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The proper planning to have a vehicle in place to replace shuttle when it lands its last landing. >> reporter: that last landing will probably be sometime in july. they will be using the orbiter "atlantis" for the last flight. i know you want one of these and i do, toop. robo knot 2 is flying up and at the international space station. he will be the seventh crew member up there and do all kinds of menial things like change the light bulbs and stuff like that. right now he has just half a body, t...

>> one minute and counting the sequencer will verify the three main engines are ready to start. is the booster joint heaters are being deactivated at this time. t-minus 48 seconds. were transferring to orbiter internal power. "discovery" is running now on its three on-board fuel cells. t-minus 31 seconds. >> autosequence start. >> we have a go for autosequence start, "discoverys" on-board computers have primary control of the vehicles primary functions. 20 seconds. the sound suppression water sy...

And the pilot eric bo as well as the four others, the mission specialists they are now all strapped in looking forward, which in their position as you can see is looking straight up so right now three minutes, 40 seconds remaining before this launch "discovery" took up john glenn the then senator and then a senior citizen advancing understanding of what the human body takes at that age "discovery" was the orbiter for that "discovery" was the orbiter that took up the hubble space tell coast in 19...

>>shepard: through you go and now we know he will command and how he came to that decision. how long will he be away from his wife, chris? >>reporter: i am guessing a minimum of about three weeks because the mission is two weeks long, and before they actually launch the six-member crew is put under quarantine for a week best launch so no one gets sick so the last four days of that quarantine are spent in florida so there is all the possibility of a weather launch or they could extend the mission...

>> "columbia," houston, we see your tire pressure messages and we did not copy your last. >> roger that. >> reporter: there was nothing more. people on the ground saw the streak of the shuttle breaking up. >> and suddenly things started raining down out of the sky. and sounded like a boomerang whizzing through the air. >> reporter: at 9:16 a.m. the scheduled landing time came and went. at 9:29 a.m. nasa officially declared an emergency and impounded all data for the investigations that will foll...

The government wanted. they earned the money and didnt pay taxes. thats why this is potentially a huge story. thats probably what you have here. >> maybe. you dont know. you are in this business. it is people that either want to shield wealth from taxes or people that want to shield wealth because they attained it illegally. >> isnt the whole system rotten? why do you have the cayman islands? >> because you dont have a flat tax. >> if you are going to have -- the suntan oil capital not the offsh...

The government wanted. they earned the money and didnt pay taxes. thats why this is potentially a huge story. thats probably what you have here. >> maybe. you dont know. you are in this business. it is people that either want to shield wealth from taxes or people that want to shield wealth because they attained it illegally. >> isnt the whole system rotten? why do you have the cayman islands? >> because you dont have a flat tax. >> if you are going to have -- the suntan oil capital not the offsh...

The government wanted. they earned the money and didnt pay taxes. thats why this is potentially a huge story. thats probably what you have here. >> maybe. you dont know. you are in this business. it is people that either want to shield wealth from taxes or people that want to shield wealth because they attained it illegally. >> isnt the whole system rotten? why do you have the cayman islands? >> because you dont have a flat tax. >> if you are going to have -- the suntan oil capital not the offsh...

Fredricka whitfield is monitoring the other top stories coming in right now to "the situation room." fred, what are you working on? >> hello, everyone. well, the european space agency says conditions favorable to light may have once existed all over mars. the agency says its mars express and reconnaissance orbiter have discovered minerals in the northern lowlands that indicate water once flowed there. until now evidence of the presence of liquid water had been found only in the southern hemisphe...