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Going to essentially allow them to have a much cheaper way to put satellites into orbit. and they can use the technology to essentially build a bigger rocket. they call it the really big rocket -- what was it? the bfr. the big f'ing rocket. that's what he calls it. so that will take people on to the moon and on to mars. it will be building on this technology. and then you can see, maybe them using the space -- a private space company, spacex, to take humans to the moon or to mars. this is the first step and it's a critical and important step. only elon musk would come up with bfr. >> bfr, bfd....

4:00. and 3:45 right now is their scheduled go time. what's holding this up? we have beautiful weather here in florida, but they have heavy winds at altitude. and the wind shear at altitude could affect the trajectory of the rocket. so they want to make sure that the winds die down enough to give them that window to be able to fire off the falcon-heavy and head towards a solar orbit. it is an unmanned test mission, we should hasten to add. and my good friend, mark kelly, the astronaut, you know he's got a twin, scott kelly. mark e-mailed me and said we need to just ever so slightly change our ...

This thing actually goes off without a hitch? i talked to elon musk and i asked him exactly that. >> i hope it goes right. i give it maybe, i don't know, a half to two-thirds chance of working? >> reporter: that's it? >> yeah. actually, i feel like two-thirds, but i think realist realistically, half. >> reporter: yeah, realistically, half. 5 50/50, says elon musk, that this thing doesn't blow up there out there on the pad. now, he may just be talking down the expectations because he wants this thing to go and he's hoping that he looks good. but nonetheless, you're talking about 27 engines, thr...

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