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Engineers and christina cook, and theyre both flight engineers aboard the international space station. it is such an honor to speak with both of you. and before we get to talk about the apollo landing and the significance of that, just tell us about your mission. >> well, as you mentioned we are currently aboard the international space station which is an orbiting laboratory and every day we are partaking in hundreds of science experiments here onboard for the benefit of man kind to explore or u...

Flight engineers. there is a helmet cam and they are holding a tool working on the canada arm two replacing a latching hand on the robotic arm. had the government shutdown still been in effect this is what you would see right now. nothing but this exciting slate on nasa tv. it was broadcast while the stars were moving the government work was not. its back to operations and the static fire test with spacexs rocket will happen tomorrow afternoon at the earliest. >> bill: breaking developments this...

>> were flying through hurricane and going through the eye wall, it can be violent at times. but we have a really good plan. weve done this a lot. we have really good pilots, really good flight engineers and navigators and a good group of technicians and maintainers that take care of our airplane. so when were flying through we go through with a really good plan. weve done this a lot of times. and we kind of just hang on and let the turbulence take us where its going to take us. we have altitude...

Member leaves thats a good policy because you now have somebody. but the problem is is that if im intent on doing some harm and i have a flight attendant sitting there, i may be able to get up disable, or render them incapacitated and still accomplish the mission. it may be difficult but i think that you know that part of the security aspect is going to have to be looked at and scrutinized. >> what would you do? >> whats the option? >> what is the way to make us safe? >> i think the only way is ...

Skies with flight instrumentation more than most airplanes have with flight engineers monitoring your progress as well as a test pilot in the other pilot seat. but it really was not a violent event at all. there was some shaking, some vibration as to turbulence of the air flow over the wings began to occur as the air flow is being disrupted as the angle of the -- against the wings was too great and then you could feel it settling as you begin to lose lift and then you would quickly and responsib...

Talking people other than flight engineers, ground engineers, they would know how to do this sort of thing. pilots have a certain knowledge of it. as the hijack goes, i really cant say how sophisticated they are. we know that 9/11, the degree of sophistication, by hijackers have increased enormously. that the pilots have been trained to fly and crews basically use the aircraft as a missile, basically, as they have, in this case, you know, a trained pilot could have done this action as been sugge...

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republican candidates gather in the shadow of the white house tonight for the big cnn national security debate. it is the first test for newt gingrich as front-runner. cairo bracing for a million-man sit-in. police beating demonstrators on the fourth straight day of violence, and now late word three americans have been arrested. is there anybody out there? nasa relaunching a program to listen for alien life, searching for signs, on this "american morning." -- captions by vitac -- w...

Blocks of this floating laboratory but this year thanks to top scientists from 16 nations the final piece of the outpost is opening a new window to the galaxy, literally. this is the sun rising over the earth as seen from the eyes of 0 our astronauts. the final piece of the iss, a giant window to the world. and joining us now 240 miles above the earths surface expedition 22 commander jeff williams along with flight engineers onboard the international space station in the harmony module. guys, th...