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That something can go terribly wrong. theres never a way you can reduce the risk to zero. the astronauts are well aware of that. out of seven members, three of them are people i worked closely during the early days of the space station program. so theyre very aware when they strap in that theres no way to reduce the risk to zero and i think its, in fact, riskier than doing combat missions in an aircraft over afghanistan, for example. >> tom, i was shocked to see as weve seen how much stuff is be...

>> zero, we have lift off of the falcon 9. >> shepard: with that the private exploration takes off in america. the company space exploration technologies or space x as they call it test ago craft for nasa. its dragon capsule rode the falcon 9 rocket into earths orbit today. circled the world a couple of times and parachuted right into the ocean. space x the first commercial outfit to recovered a space craft that reentered orbit. until now only government companies. private companies to take supp...

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