. there is a new piece out today talking about the policies amazon has for its contract drivers down to their fingernail grooming and body odors. clearly, there seems to be continued agitation on the worker front. many workers are likely happy, but there are also these stories that continue to resurface. brad: this is a complex issue. i get into a quite a bit in the book. let me

they want to have richard branson, the owner billionaire, test out what it is like to be a private customereel weightlessness for a short period of time. then they plan to charge a lot of money to do it. they are several years away from being able to do that. emily: we are watching. ed ludlow, good to see you. he is called the most powerful unelected man in america and it may stay that way for now. at its annual shareholder meeting, facebook rejected two proposals intended to diminish ceo mark zuckerberg's control over the company. here with more details, bloomberg's naomi next. naomi, some investors have called for mark zuckerberg costs -- mark zuckerberg's power to be curbed. that is not happening. why not? naomi: the rub for investors frustrated with the level of power mark zuckerberg has is, mark zuckerberg controls the majority of the shares on the board. whatever he recommends, the board do on various proposals, that is the way the board votes. once again, he likely voted against proposals to curb his own power. emily: what does this mean? at least for the next year, nothing is changi

the focus, richard branson's space flight company citing the need to analyze wear and tear issues forts mother ship which is what launches the rocket to the edge of space. meantime, palantir, reversing course after starting the morning lower. it is now up 5 % earnings matched revenue beat the company says it expects annual revenue growth of 30 % or more through 2025. and finally, l brands. deciding to spin off the victoria secret operation. the company will split into two separate public companies. victoria secret and bad and body works. the shares are down almost 3%. >> after an incredible run >> let's get to rick santelli. we are to put it well off the lows this morning. >> yeah. premarket panic sometimes get bought in the morning. still plenty of time left in the day to see how this shakes out but really, i think mostly you can characterize what's been going on for a while as a choppy transition from secular growth tech into other areas. there's a gauge on what the downside has been in march and april and may. down 41.20 is the line that separates routine pullback from something th

. >>> a small step from branson. virgin with the first space flight in years as he looks to take on elon musk in the billionaire space raise. >>> history in south carolina and pga and phil mickelson age ain't nothing but a number so tee it up this is "worldwide exchange. ♪ >>> good morning, good afternoon, good evening. welcome from wherever in the world you may be watching. happy monday i'm brian sullivan thank you for joining us there is a lot to do on this monday let's get to it. crypto collapse over the weekend is the market story. let's begin with that. we are seeing a pretty decent move off the weekend lows. remember, crypto, unlike stocks, doesn't take the weekend off we are seeing a move higher right now off the low. that is key. off the low. bitcoin is $36,500 up 10% from the low. it was below $32,000 at one point yesterday. ripple, ethereum and litecoin. ethereum is at $2,280. ethereum was over $4,000 a couple of weeks ago. all of this coming off the worst week since march losing 42% and 47%. with the excep

the plan is to get virgin galactic's billionaire founder richard branson into space in the next few months top of that to be able to start signing up passengers who would pay for their seats. they are able to generate some revenue from the test flight, but that is not with the business is. it's all about space tourism. though the idea that they can move in that direction, it is something they really need to do. you look at how much they have lost, something like $600 million in the last three fiscal years, and then figure in what analysts anticipate for this year at next, you're looking at more like $1.1 billion. there has certainly been a lotta volatility. people anticipated they were going to get this test flight off, then it was postponed. now it finally happened, so it's a matter of how the business unfolds from here. we're talking about a business in the end, not just the latest and greatest in space. kailey: right. that brings me to a question i have come in that we love space on bloomberg television. we are constantly watching spacex launches and this was virgin galactic's first fli

and blue origin both talking about flying their first people paying customers, and maybe richard branson in new mexico, in the first people are supposed to launch july 20 on the blue origin craft. it is becoming a very vital vibrant time for human spaceflight. haidi: we are getting some more pictures as that once continues. we have had had successful on-time shutdowns for the engines. [indiscernible] approximately 10 kilometers in altitude. where we go from here, they are performing a propellant transmission. those of the things that hold the landing propellant, they are reorienting themselves for the reentry and hopefully coming in down for that controlled aerodynamic. . last time and other times is where we ran into a few issues. there has been high-profile celebrity, commercial flights. is there you talked about elon musk going ahead and getting humans on the starship's. justin: well, to date, the u.s. government has had a hand-on approach in the development of a of these. and it is really a case of you need to be informed of the risks and give consent after a full uprising of what co

