Pelley americas long pause from launching humans into space may change with a bold mission to send two private citizens, paying customers, around the moon and back. The announcement came from elon musk, the entrepreneur who created tesla electric cars and spacex, a rocket maker that already sends unmanned cargo capsules to the space station for nasa. Musk plans to launch late next year, about six years after the space shuttles last flight and nearly half a century after the last apollo astronauts left their foot prints in the lunar dust. Heres don dahler. Two, one, zero, liftoff. Lawsuit spacex will attempt to lawn two unnamed individual, said to be very serious about traveling ash the moon. Theyve already put down whats described as a serious deposit. Cbs news space expert bill harwood. Talk is cheap. Launching a mission like this safely is a tall order. Reporter the company has not released what the weeklong journey will cost, but it says it will take the amateur space travelers near
With scott pelley. Harwood. Talk is cheap. Launching a mission like this safely is a tall order. Reporter the company has not released what the weeklong journey will cost, but it says it will take the amateur space travelers near the moons surface and further out to space before looping back to earth, a distance of 200 to 300,000 miles. Theyll be aboard a fully automated spacecraft with no human pilot. Three years ago spacex founder elon musk told scott pelley for 60 minutes his friends were dubious. I had so many people try to talk me out of starting the company, it was crazy. Pelley what did they tell you . One good friend of mine collected a whole series of videos of rockets blowing up and made we watch those. He just didnt want me to lose all my money. Reporter in fact, spacex added to the collection of explosion videos with two spectacular failures, but recently the company has had a string of successful launches and landings. Still, musk is known for making bold predictions that
Barely a week into his administration. Under the cover of night on january 28th, s. E. A. L. Team 6 became pinned down outside the al qaeda compound. They were forced to call in a helicopter gunship to silence the fire. 14 al qaeda operatives and at least 15 civilians were killed in the firefight. Owens also was killed and a 72 million evac aircraft crash landed and had to be destroyed. The timing was linked to a broader offensive were pursuing in yemen. Reporter army general joseph patel, commander of u. S. Central command, told david martin was told preparation for the operation was thorough. The raid was monitored in realtime. Some people have called this success. Some people have called it a failure. What would you call it . Again, the object was to go in and collect intelligence. We accomplished that. From that perspective it was successful. I certainly understand how the family would look at this in a different light. Reporter now, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said the
Cbs news will bring you President Trumps first address the white house said today that the military is conducting three investigations of an antiterrorism raid one month ago in yemen. Navy s. E. A. L. Ryan owens was killed along with a dozen civilians. Other americans were wounded and a u. S. Aircraft was lost. Well, now, owens father is demanding answers and jan crawford is following that. His family was there, incredible family, loved him so much, so devastated. Reporter President Trump earlier this month described meeting the family of navy s. E. A. L. Ryan owens when his body was returned to the u. S. But owens father bill declined a meeting with his sons commanderinchief. In an interview with the miami herald, he said, i told them i didnt want to make a scene about it, but my conscience wouldnt let me talk to him. He asked, why at this time did there have to be this st mission when it wasnt even barely a week into his administration. Under the cover of night on january 28th, sooel
Being a natural born citizen. Cruz is pummeling trump with ads in South Carolina featuring a woman trump tried to force to sell her home. Vera cokings home was all she had left, but it stood in Donald Trumps way. Reporter what the ad doesnt mention the woman did not end up losing her home. Theres more than a little irony in donald accusing someone of being nasty. Reporter cruz and trumps other rivals are now criticizing the billionaires tendency to do this. I would bomb the [ bleep ] out of them. She got [ bleep ], she lost. Is anybody here worried about the frontrunning candidate shouting out obscenities in front of children . [ applause ] this is like what is going on . Reporter jeb bush sounding off today during a forum at South Carolinas most conservative christian university. See four president ial candidates here talking to these christian conservatives here at bob jones university. In the primary here in South Carolina, twothirds of the voters here are expected to be evangelical