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Treatment after shot in the head by taliban gunman. she was targeted because of her campaign for girls rights to attend school. a new frontier for space transportation a commercial cargo freighter lived off on the first test mission to the international space station. phil is live in miami with more. >> reporter: this is the future and the future is now for getting cargo up to the space station post space shuttle era. after today, space x is no longer the only american commercial space game in...

Navigation works. the ship is often called the beer can for its shape bringing supplies like clothing, food, spare parts and scientific experiments and watching it all in houston at the space center this morning a group of very scientific school kids from texas all of whom have experimented on board the cargo ship full player hoping everythg goes perfectly. >> it is a new vehicle, you have to expect something could go wrong and you have to be ready for all scenarios. >> that is space station res...

In the not too distant future the dragon will not splash down but touchdown on land george jet son -- jettison style. going up 40 stores and then landing gently on the ground. >> next month spacex getting competition. >> all part of nasas plan to go from the space shuttle program, now retired to private space companies hauling cargo, and eventually human beings. orbital sciences, a space company in virginia, with tax dollar seed money, launches a dummy capsule to the station in mid-april. if suc...

Low earth orbit. this time only cargo was on board. astronauts and private transportation are still several years away. space exploration technologies of hawthorne, california, or space ex-for short, launched the falcon 9 rocket from cape canaveral, florida, at 8:30 onboard a rocket. a capsule called dragon contains 1,000 pounds of food, clothing equipment, science experiments including 23 designed and built by students. the cargo includes a freezer that can store laboratory samples at temperatu...

keep the government from defaulting. early this afternoon bulletins went out via the "new york times" and the "wall street journal" that president obama and house speaker john boehner were close to an agreement on debt reduction on a deal there, but the white house is shooting those stories down. listen up. >> the breaking news report that you all probably received is incorrect. there is no deal. we are not close to a deal. the fact is that there is no progress to report, but we contin...

Advertisement, so to speak, to them about what nasa could offer, correct? >> true. instead of a nasa system flying ats we saw here on a future nasa rocket, this technology could be transferred to commercial providers, and im sure it will be. thats what nasa does is transfer technology to the commercial sector. and so these control motors, the guidance systems, the parachutes and all the elements that we saw tested here this morning should be paid close attention to by the commercial developers l...

Pad. spacex intended its third attempt for its revolutionary landing of the spent rocket upright on the floating landing pad saving the company hundreds of millions of dollars every launch. now attempts in january and april failed. for nasa and the space community in europe and the russians everybody staffing the space station, this is the third unmanned cargo mission failure in the past nine months. the orbital sciences rocket blew up and crashed seconds off the launch paud inpad in october. a ...

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Returned it safely to earth. only five nations in the world have ever done that before. and this is the precursor to companies like spacex taking cargo and eventually taking humans to the international space station into low earth orbit, doing that so that nasa can move on, taking the funds that would have been tied up doing that stuff, taking that money and eventually getting us out to the asteroids and onto mars. ali? >> so in other words, john, its the idea that were going to commercialize th...