international space station and it is his fourth trip into space. >> but his first since his wof congresswoman gabrielle giffords survived being shot in the head, there to watch the launch in person, in and of itself is a big story. john zarrella is there live at kennedy space center as well. so if they're in the hatch but haven't like locked down their visors yet right? >> right. exactly. and you were mentioning gabrielle giffords, she's going to be right over at the launch control complex on the roof with the families of the other astronauts to watch the liftoff. that's a couple, 300 yards away from where we are right now. she and the others will have a terrific look at it. mark kelly just tweeted out a few minutes ago, we should be pulling off earth in a couple hours. hopefully there's one little glitch that's come up. right at near the hatch where they close the hatch, there's a little scrape on one of the thermal tiles, about an inch long scrape, they've had this