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Times to the moon to other planets maybe. you mentioned, warp drive earlier. maybe to other stars a lot faster. bill: do you guys sit around think about this a lot? >> oh, you know, im a huge "star trek" fan. so i love warp drive. got a lost "star wars" fans here in the office who love hyperdrive. we would love to see it become a possibility. because i think everyone would like to see what traveling faster than light. bill: as we say still to come in our business. em drive. tariq malik. thank yo...

The, hit the off switch pledge, going into digital lockdown, until sundown tomorrow. if you do it, tell your friends and loved ones that they might get worried if you dont respond to them. that is the world we live in. if they dont respond back in 15 minutes they get worried. bill: historic arrival this morning, 310 million miles from earth. the dawn spacecraft, orbiting the dwarf plan net sires. we have the manager of space.com. it is sending back, dawn the signal takes about an hour. we know t...

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>> im still a doubter. put me in that column. are you venus man or mars man? >> i like venus a lot. i think its a strange planet. it is overlooked a lot. there is a spacecraft that europe just kind of died, that is the last one we had. bill: i thought it was fascinating. we send probes up there and last a couple hours on the surface. they are just destroyed. >> they get destroyed by just the intense pressure on the surface. bill: see you on venus. tariq malik. space.com. molly, what is next? mol...

Underscores the need to reestablish americas human spaceflight capability as soon as possible. joining me now is managing editor of space.com. so were in a bit of a quandary here. we have astronauts up in space literally with no way to get home unless russia helps us. >> thats exactly where we are. for three years now we havent had any american vehicles capable of flying astronauts or our partners. nasa gives rides to them, too. were responsible buying seats with russia until we can get a spaces...

Were calling this around the sun. comet expected to swing around the sun, if it doesnt break apart. >> right. nasa captured images of the comet wednesday. ison is pastorth as you see in the time lapse. if it survives the close encounter next hour it could put on a spectacular light show and we might catch a glimpse. >> depends what part of the world. there it is. i was waiting for it to come into frame. were covering it up at the bottom the screen. there, see, told you. director disagreeing with...

They had a phenomenal amount of lead time, which built up the expectations and the fear -- >> the disappointment. >> yeah. >> the disappointment. tariq malik, thank you so much as always for joining us from space.com. and chad myers, oh, well. >> it could still come out the other side. you know, remember -- >> i appreciate his optimism. >> remember the first "apollo" when they lost contact. are you there, are you there? >> yeah, were there. >> we just havent found it, but so far, i dont see it. ...

Built. they will have to land something bigger than that and they need to know what the atmosphere is like before they put people under a larger parachute. >> well catch up with may havin in ten months. and another one later this year. thank you, ta rik from space.com. >> thanks. i am going to work hard as i can around the priorities that the american people care about. it is legitimate for them to expect me to win back credibility on the health care law in particular and a whole range of issu...

Fastest ever for the space station crew. so how serious was this problem? managing editor of space.com and joins us to talk more about it. how dangerous was this mission for these astronauts? >> it wasnt dangerous to the crew. it wasnt going to put their lives at risk or anything. but the space station needs power and has a huge solar array and generates heat. it has to stay cool. this problem, basically knocked out one of those power channels. that would have been a problem for the station. nas...

Martha: were learning about a brand new cool discovery that could unlock some of the secrets of that outer outer space area we dont know so much about. scientists think they may have identified a new particle that may be the building block of dark matter. dark matter is that mysterious deep, dark substance out there believed to make up 25% of the universe. a lot of it, okay? so this discovery was made with a $2 billion particle physics detector. bet you have one of those at home. it was mounted ...