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Machines. im about to get 90 minutes with a personal driving coach in some of the fastest street legal cars in the world. >> everything is kind of custom taylored so we have six different driving modules, kick plate, high drawically operated plate when you drive over it it kicks the car to the left or right. our next mod actuals are a dynamics pad. a giant asphalt lake and we have a couple different things we can accomplish there. we also have our launch control that we can play around there tha...

Failed again. they said the united states was suffering from a rot in the nuclear weapons handling force. 17 officers were taken off launch control duty. in june, the commander in charge of training was relieved of his post. thanks, sir, well take it from here. in august, it was another air force base that handles nuclear weapons. in montana. that was their third inspection failure in the past five years. then last week, the militarys number two guy in charge of nuclear weapons got fired after t...

Aannounced securing our -- commanders would be held to account. the obama administration would spend billions more on the weapons mission. bob gates said never again. this would never happen again. fast forward to this year. 2013. president obamas in his second term. breaking bad is over. alec baldwin is the newest msnbc host. more than five years have passed since the terrifying, world ending oops at minot air force base. and in march of this year, minot failed again. they said the united state...

Give me a go, -go for launch. booster. >> go. >> guidance. >> guidance go. >> surgeon. >> go flight. >> ecom? >> were go. >> gnc? >> were going. >> control? >> go flight. >> procedures. >> go. >> inko. >> go. >> fao? >> we are go. >> network. >> go. >> recovery. >> go. >> hepcom. >> were go, flight. >> launch control, this is houston. we are go for launch. >> seriously, if that does not give you goose bumps i dont know whats wrong with you. that was ed harris playing nasas famous flight director...

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We worked very, very well with them down at the tactical level, the day to day, the working level. theyre passionate about their space program. theyve been very safe. were friends with the cosmonauts. were friends with their engineers. the concern i have is what would happen at the very top level, the political level, things that are out of our control? we just dont know. as long as we can maintain good strategic relations with the russians we can continue this program. but down at the astronaut...

Meeting new people. >> the astronauts are also wearing wristbands in her honor. >> everyone i think has been touched by this and for mark kelly, the commander, this was going to be his last time commanding a shuttle into space. wasnt sure he was going to be able to do this. he was in the middle of training when this tragic shooting occurred in january, so it was very touch and go for some time. then p touch and go whether she would be able to attend the launch. even a couple of days before the l...

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...

Enough to watch her husband fly into space. president obama and the entire family at the launch site today despite the disappointment, our florida based correspondent is live at kennedy space center. first family arrived minutes ago, i understand? report very they have been campus for the past hour and we have watched the helicopters ferry around president obama, michelle and the two daughters. they toured the processing facility where they looked at atlantis prepared for the launch in june and ...