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Seen in space flight. spend a long time off the planet and your bones thin. this puts astronauts at a greater risk. nasa says knowing this is crucial if ever going to mars or deep space. how will we know if being in space is cause of kellys body changes? nasa has the perfect specimen to compare him to. his twin brother, retired as astronaut mark kelly. he has scroll tiered for the study. he will be getting poked and prodded by researchers here while scott makes history in orbit. kelly wont be al...

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20,000 miles an hour to a gentle return back to earth, orion is back on earth. america as driven a golden spike. >> the final frontier. the orion capsule returned four and a half hours after it took off from cape canaveral. >> liftoff at dawn. the dawn of orion and new era. >> the capsule orbited around the earth twice before letting to deep space. the furthest distance in 42 years. it sent back the first live video of the entire globe since the year 1972. the goal is to take astronauts to near ...

Yesterday but the u.s. space agency says rain and clouds today have dropped the probability of a takeoff to 40%. thursdays scheduled test launch of the unmanned craft was scrubbed when liquid oxygen fuel fell to open during the countdown. this flight is expected to last roughly 4 1/2 hours. future missions will explore deep space. nasa hopes to eventually send one of these guys with astronauts on board all the way to mars. coming up next here on cnn, do you like country music? a cowboy singer ...

Other things to do just that to learn how this vehicle behaves in the environment in deep space. >> reporter: the test flight today is expected to last about four and a half hours while the impact is expected to stretch deep into the future of american space travel. and we are just under two hours away from that scheduled launch here. theres a two hour plus lunch window so things just arent perfect they can wait. nasa spend more than eight years and $9 billion developing orion. theres one more u...

Explanation. the cost, $370 million. >> can you do the high tech one? >> no, couldnt do that either. and this is a japanese space probe blasting off on a mission to chase down an asteroid. it will land on the asteroid in deep space four years from now if all goes to plan. the probe could look for clues about the origin of life. investigators say richard the iii may never have been the rightful monarch. >> and they say they have the dna to prove it. this raises questions about the current que...

Gene cernen commanded that mission. he was the last astronaut on the moon. so everybody thought, well well be back going into deep space before that. but its been four decades. theyre trying to get back in. they got the approval of the program. theyre building a huge issue rocket that will be ready to go in 2013. eventually the largest rocket they ever built. even bigger than the saturn 5 that went to the moon. but they need this to go in increments to deep space. to go back to the moon beyond t...

We have two roving around on mars and a spacecraft bound for pluto. no other nation has been as successful with exploration as we have. and the time now is to put humans into deep space. we have visit the soviet moon in 2020. we should be going to a nearby asteroid to touch another alien world for the first time. >> when we go up to space, we have to piggy-back on russia paying them $70 million per astronaut because the space shuttle program ended in 2011. is there now a time to get back into do...

This is more advanced than the space shuttles, right? so what will it involve? >> for one thing, take us a lot farther than weve been really since 1972 in space. as a matter of fact, this unmanned mission at the end of the year will travel to an orbital altitude of more than 3,000 miles, just by comparison, the international space station orbits 250 miles, where the shuttle spent most of its time. so, this is developing into space in a much deeper way and this mission in 2017 that is contemplate...

>> no, mr. bond, i expect you to die. >> of course, oo 7 escaped from that predicament but nasa is using a different laser to fundamentally change the way we communicate with deep space. the space agency is planning to use laser technology to stream more information at higher speeds, including live hd video of future space missions. its a system they call opals. they successfully tested it for first time last night. [ applause ] >> boom! hd video. can you say the real housewives of international...