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Arrival. assange fighting extradition to sweden on allegations of sex crimes there. the claims were made by two women back in august. he has denied any wrongdoing. these hearings are expected to last into tomorrow. new video from tehran iran where irans president has unveiled four new iranian made space satellites. president mahmoud ahmadinejad says theyre research satellites and reiterated his goal of sending an iranian astronaut into space by the year 2022. irans space program worries many wes...

>> announcer: from abc news world headquarters in new york this is "world news tonight," saturday. >> im peter jennings as abc news headquarters. in the words of a flight director at nasa, it has been a bad day. seven astronauts have died. their families shattered. the space program has been dealt a terrible blow. the larger family of men and women in space exploration devastated. and the country has been reminded how dangerous it is and that for all of americas technological genius, it doesnt a...

Help self. >> 25 years later we have schools named after her and challenger centers where kids are getting to do hands on science. these are wonderful things that wouldnt have happened if that tragedy didnt occur. >> reporter: kristas husband issued a statement yesterday saying that he really thanked everyone for continuing the outpouring of support a quarter of a century later. not just for krista, but, of course, for all the astronauts who perished on that flight and, of course, columbia and t...

Around here. >> understandably so. part of that, remembering the legacy especially of the people, the astronauts on "challenger," the seven, all loved and valued by their families and this country. i saw a piece, jay, on christie mcauliffe and how young kids who werent born then, still learning about her story through education, effort, educational efforts by nasa to keep her legacy and memory alive and incorporate young people to really value and treasure what nasa brings to our lives, as we de...

They rated finish quantum number one, beating the competition ! try finish quantum for amazing clean and shine. satisfaction guaranteed or your money back. 25 years ago right now the american space program was a gleaming example of precision. a few hours later that would forever change. >> because on this morning back in 1986 the shuttle "challenger" lifted off and never came home.

Program. and i actually ended up canceling -- i was getting ready to fly. it was a big impact on myself. and it did change the space program. nasa had to learn a very tough lesson and had to do a lot of introspective look at what they were doing and came out stronger as a result and the shuttle program carried on. megyn: theres with a problem with the o-rings, defective o-rings, which are rubbery seals in the rocket boosters that flank the spacecraft. they were defective and allowed hot gases an...

Any around the moon and back by a soviet soyuz, we certainly gained momentum. now we didnt actually follow the apollo program with a very enlightened program of catching up to where we had leaped ahead. and ive got a lot to say about mistakes that were made in designing a two-stage, fully reusable after apollo. we became a jobs program at nasa. how can you find enough jobs to spread around to enough politicians so that we can get votes for the space program. short term versus long term gains. jo...

To worry about. also, he talked about a spending freeze. thats been around there for a while. the infrastructure bank, that is something thats been widely panned and he suggested thatt r earlier. even when he talked about the sputnik moment, thats a speech he gave back in november. >> when you say sputnik, it doesnt get my imagination flying. >> i think its ironic hes talking about our sputnik moment, you know, that started the space race where we wanted to beat the russians and yet, this presid...

Station is really a symbol of that. its an international effort and its really an incredible facility we have built here as a team and i think our space program has a bright future as a result. >> by the way, i now follow commander kelly on twitter. he does this thing called space geo. he takes a picture of some place on earth and you have to guess the location of where it is. its a very cute game, a great way to sort of learn geography in a whole new way. so follow him. its kind of complicated....

Shuttle "challenger" disaster. im just curious if you could share sort of your thoughts, maybe where you were 25 years ago on january 28, 1986, and your thoughts on how the space program responded at the time and where it is today. >> of course was another incredible tragedy our country. but you know, i think as americans we are very resilient and were good at coming back from things like that. i think in the space shuttle program, we did come back from challenger and then later, you know, when ...