This week Spaceport America. Superfast weather satellites. And using vr to understand Cancer Treatment and recovery. 50 years after the first humans landed on the moon, a new space race is under way. But today, it is notjust nations that are competing to put ships and people into space. Private companies are getting in on it as well. In fact, they are leading the charge. Elon musks spacex already delivers cargo to the iss and is now one of several Companies Exploring the notion of Space Tourism putting non professional astronauts into space. It has already signed up billionaire Yusaku Maezawa to take a trip around the moon. Amazon boss and the worlds richest man, jeff bezos, is also planning to take passengers to the edge of space by the end of 2019 with his company blue origin, and has ambitions to land humans on the moon by 202a. But there is one company that is further along the Space Tourism journey than any other, and now Virgin Galactic has opened the doors to its new hq and give
Is live for us at s. F. O. With the test. Sergio . Reporter yeah, tough travel day. 250 flights delayed, about another 100 canceled today. We usually dont see numbers like this unless there is a pretty strong storm thats hitting the airport. And unfortunately were going to be likely seeing this the next three weeks or so as this construction project continues. On the runway tonight, you can see lots of flashing amber lights. Thats because there is a major repair operation going on right now. The base layer of a 1900foot stretch of runway 280 is being reinstalled. Because at s. F. O. s unique cross run ways configuration, only two of the airports four run ways are in use. The result is the leaderboard chockful of cancellations and delays. I think we had about half an hour delay, which was okay because weve got plenty of time for our next flight. Reporter esther is in good spirits as they head to their new zealand flight. Hes feeling run down. Hes been traveling from pakistan to seattle.
Business secretary Andrea Leadsom accuses the speaker, john bercow, of breaking parliamentary rules by allowing mps to take control of the commons agenda. Serena williams loses the us open final in straight sets to a teenager. In a gripping match, 19 year old Bianca Andreescu beat williams, whos now lost four majorfinals in a row. We have another largely dry day today with plenty of sunshine for england and wales. A bit more cloud for Northern Ireland and scotland later with a few showers, i will have all the details in about 15 minutes. Its sunday september the 8th. Our top story Prime Minister Boris Johnson has suffered a new blow to his authority after his work and pensions secretary, amber rudd, resigned last night. Ms rudd said she no longer believed the governments Main Objective was to leave the eu with a deal, and she described the sacking of 21 rebel tory mps as an act of political vandalism. Our political correspondent, jonathan blake, reports. Once tipped as a future pm, amb
Cold as the night we had last night. We have got this band of rain on monday so it hit of a soggy start of the new working week. Heavy in england and wales and rather chilly with temperatures of 111 to 16 degrees. Hello, this is bbc news with ben brown. The headlines after her resignation from the cabinet and the conservative whip in Parliament Amber rudd attacks borisjohnsons handling of brexit. Its the combination of the fact that there is not enough work going into actually getting a deal, which is not what the Prime Minister signed up to try to do, and secondly the expulsion of 21 of my colleagues, who are good, moderate conservatives. Shell be replaced as work and pensions secretary by the environment minister Therese Coffey business secretary, andrea leadsom, says the conservatives will break with precedent and field a candidate against the commons speaker, john bercow, at the next election. Peace talks between the taliban and the us are called off President Trump blames a deadly
Charged. Its a special day, an auspicious day. Were honored to have with us a panel of four important engineers, my personal heros when i was growing up. I was only 14 when you did the miracle back in 1969. I tried very hard to get here and follow in your footsteps as quickly as i could. We have a panel thats going to talk about lunar module landing operations today. If you want to know what that is, theyll tell you about it as we go around. The panel is jack knight, bob nance, harold loden, and bill reeves. Ill have them to identify themselves, say a little bit about what they did, and then open it up a little bit for questions. By the way, since i didnt introduce myself, im john charles, the scientist in residence here. Id like to turn the microphone over to mr. Knight to talk a little bit about what you did here for apollo 11 and what brought you here in the first place, and your recollections of that important day. Okay. I was the son of an air force family. We were in various base