Of space on the company s first ever passengerflight before gliding back to earth safely. I wanted to enjoy every minute of it and i did. Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. We start here in london where italy have won euro 2020 beating england on penalties. England started brightly scoring with their first attack, through luke shaw. They held that lead until deep into the second half although italy pressed hard for an equaliser and had most of the play, until. Marco veratti applied the final touch after a series of rebounds and deflections in the england penalty area. That took the game into extra time, at one goal apiece. The match was more even in those two fifteen minute periods but neither side could find a way to score taking the game to penalties. Italy were the first to miss then england and saka missed england s fifth penalty, the trophy was lost and won by italy. It is after 1am and in the centre of the celebrations easing off?
Plane back here on the earth s surface any moment. Joining us now to discuss from new mexico is cnn innovation and space correspondent rachel crane. Rachel, the astronauts have just touched down after the historic virgin galactic flight. Sum it up for us. Reporter: that s right, jake. I m just a few hundreds yards away from unity right now. Hopefully we ll see richard branson and hear his emotion and what this experience was like, after he took his historic space flight for him and his team. Everyone has been pegging this as the billionaire space race. Today richard branson they got to where they wanted to go. It was a sub orbital flight. Richard branson passed the 50mile mark and will receive his astronaut wings. That s a ceremony we ll see in a few moments, him and two additional mission specialists on board. They ll be receiving their astronaut wings today. Blue origin, their direct competitor in the suborbital space, they re set to make their first cruewed flight on july 20th. I wa
To all you kids down there, i was once a child with a dream looking up to the stars. Now i m an adult in a space ship with other wonderful adults looking down to our beautiful, beautiful earth. To the next generation of dreamers, if we can do this, just imagine what you can do. Very cool stuff. An hour after liftoff, unity reentered the atmosphere and landed safely. The quick roundtrip nearly two decades in the making. After hugging his family on the tarmac, branson said he hopes the impact of that 60minute flight is felt for years. We re here to make space more accessible to all and we want to turn the next generation of dreamers into the astronauts of today and tomorrow. We ve all asked on this stage have just had the most extraordinary experience. And we d love it if a number of you can have it, too. Cnn s rachel crane was at the launch and spoke to branson after his historic journey. Richard, you just fulfilled a lifelong dream. And i know you said earlier you couldn t find the wor
I m going to officially now wish you all a good day from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. We re a bit high noon here in the east. Welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. It s a special one. You saw it live on msnbc, one small step for man and a giant leap for a billionaire taking on space as the next frontier. Sir richard branson making history successfully launching himself into space on his space plane. Five, three, two, one. Release. Release. Amazing, right? it s incredible. It was historic. This launch this morning. The first fully crewed test flight to the edge of space. And that is a full burn. We are headed to space. And the passengers in the back have been cleared to unstrap. 279,000 feet and climbing. Branson s trip to the edge slightly edged out jeff basos. It s an experience of a lifetime. Now i look down and congratulations to everybody. And there we heard it. What he was thinking and as we re looking at video of that plane landing extraordinary. I want to ask so
Man, oh, man he makes it look so easy. Branson and his crew now back on of planet earth after a near picture perfect landing. He is expected to speak any moment now. We will of course bring you his remarks when he steps up to the microphones in new mexico. Virgin galactic plans to offer private flights to space beginning of next year. Jeff paul live at the site just miles from the launch pad and where they landed. Man, jeff, what an exciting, historic day this has been. What was it like? eric, you can probably hear a celebratory mood here in truth or consequences, new mexico, a very hot day but also a very exciting one. Years and years of work finally paying off for require ingalactic owner, richard branson, getting to that milestone, getting to space after working at it for so long. To of day started a little rocky with a 90 minute delay due to weather what happened overnight but that was really the only hiccup in the operation. Everything else went at planned. You see the plane takin