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Space program well there's two aspects to it you have to remember the u.s. hasn't had the capacity of launching their own manned space missions the ai is as since two thousand and eleven since they grounded the space shuttle program so this test is the first step towards actually returning that capacity to the united states that's the first aspect the second is that nasa is attempting to cut costs and really commercialize space they're trying to bet on smaller companies like space x. or also like boeing and helping they want them to help them commercialize space so they can make space flight c...

Such a big deal, nasa's administrator and the first four astronauts that will fly the crew dragon came to kennedy to watch the future. >> i can't begin to explain how exciting it is for a test pilot to be on a first flight of a vehicle and, you know, we'll be ready when spacex and nasa's ready for us to fly it. >> reporter: and once the spacex crew capsule is up and running and boeing's starliner is doing the same, nasa can finally stop depending on russia to get our astronauts up to the space station. jon? jon: phil keating in cape canaveral, thank you. of and from the heavens and to depths w...

For billions of years unless it blows up on as sent. phil keating. it's a big day. >> humongous day, shep, for spacex and beyond spacex, for all human space travel in the future. if this rocket does successfully launch, heads off to space, deploys the tesla electric sports car, sending it out to the earth-mars orbit and all three rocket stages come back down to earth, two of them on the landing zone and the center score burning an additional minute and that would come down into the floating drone ship in the atlantic ocean. if spacex can accomplish all this, this opens the doors. number 1, put...

Orion crew capsule and away she goes. no actual people on the flight, emergency separation appeared to be a success and the parachutes deployed. the capsule was originally used to take astronauts back to the moon, now to the space station so we're not always hitching with the russian space pedicab. in hawaii, molten lava continues to cross he big island is repaving highway 130. it should be noted that shutting down one highway is nothing compared to shutting down air traffic for half the globe. hello, iceland. residents were worried about possible brush fires. authorities say there is no thr...

Orbiting overhead. by buying the services of space transportation, rather than the vehicles, themselves, we can continue to ensure rigorous safety standards are met, but we will also accelerate the pace of innovations as companies from young startups to established leaders, compete to design and build and launch new means of carrying people and materials out of our atmosphere. in addition, as part of this effort, we will build on the good work already done on the orion crew capsule. i directed charlie bolden to immediately begin developing a rescue vehicle using this technology so we are not f...