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>> so right now everybody is focused on the two astronauts onboard this spacecraft, the commander boots hello more, and the pilot, sunny williams. right now, you've got the blue team going in and they've got to get these astronauts off safely and they're essentially sitting on top of a bomb, right? a fully fueled rocket. this is highly flammable. it's dangerous work and so right now, everybody is focused on getting these astronauts off. it's something they trained to do. they did this dozens and dozens of times during space shuttle launches. >> but it's still risky. so that's the primary focus...

For the first twoplus minutes of the mission, with the Solid Rocket Boosters attached, theres no option for abort. You have to wait till theyre done and burned out and cut away. Thats a death zone. No matter what happens in that scenario, you cannot do anything. That was when the challenger went down. 11, 10. 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. [ cheers and applause ] the weird thing is that you see that flash and you see that smoke coming up and its like, well well, that sucks. Theres no sound. And then its. [ rumbling ]. Baboom. [ Crowd Cheering ]

We were cleared to cross runway 4. >> reporter: after it was cleared to taxi across the runway. >> clear at four. takeoff. >> reporter: a jetblue plane was about to take off according to the faa. but then also suddenly told to abort. >> stop. >> stop! >> reporter: a source says the planes came less than 1,000 feet of each other. >> something went amiss causing one controller to clear the airplane to take off and another ground controller clearing the southwest airlines to cross that same active runway. so, to me, it looks like it's what the faa calls an operational air involving a air operatio...

The Gujarat high court on Wednesday permitted a 12-year-old girl raped by her father to terminate her 27-week pregnancy and ordered the state governme

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