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But the landing, you know, the deorbit burn, the high temperatures encountered as it comes through the earth's atmosphere, that is all high-stakes stuff too. it's just that we don't get to see it as well as we do the lift-off. >> that's correct because transmission is not easily transmitted when it is coming down because of the atmospheric effects that go on during the landing process, so -- but the astronauts as clayton will tell you they surely know what's going on. >> jon: so clayton, what are they doing? what's going through their minds, and, you know, how much of this are they actually co...

Vessel and doing some medical checks, make sure the crew is safe and healthy. and then they will hop on a helicopter and head back to florida. >> yeah, well, now that jared, hayley, sian and chris are safely back home on earth, and getting checked out by our medical team we're going to wrap up our live coverage of their historic return. we started this about two hours ago. successful trunk separation, completed deorbit burn. got through the periods of both communications. both sets of chutes deployed awesome and the crew splashed down. we hoisted them up and they have exited the vehicle. >> ne...

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Diameter to the six ton satellite that is spiraling out-of-control and headed toward earth as we speak. where this will land, still no one at nasa can tell us. >> the object is uncontrolled so behaving in ways that are random and it is frustrating not to predict with accuracy but it is known this is a problem. >> unlike 20 years ago when the satellite was launched in 1991, now they are built with an extra engineo they can be steered when they start the deorbit burn as they did with the shuttle missions, they can control where they land so it did not land like in new york city. >>shepard: last ...

shuttle. we are now less than one hour away from the final space shuttle landing. just in the last half-hour, we got a go for landing from nasa. the deorbit burn took place in the last couple of minutes. in the burn, the shuttle's engines are fired to help it slow down before it hits the atmosphere. in less than 30 minutes the shuttle and crew will start to feel the effects of the atmosphere. they'll be about 80 miles above the earth at that point. as the shuttle comes through the atmosphere, it heats up to about 5,000 degrees on the outside. when it breaks through the atmosphere, ma...