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And it was up with the force of 18, 747 aircraft combined. Tens of thousands of people gathered on the Florida Space coast to watch. The biggest crowd since the last Space Shuttle flight. And then once this thing was 37 miles up, 60 kilometers up in the sky, two of the booster rockets, the two on the sides, they split off and they started a controlled flight back to earth and it went a few more miles up, up to 90 kilometers, 56 miles up and then the core booster, the center booster, broke off, t...

Coast to watch. The biggest crowd since the last Space Shuttle flight. And then once this thing was 37 miles up, 60 kilometers up in the sky, two of the boosters rockets, the two on the side, they split off and started a control flight back to earth. It went up to 90 kilometers, 56 miles up and then the core booster, the Center Booster broke off, too. Now, the core booster was supposed to come down on a drone barge in the ocean. As it was coming down, we lost the feed of that one and we couldnt ...

After one of the most volatile weeks of his presidency. And hollywoods big night, the oscars just hours away. A look at the politics of the awards ceremony and the role of the me too movement. We start at the white house with a new look inside the west wing during one of the rockiest weeks of the Trump Administration thus far. That look courtesy of the Washington Post, which describes the environment at 1600 pennsylvania avenue in the words of one of the president s friends, pure madness, report...

Opinion: Our editorial on latest developments in space travel.

THE INFINITE, the first multi-sensory, interactive virtual reality experience to transport visitors aboard the International Space Station, has touched down in Houston for a limited run. The 12,500-sq.-ft. exhibition is an extension of the recent Primetime Emmy Award-winning immersive series, Space Explorers: The ISS Experience, the largest production ever filmed in space, produced in association with TIME Studios.

In a nominal orbit. in a few minutes here well begin opening that -- excuse me, in a few minutes well separate from the second stage and shortly after that well begin opening that nose cone. at the same time, we landed our first stage on the drone ship, which is super exciting. >> thats the second stage action wasnt exciting enough. >> so theres that mbac engine like we mentioned before. it has already shut down. an event known as second engine cutoff and the crew are now -- >> cal, it sounds li...

>> so cal it sounds like the first booster land successfully my civilian crew look happy and healthy as they are about to separate from the second booster, and enter into actual space orbit. the folks at space x understandably work very hard, there are $10 million a rocket worth coming back. and they are just going to chill out there for three days in orbit? >> yes they are going to run some experiences but these are all designed to see if you and i can go to space. to see if people who do not h...

Rolled out the worlds largest airplane equipped with six engines, 28 wheels and a wingspan longer than a football peeled and wider than the international space station. sorry, you wont be able to catch a wide on this aircraft but it will be hurling rockets carrying satellites into space orbit. test flights are expected to begin in early 201. turning to our buried lead, stories we dont think are getting enough attention. according to the v.a. more than 600,000 veterans they have treated have be...

Take a trip around the moon next year. the ship will take off from nasas launch near cape canaveral. the unnamed amateur astronauts are likely paying a lot of money for this trip. they will go through fitness tests and begin training later this year. would you do it? >> what is the price tag? for no price, i would not go. >> it is interesting we have not been out of, you know, space orbit since the apollo mission. it is cool. >> i dont like more than a ten-hour plane ride. that is a comfortable ...

moment? >> well, i think it was pretty clear from the information we were getting in the days before this that they had fully fueled the rocket and that the launch pad was ready. i guess it was just a matter of finding the right weather conditions under which to launch this rocket. very clearly, they had the right launch conditions today. politically, they were able to elevate this young fellow to the highest position within the party the day before yesterday, so politically the stage ...