we can hardly hear anything. system is supersonic. if this were full of air, we d get a sonic boom on every single revolution. you can hear a little bit. can you hear it? just a little bit? a little bit of vibration too. arming system. here we go. so, he s doing the launch sequence now. ten. nine, here we go. ..seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. launching. whoa! that was it. applause yeah! decelerating system. in my mind, this has gone from nonsense to plausible in the space of a few hours. and in october last year, the first test launch in new mexico proved that the carbon fibre dart could not only launch, but also survive a landing in which it buried itself in the desert. i have been blown away
so, now you re going about as fast as a jet. the actual projectiles and the spinning arm are made of carbon fibre pretty much the only substance that can withstand the forces involved. 700 miles an hour. and in order to spin up to nearly 1,000 miles an hour today, this entire chamber needs to be a near vacuum, and that s why we can hardly hear anything. system is supersonic. if this were full of air, we d get a sonic boom on every single revolution. you can hear a little bit. can you hear it? just a little bit? a little bit of vibration too. arming system. here we go. so, he s doing the launch sequence now. ten. nine, here we go. ..seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. launching. whoa! that was it. applause yeah! decelerating system.
that have talked to nasa and the russians about doing exactly that. shooting a movie in space or at least parts of the movies in space. and none of those went anywhere but this makes access a little easier because now we ve got a commercial provider that can provide a craft that is autonomous and now they re not autonomously docking to the station or actually are but they always have a manual back-up with the professional ready to take control but this is a first demonstration that we can send people into space and the autonomous vehicle safely. so we keep throwing around the words autonomous and for those of us who have been not been in a spacecraft, it might not be immediately clear to us what that means these folks are doing and not doing. can you talk us through the things that would need to be automated in order for a civilian to get on board? pretty much everything. automated the launch sequence but it is an automated process. the flight trajectory is in the
space. none of those went anywhere, but this makes access a little easier because now we got a commercial provider that can provide a craft that is autonomous. never not autonomously docking to the station actually, they are, but they always have a manual backup with a professional ready to take control. but this is the first demonstration that we can send people into space in an autonomous vehicle safely. doctor, we keep throwing around the words autonomous. and for those of us who have not been in a spacecraft, it may not immediately be clear to us what that means that these folks are doing and not doing. can you talk us through the things that would need to be automated in order for a civilian to get on board? well, pretty much everything needs to be automated. the launch sequence can be controlled from the ground but it is automated. the trajectory is in the spacecraft. people from the ground can monitor that, but it will follow
negotiate on the president s terms when they will soon control the house in less than two weeks, ana. sarah westwood at the white house. thank you. let s bring in our lawmaker. matthew gates say member of the house freedom caucus, which pushed for the president to reject the continuing resolution earlier this week that would have kept the government open. gates also had lunch with the president yesterday at the white house. congressman, happy holidays to you. i appreciate you coming on. i have to take exception to what your white house correspondent just said. she said the president only loses leverage over time as democrats take control. let me offer an alternate theory. nancy pelosi obviously has a launch sequence she initiated by having elijah cummings send out 51 investigatory letters. if there s a shutdown, i think there will be an immigration debate at the forefront of the body politic to the extent she was not anticipating. we re prepared for this to be a long, partial shutd