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Rockets. >> oh, now we see them coming down perfectly, perfectly. right, right. >> look at that. >> wow. >> there you see, there its getting ready to land. >> youre witnessing one of the greatest engineering accomplishments we have seen in decades. >> theyre landing vertically. theyre both down. both touched down smoothly eight minutes into the flight. >> that was pretty cool. while spice x has done this before, its never so with two rockets simultaneously. while the central booster was lost, th...

Space along with a space suit wearing mannequin named star man where it will be delivered into orbit around the sun for thousands of years. what mission control was most anxious for was the re-entry and landing of the two side booster rockets. >> oh, now we see them coming down perfectly, perfectly. right, right. >> look at that. >> wow. >> there you see, there its getting ready to land. >> youre witnessing one of the greatest engineering accomplishments we have seen in decades. >> theyre landin...

Was designed to be repaired by people in space suits. and thats what people remember. and it was repaired, and it was a great thing. because now the hubble images are everybodys. theyre not just for a single government or a single agency. theyre for everyone in the world. and thats a good accomplishment. >> it is. >> but you hit the nail on the head -- well, the last 30 years have really been engineering accomplishments. and im an engineer, hey, hey, sigh love engineering accomplishments but the...

lets listen in. >> all three are still in good shape as are all of the other sims aboard the orbiter. a team of flight controllers watches over all the systems. 4:20 into the flight. "endeavours" traveling 5500 miles per hour. altitude 63 miles traveling downrange, about 335 feet in altitude. environmental and control systems officer here reporting a good flash evaporator system reporting cooling to equipment aboard the vehicle. traveling into space on the forward flight deck is mark k...