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sir richard branson says space tourism will soon be a reality. >> it's like exactly as predicted. engineer has been incredibly positive. and so, yeah, it will not be very long before i get my flight in and before we have -- you know, we open it up to the many people that signed up to go to space with us. >> yeah. in fact, more than 600 people have signed up. they've paid up to a quarter million dollars each for a seat. >>> china's mars rover has set foot, if you can say that, on the red planet. current plans are for the rover to stay active for at least three months exploring and conducting tests. fresh tracks on the red planet mean new in roads for china in the latest space race. it went out for a drive making it the second to land on mars. it touched down on mars on may 15th. china's top space official said it's a huge leap forward for the program. china's rover will tread across the martian terrain to learn what it can in hopes humans can land there one day too. >> the chinese rover that has now landed on mars -- >> reporter: nasa's administrator, bill nelson sworn in earlier t

for reference, sir richard branson's business sold tickets to 600 passengers in the first day at a price,000 apiece. we'll see when we get details from blue origin, these trips could cost upwards of half a million dollars and in case you're wondering why we're getting this news today after years of anticipation from would-be space tourists, today is the 60th anniversary of alan shepard, the capsule is named after, becoming the first american to travel to space, guys. >> morgan, do you know who is buying these tickets that's a lot of money. >> high net worth individuals. what do you get with that? special pictures, video? i imagine bragging rights have got to be part of it >> absolutely bragging rights. the trip itself from launch to landing is going to be about an 11 11 minute trip three minutes of weightlessness in the midst of that it launches from west texas. the expectation is that would-be tourists are going to fly down there in advance, i want to say two days days in advance. in terms of all of the details around what will actually be offered and what a potential, i guess, bigger,

the richard branson-backed space tourism start-up stands at $26.69 after a rough couple of weeks. >>>worthy action, even though china's dallying wanda group stunned investor audiences on friday by completing exiting in its stake in amc, the red died all-star -- reddit all-star jumping 13.7%. well, you know what? now that the chinese are out, 8 a 5 percent of the company's -- 85% of the company's shares are held by individual investors, but perhaps it was the high octane debut for fast and furious 9 which, by the way, raked in 162 million, more than ring up hoping d -- revving up hopes for release on june 25th. in other movie industry news, amazon is now moving even closer to finally securing its second biggest acquisition in company history. $9 billion purchase of mgm studios. the studio behind the james bond franchise and so much more. if a deal is reached, it would be second only to amazon's $13.7 billion buy of whole foods back in 2017. amazon popping 1.5% right now. >>> the return of in-person entertainment bringing stocks, right, from live entertainment, talking livenation, disne

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so the effort to squeeze the non-leavers out of richard branson's space start up worked on monday but on tuesday not so much pulling back by 5.5%, morgan stanley cut its price target to $25 pushing out its first flight forecast to 2022. still, it's a big momentum stock , no way around that one. that scenes bringing people out of their homes and back to life, but how about getting your portfolio back to normal? our floor show traders have their top buy and celebration equations for america's grand reopening you've got to hear these, closing bell ringing in 46-point abby: minutes the dow down 72, s&p lower by 10. we are looking at the transports down 128 and the nasdac lower by 18, but will the bears really win this one? things can turnaround. stay tuned. (vo) while you may not be closing on a business deal while taking your mother and daughter on a once-in-a-lifetime adventure — your life is just as unique. your raymond james financial advisor gets to know you, your dreams, and the way you care for those you love. so you can live your life. that's life well planned. trelegy for copd. ♪

ellen must spacex is working to launch the first all civilian space flight in history in richard branson's 2022 to start flying private customers to space. nasa astronauts who arrived at the international space station last month for a six month stay. wait. leslie weighed in on space tourism. i think it's very exciting that more and more people are going to have access to space in the coming years. blue origin will announce the winner on june 12th in atlanta jail would feel fox news. a revival of usa networks nash bridges with don johnson is currently filming in san francisco. johnson will once again play the title character, a san francisco police investigating the show will first air as a two hour movie. the board of supervisors has approved using sfpd insignias on uniforms and vehicles for the show. we're also told that johnson's long time co star cheech marin, will return as johnson's wisecracking partner. seems have already been shot along the embarcadero at the fairmont hotel in the financial district and in pacific heights in new york city, live theater has been given a green light

