Texas State Legislature last week as she shepherded them around on Capitol Hill. I am both officials attended the reception with the Texas Democrats, only six of whom who have now tested positive for covid. Sandra the nations top Health Officials testifying before the senate committee today. There were some fireworks. Republican Kentucky Senator Rand Paul And Anthony fauci at one point going at it. Listen here. It is a crime to lie to congress. Do you wish to retract your statement of May 11th where you claimed that the nih never funded research in wuhan . Senator paul, i have never lied it your microphone. Senator paul, i have never lied before the congress, and i do not retract that statement. This paper that you are referring to was judged by qualified staff up and down the chain as not being of function. Let me finish. You take an animal virus, increase the transmissibility to humans. That is correct. Senator paul, you do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly. And i wa
And touchdown. Welcome back new shepards first human crew. Welcome to earth. Congratulations to All Of You. Youve watched all of it unfold live here. Billionaire Jeff Bezos and his crew, check it out, popping open the hatch of the rocket and popping some champagne, too, first unpiloted Suborbital Flight all civilian Crew Landing successfully on the 52nd anniversary of the lunar landing. Were gearing up to hear from the crew members during a News Conference and that includes 82yearold Wally Funk, involved in the Mercury Program who became the oldest person to go into space. Look at her popping out of the capsule there, about seven hours away from the Launch Site in south lake, texas. A wally watch party her family and friends cheering her on as she made this historic flight, tears, emotion, joy, all of it. We are here with you for the next couple of hours for a special coverage. I bring in nbcs morgan Chesky And Van horn in texas and all Astronaut Panel of experts with us, Mike Massimin
Themselves. Christine, just clarify something for me, does the u. S. Require all athletes to be vaccinated . Is It Potential that this person who has come down with it was vaccinated . Reporter john, the u. S. And the tokyo organizers do not require vaccinations. And i think thats really the root of the problem here. If everyone had been vaccinated, vaccines were required, you would be have a very different story going into the opening ceremonies, but theyre not. That means unvaccinated athletes can absolutely be here and they are here. Michael andrew, one of the stars of the u. S. Swim team told me a week ago or so that he was not vaccinated. Ive written about that. So, there are certainly theres one. We know one of the alternates, one of the Gymnastics Alternates said that she was not vaccinated. Again, we do not know if she is any way involved with this Breaking News. Yes, unvaccinated athletes from the u. S. And unvaccinated athletes from Around The World. Again, that contributes t
Space Rocket Science there that makes a lot of us optimistic about the possibility that more and more humans will get an opportunity to go to space. And that opens up all kinds of things that you could possibly not imagine right now. Yeah. It was interesting, miles, i spoke to Jeff Bezos just a couple of minutes ago when his brother and well have that tape shortly for you. But one of the things that we said is that it is better than he expected. He read a lot about what to expect, what it was going to be like. But it surpassed his expectations. He talk the a lot, too, about his vision for the future of Space Exploration and space colonization. I want to bring in mitchia kaku, a theoretical physicist. How likely is that vision of having a permanent settlement on moon or on mars, having the kind of Space Exploration, the kind of Human Presence in space that bezos and Elon Musk are talking about . Well the key factor that has not been mentioned yet, cost. The cost has been dropping like a
Jeff bezos is about to Lift Off to the edge of space and back. The flight comes on the anniversary of another historic mission. Its One Small Step for man. One giant leap for mankind. More than five decades after Neil Armstrong mesmerized man with his step into space, Space Tourism and beyond that, the privatization of space. This is a project 20 years in the making for bezos. The founder of blue Origin And Amazon will be the second billionaire to blast off from earth in his own spacecraft. Richard branson and his Virgin Galactic soared to the skies from New Mexico earlier this month. The youngest and oldest humans will be on the blue Shepherd Rocket along with Jeff Bezos and his Brother Mark. Wally funk was trained to be an astronaut in the 1960s. Part of the group known as of the mercury 13. They never made it to space because only men were sent at the time. Women proved they could pass the rigorous physical requirements that nasa had set up. Also aboard today, an 18yearold, recent h