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Cnns david mckenzie has our exclusive report. >> were head together far northwest of beijing to try and get access to a story weve been working on nor than a year. because weve been dealing ultimately with the peoples liberation army. going inside space city, where foreign journalists are almost never let in. its the heart of chinas most expensive and ambitious project yet. the manned space program. were meeting three of chinas best known astronauts. its their first ever interview with a foreign...

People are saying, well, maybe we shouldnt go over there. were advising people from our organization, you know, better to stay clear from the event, dont engage with these people. >> as for the police presence, we do know that police will be here. they have been looking around, sort of surveying the place. we saw them earlier today. they will be out here again. they will be monitoring the situation as it unfolds in the evening. sara sidner, cnn, phoenix, arizona. >> and we will of course cover t...

Ambitious program, home to the elite astronauts. >> it is very difficult to dock the two spacecraft together. >> and how many hours did you have to practice? >> we trained for the docking for two years. >> three years. >> cnn has obtained this exclusive footage of the their rigorous training. all of the chinese astronauts are all community party members and spend countless hours doing simulations. they can train in this room for a decade before they get a chance to go into space. part of a chine...

And save what you can and you just got more rains and winds coming. its like well do i want to do anything because its just going to get tore up again. makes it kind of hard. >> reporter: the national weather service tells us there is a slight chance that we could see some tornadoes in central oklahoma where we are today. these homeowners are obviously hoping thats not the case since they have already lost so much. >>have. we wish them all the best during this very difficult storm season. will, ...

Not learn from these failures. we have had them since 1959. we need to figure how to investigate properly and make sure we have the right leaders in place. another plus of working with multiple nations is we have redundance if we have a single failure other nations can pick up the slack and still continue to supply the space station. >> finally there is controversy over the space program. what do you see happening next? where will we go? what will we do? >> we need to in my opinion continue oper...

I always talk about, when we were growing up, we had the space program. we said theres a guy on the board. before the ship took off, the russians, you never knew if the ship came down, blew up in the air, poor monkey, or not even that. we were honest and we think of ourselves as the good guys. >> we think of ourselves, but its ten years later were talking about this. >> were talking about it and a lot of other countries never do. so what could will come of this hand-wringing, which i think is mo...

I always talk about, when we were growing up, we had the space program. we said theres a guy on the board. before the ship took off, the russians, you never knew if the ship came down, blew up in the air, poor monkey, or not even that. we were honest and we think of ourselves as the good guys. >> we think of ourselves, but its ten years later were talking about this. >> were talking about it and a lot of other countries never do. so what could will come of this hand-wrippinging, which i think is...

Earth. no single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind or more important for the long range exploration of space. >> we had him as president once, do you believe it? that was the speech in which john f. kennedy outlined his mission to land a man on the moon. the space program was americas pride and joy. five decades later, in 2010, amid growing skepticism and deep budget cuts at nasa, president obama doubled down on a new program called orien renewing on this countrys d...

Disheartening to see that, the fact that we dont have any astronauts traveling up to the stars at the moment, we have to hitch rides with russians these days. >> i think its important that people understand that their taxpayer dollars going into our space program is a huge investment. in the apoll days, the investment return was between 7 to $20 per dollar invested in the -- from the taxpayer. so americans are kind of impatient and want things right now but they have to understand that many, man...

Succinct way to say. is this the way 2 space program used to be? this isnt the way to best advance that. and im afraid were setting ourselves up to say were headed to mars when people find out thats 20 years and $500 billion if you go about it in this way. and i would hate for that to be the only symbol of nasz sa. >> did you say 20 years and how much money? >> the last estimates of human trips to mars are $500 billion. >> 500 billion dlar$500 billio,. >> correct. >>