listen to this , by $17 down to $23, stocks at 15.97 despite saying they remain bullish on richard branson'sy appeal with friends like that who needs enemies my gosh. back to earth now, restaurants desperately trying to get past the damage dished out by the pandemic now being served a new threat in their efforts to get back to business. a shortage of willing workers. to charlie gasparino, whose bellying up to the bar at his upper east side sustina, with the owner, hey, charlie. charlie: liz, i want you to know i paid the bill, okay? i know i've got a few e-mails out there people think i'm eating free spaghetti. liz: every time. charlie: i just want to give a little background on the bruno brothers. they are an american success story they came to this country with almost nothing they started as dishwashers, bus boys, they built three of the great italian restaurants in this city, and they served the wall street elite. this is an american success story that we almost lost last year, because of the pandemic and the very harsh lockdowns which a lot of people think were way out of control, way to

that's 1-800-217-3217 liz: 12 minutes before the close with virgin galactic, richard branson's rocket-maker may 22 date, as the next test flight for its space ship to vessel a series of setbacks in its test flight program cratered the confidence recently in investors minds but shares of the space tourism firm while down 36% since march 31, are scratching back about half of that. a little under half, space stands at $19.90 into the close, virgin galactic facing big competition from jeff bezos' rocket rival blue origin. an online ticket auction that it held on its maiden voyage slated for july 20 started really heat ing up this week. the highest offer right now for one of the six seats available on the new shepherd spacecraft, an out of this world $2.8 million. the auction is set to last until june 10 with a final live round set for june 12. that will not be me. not interested, don't have the money. ceo succession talks swirling around the top banks in the world this week, specifically jpmorgan and morgan stanley. jamie dimon and james gorman are teeing up their next in line but all is quiet

just down the street in branson one of the great theme parks in america, the silver dollar city theme park, told me a couple of weeks ago that they could hire 150 people the next day, that would still be their view, by the way, if they could find 150 people. they've got 150 jobs. they have more customers than they have people, and so not everybody can get in the park that would normally be able to come to the park. in columbia, right in the middle of our state, the owner of just jeff's said there's not a person that i come into contact with as a business owner or manager or something like that that isn't in a terrible pinch right now for help. that's just a snapshot of all we're seeing. i talked to one person who runs a family hotel chain. it's a big family hotel chain based in st. louis. he said we've got the customers now are coming back, but we don't have the help. we could fill more rooms than we're filling if we had people that could clean the rooms and get them ready the next day. businesses are ready to be back and be fully open, but they don't have the workers they need. we ha

this is richard branson's space tourism company. it has a boost.he test flight of the uss unity next week. not a bad gain, 23% up for virgin galactic holdings. l brands reported this morning, stock is up against other retailers are down. i bet they did really well. >> they made more money, pulled more lingerie at victoria's secret, sales jumping by a quarter, bath and body works played a huge jump in their sales as well, no guidance for the rest of this year. we know l brands is splitting up the company, splitting up victoria's secret and bath and body works adds more value on their own as separate entities combined in l brand itself. stuart: tell me about only. this is old milk but it is not milk. it is an old based product. the ipo $17 a share. it is not milk, is it? farmers are upset about this. >> you have to provide an alternative. there are people who are lactose intolerant and once nondairy because it is a hormone. the ipo is valuing $10 billion and that makes two brothers who founded the company over $400 million richer but you have to look

we're looking for temperatures to sort of be right around average in the midwest chicago about 66 bransonmissouri, 75. temperatures are running about 5 to 15 degrees above average. portland, 82 degrees sunday, still very hot out west. boise 85 degrees minneapolis 77 louisville about 73. dallas 77. a little bit below average further south you go into next week it will stay on the hotter side. in vegas, up to 93 on tuesday. memphis will stay into the 80s going into the week. philly gets in the 80s by wednesday. really warm weather heading in to the east coast i would say as we go through this weekend that's a loo >>> expect a cooler and breezy saturday ahead. right now, 53 degrees in san jose. and we're going to see a mix of sun and clouds into the afternoon. temperatures will be topping out in the upper 60s for the south bay. here's what we're looking at, as far as the afternoon goes. we've got a system that is dropping that's going to bring the possibility of seeing some thunderstorm activity to our north and our east, which could bring a chance of lightning and our temperatures are going

that one will be followed with a repeat, but we are asking our founder richard branson to come on andence for us. we think, who better to do that? both of those we expect to happen this summer, and that will be followed by our final test flight planned with the italian air force to showcase how our systems are used for microgravity science research. as well as professional astronaut training. we think that will likely happen late summer, early fall. >> let's get to that in terms of preflight training. how healthy do you have to be? kind of training does there have to be for a regular person to -- what kind of training does there have to be for a regular person to book a flight deco >> what's unique is we take the first 50,000 feet or so with the airplane technology, so we take off horizontally in our mothership and it climbs up to 45 thousand, 50,000 feet, and then from there the spaceship drops and rockets up, so it is powerful but reasonably smooth because we have gone through the heaviest part of the atmosphere just like you would in a commercial airliner. it is really important. i

