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The European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft took this stunning sequence of images of its target planet Mercury during a gravity assist flyby designed to alter its speed.

Spacecraft operators. are you guys working today? >> im 61 years old now, so i still have to continue to work for a few more years. im not really ready to retire, so ill probably have to leave the area and look for employment somewhere else in the country. its been many years since i wrote a resume. so the resume world out there is totally different. so i have to go look at writing a new resume to the current standard. >> we are going to talk more about this in just a couple of minutes here. the...

The whole space shuttle is an amazing vehicle and we look at it as the eighth wonder of the world. >> the liftoff of aries. >> would i necessarily be on the next program? maybe not, but the fact that the work ive done on this program, you know, in my history, would make me a viable candidate for the next program. knowing now that we dont have a next program standing there to step into tomorrow, for me, its a little bit frustrating because the united states has been the leader in space for many y...

Of the world. >> ignition and liftoff of aries. >> would i necessarily be on the next program? maybe not. but the fact that, you know, the work ive done on this program, you know, in my history would make me a viable candidate for the next program. knowing now that we dont have a next program standing there to step into tomorrow, for me its a little bit frustrating because the united states has been the leader in space for many years. go ahead and walk out here. you dont realize that theres only...