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Christa mcauliffe flight have school kids been playing such close attention to a space flight has they are this one. >> absolutely. and think about haley there on the flight, physician's assistant, but also overcame childhood cancer. she is not only the youngest american to go into space, but the first with a prosthesis, so you have children and individual of all different abilities who now say this might be something within my reach. >> jon: we don't have an aircraft carrier out there as we used to when i was a child, and he would watch -- i would watch the spacecrafts land, but the boats are...

And that's the heart beat of the u.s. economy, so we've got to keep doing this. >> jon: the chicago museum of science has an actual lunar lander on display. it was intended for one of the apollo missions. i think it was apollo 20 that ultimately never flew, but it is there. i was privileged to climb into it with jim lovell, the astronaut who flew many times, but is probably best known for the apollo 13 mission that never made it to land on the moon and yet was an incredible success in the face of all kinds of adversity. at any rate, showed me that flight computer that lunar lander employed bac...

0 these are people with families, and the goal here really has been heartwarming. i think you've probably seen the footage of the interactions that this crew has had with children in the hospital. i mean, it's been a fund-raising campaign for st. jude's, 200 million dollars has been the goal. and there's been all kinds of interaction from them there. it just has been an amazing experience to see regular americans, like you and i, in space. only less than 600 people -- >> jon: hang on a second, alexandria. we're getting our first images. let's listen to mission control. >> as part of the inspir...

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Let's bring in friend of the programme and retired nasa astronaut, leroy chiao. whenever icd stories, i always think back to the movie apollo 13. what if it goes wrong for these four non—astronauts up there above the earth. non-astronauts up there above the earth. . r' . , non-astronauts up there above the earth. , ., , earth. there is risk in any space fliuht, earth. there is risk in any space flight, lunching on _ earth. there is risk in any space flight, lunching on top - earth. there is risk in any space flight, lunching on top of - earth. there is risk in any space flight, lunching on t...