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Orbit, they have to fire the engine on the far side of the moon where there's no radio control. >> the engine burn will slow them down from 5,700 to about 3,700 miles an hour. they'll have put themselves into lunar orbit. the first men in history to have done so and the trickiest and most dangerous part of their flight. >> you could have any one of a number of things go wrong. end up in the wrong orbit or hit the moon. >> we have to have absolute faith in everything that has ever been done to develop this rocket motor. all they can do is point it in the right direction, press a button and hope...

Information is being beamed down? >> commonly what's downloaded is engine parameters, engine burn, discrepancies. >> reporter: airlines monitor the realtime data. another way to communicate, radio. all right, good night. the final call from the pilots as the theft malaysian air space. a common phrase when changing controllers. >> we are in a dive here. >> in alaska airlines flight 261 when the plane dived out of control, pilots radioed what was happening. but no may day from flight 370. in the event of an emergency, is communication secondary? >> yeah, the first thing is to fly the airplane, n...

Two orbital maneuvering systems on discovery's tail are firing as well providing the shuttle an extra boost into orbit. engine burn will last 1 minute and 44 seconds. >> discovery, two engine. >> discovery copy. two engine. >> discovery can now reach spain should one of the main engines fail. all three engines are currently working well. 2 minutes, 59 seconds into the flight and discovery is now 79 miles away from kennedy space center in florida. 48 miles in altitude and traveling at 4500 miles per hour.