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Congratulations everybody mission -- assembly complete. >> shepard: 12 years later, $100 billion later, astronauts have finally finished building the international space station. it is done. final step attaching a 60-foot extension boom that will help with future repairs on board that station. the orbits outpost weighs about 500 tons. the equivalent of a dozen fully loaded semi-trucks. and the interior is said to be roughly the size of that of a boeing 747. this was the last ever spacewalk that ...

And, a vehicle that we can one day use for exploration and hopefully, well move in that direction and were building a heavy-lift vehicle where contracting with some private companies for commercial capability, to access lower earth orbit and it is -- you know, we are still, still moving forward, unfortunately, were not going to have a u.s. crew vehicle for the immediate future but that will not be forever and we have had gaps like this before. bill: i know you have gabbys band on your wrist and ...

Two commercial jets nearly colliding moments after vice president joe biden arrived at the same airplane. one of them was coming nor a landing when it came in at 300 feet another jet taking off. a tornado rips through philadelphia destroying several buildings. surveillance video captures debris and trash cans swirling all over the place during the wild storm. witnesses say she just had seconds to get inside to safety. most of the debris came from a nearby auto shop that lost its roof in the twis...

Mark kelly blast off with the shuttle endeavour. docked at the international space station this morning. shuttle crew greeted him with smiles and hugs. the shuttles last scheduled mission bringing the most expensive pay load ever to that station. its a 2 wld device designed to help us all learn more about how the universe was formed. the vice presidents plane landed and then disaster was almost there. new report details how close two planes came to a violent collision. continuing coverage of the...

He was last seen february 26th leaving a nightclub. his friends and classmates are posting fliers are pictures on him and bices father has traveled all the way to madrid helping to find his son. aust austin bice, 22 years of age. nancy cooper, killed in 2008 and today the trial began for the only suspect in her death, her husband. theres bradley cooper on the right, and their two young children obviously with their faces blurred. bradley cooper insists his wife went jogging and never returned ho...

>> all right. time for some quick headlines on this wednesday. earlier this morning, astronauts got a rocking wake-up call. speed of sound by coldplay was todays song for the shuttle crew. later on today, steven bowen and alvin drew will venture back into space where they will install a camera on the exterior of the space station. meanwhile, parole hearing number 13 today for sirhan sirhan, the man who shot and killed bobby kennedy in 1968. his attorney is claiming sirhan has no memory of any of...

House at the time, was seriously injured. space shuttle "atlantis" has docked with the international space station. the shuttle crew is delivering replacement parts to the orbiting outpost. this is the last scheduled flight for "atlantis." nasa has just two shuttle missions remaining. kind of sad. the end of an era. were moving on to bigger and better things. actually, moving on to smaller and better things. more focused mission, smaller spacecraft. further into space. so who knows what the ...

Rio de janeiro is getting pounded with heavy rain for a second round today. it triggered killer mud slides that swept over homes and neighborhoods. the death toll stands at a hundred with many more feared dead. 1200 people have been left homeless and at least 10,000 more homes are still threatened. the space shuttle "discovery" successfully docked with the international space station this morning. the commander manually guided the shuttle into position at 3:44 a.m. eastern time. despite what n...

Thankfully everyone is okay. theres some differing views on what happened. an faa official tells us the plane blew a tire while landing and that is what sparked the fire. but a delta spokeswoman says no, no. the planes brakes overheated. either way, not a great situation. >> thats right. >> a helicopter on the way to the scene of a car wreck has a crash of its own. the florida highway patrol chopper went down on an i-95 ramp in south florida yesterday. the pilot is still in the hospital, being c...

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