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the artemis program aims to land humans on the unexplored lunar south pole of the moon in the next few years and ultimately serve as a way to get to mars. nasa administrator bill nelson says were returning to the moon to live, work and survive. lets get right to the kennedy space center, cnns space and defense correspondent kristin fisher is there. kristen, how are we looking so far? >> reporter: it is too soon to say, john. nasa has already successfully troubleshooted two big issues t...

blastoff. nasa will try to launch the rocket again on friday for the six-week test flight if it can the fix that engine. if it is successful, artemis is poised to carry astronauts back to the moon nearly 50 years since astronauts last walked on the moon. new fallout from the fbi search of president trumps florida home. the director of national intelligence is launching an assessment of the potential risk to national security, including to human intelligence sources. a florida judge a...

And they knew that the certification process would not approve the technologies that they adopted. i think its fine to be an innovator. you know, the sub that you sat in, that we built and that i operated to the deepest place on the planet, was an experimental craft. i own it. it was not certified. it was an experimental craft, just like, you know, the mercury and gemini and apollo rockets were experimental craft. they werent certified, but they werent taking passengers either. you know, i think...

And to his faith and without those, he felt like he could not have gotten through on the other side with such a robust and i think contagious kind of optimism that kcarried him right to the end. neil: now, he was an active church goers he went and wanted to be, and you reached out to those, and gene cermak, who went to the moon if he could only see the crowded church on that backed day. but you embraced him, he, you. i found that to be a happy message there. >> it was, we had him speak at an ann...

Lightning strikes. so i live there for several years and we have lightning researchers at the universities there because of that. now, the hydrogen fuel leak is even more concerning but they sound like theyve been able to handle that as well. if you work in space, whether its an astronomy or launching things into space youre accustomed to this. inclement weather and technical difficulties are incredibly common and you just have to wait and see. >> i would joke having covered the shuttle launches...

You. >> okay. >> one of the things that we have actually seen with this mission that comes full to light is space exploration has to have many, many backups. right? so that means that if a system goes wrong, you have to have something so if the parachutes dont deploy, you still have boosters. its the mini backups that start to make you feel safe when youre embarking on such a -- whats really an extraordinarily dangerous kind of journey. what will happen is youll go back and the engineers, everyo...

From -- ruler from iran came out today. basically said that if israel takes the first strikes towards iran they will retaliate and wipe out two israeli cities. strong words today. >> shepard: brand new today in the syrian civil war two powerful u.s. senators just reached across the aisle and called for president obama to begin air strikes in syria. that as we try to figure out whether somebody inside syria has already used weapons of mass murder. >> the rebels say the government unleashed the ch...