we're awaiting the key details, including ticket price, bluts for reference sir richard branson's businessce between 200,000 and $250,000 apiece, reportedly blue origin could put a price tag half a million dollars when it unveils the sales game plan later today. in case you're wondering why today, the 60th anniversary of alan shepard the out >> that blue origins' capsule is named for, became the first american to travel to space. >> what do i get how much time do i get >> an 11-minute ride. >> 11 minutes. >> from west texas. >> got it. that's an expensive 11 minutes but an experience you will never actually be able to replicate. >> exactly so we will see what we get on pricing. we will see what we get in terms of a timeline for trips to happen in the meantime that will do it for "squawk on the street. "techcheck" starts right now ♪ >>> happy wednesday. welcome to "techcheck. i'm jon fortt with carl quintanilla, deirdre bosa and julia boorstin facebook's oversight board doesn't do what many expected and gives facebook homework. we'll try to explain what took them so long to come to the deci

. >> which is interesting since richard branson's own long awaited trip to the edge of space which is as a key milestone for virgin galactic. bezos has not marketed himself in the same way, at least not at this point meanwhile, speaking of virgin galactic, shares up 14 1/2%. the company announcing the next rocket powered test flight will happen saturday, may 22nd, pending weather and technical checks, galactic seeing a maintenance review on bmse, the mother ship that carries spaceship to unify for its air launch to the edge of space was completed. this will be the first of four tests that's needed to be successfully completed for commercial service at that company to actually begin, but after what's been just an ugly couple of months, carl, for virgin galactic shares to see the rally today speaks to how much hinges not on actual financials for the company since it's pre-revenue but these tests happening and happening smoothly and successfully >> yeah, no, we'll be rooting for them on saturday as they try to convince the market and customers, i guess, long-term, that they have not fall

going to do the next two space flights, first with a full crew in the back, and next with sir richard branson> so what are your planned dates or i guess general timing that you're anticipating, then, through the rest of this year, and i ask that because certainly investors are eagerly watching to see you get through those next three flights for a commercial service to start, and for ticket sales to open back up. >> so, we want to make sure we get through all the data, we get through all of the inspections as we always do, but like i said, everything right now looks really good, we usually do these on intervals if you look at the next two flights in the summer, and we're going to follow with the third italian air force, and demonstrate how we use our space force for micro gravity resource and will be completed late summer or early fall, and then following that, we will go through a period of kind of upgrades and enhancements that should let us turn the ships even faster, and we will then come back early in 2022 for commercial servicement i think we'll have a good turn around, the engineers, ma

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axiom space launching three civilians to the iss in january and richard branson's virgin galactic ising to start them next year. i got to tell you, it is not cheap. a seat on virgin galactic will cost about $250,000 bucks, over on spacex and axiom the seat also cost tens of millions of dollars and the money raised from that blue origin auction, that's actually going to go to a foundation for students, george. >> meantime, spacex just figured out how to land its rocket for the first time. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. talking about starship and i got to tell you there were four massive failures before this but now they finally landed it and nailed it. quite a sight. they hope to use it to take people to the moon, to mars and beyond, george. >> nowok, has vermu >> i know what to get you two for christmas. >> bless your heart. >> can't afford it, but thinking about it. >>> we are following a lot of other headlines including a stunning turn in the case of the colorado mom who vanished last mother's day. why her husband is waking up behind bars. >>> also coming up, why prices for new c

. >>> shares of richard branson's virgin galactic are blasting hard following a successful test flightd. morgan brennan spoke with the company's ceo earlier and joins us with some of the highlights. >> that's right. elegant and graceful, these are two of the words used by the ceo to describe virgin galactic's crude weekend flight of the vss unity to the edge of space he said the company completed every point it sought to on the 90-minute trip putting galactic on track for three more test flights to be hopefully completed by early fall with commercial service still poised to start in early 2022 so how much can perspective paying passengers expect to pay once those ticket sales open back up? >> we haven't released pricing on our own yet we plan to do that following these upcoming test flights. however, we are seeing in our microgravity markets about $600,000 a seat equivalent for the research side of the flights. >> the prerevenue space flight company sold its first 600 tickets for $200,000 to $250,000 but with blue origin now auctioning off a seat on its own first suborbital flight with

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