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Here we go. i joined john for his and my first flight. 0h! oh, help! i want to come down. 0h! it's like the ground. it's moving away from you. it's really hard to actually control where you're going. as you can see, it's hard to master. this is the closest that we can get to experience of what being an astronaut is like. john, how are you finding it? look at this! i mean, where do you get this? how did this happen? 0h! the flight is a chance to see howjohn's prosthesis response to weightlessness. in normal gravity, if you look here, the knee bends under normal gravity. but when you go into zer...

John, how are you finding it? look at this! i mean, where do you get this? how did this happen? 0h! the flight is a chance to see howjohn�*s prosthesis responds to weightlessness. in normal gravity, if you look here, the knee bends under normal gravity. but when you go into zero g, you'll probably see, i'm floating around with the leg straight because that gravity isn't there. each parabola is a learning opportunity. it is! and this is what the project is all about. working out what needs to be adapted for a person with a disability to live and work in space. john's not guaranteed a mission,...

About what that was like. >> well, you know, i grew up, like you said, after the second world war, and my parents were fantastic, but it was the environment then. they were very strict, and my father wasn't cold. he was very affectionate and very warm, but when he was drunk, then he was a different person. he changed personality. not a really good atmosphere. but in another way of it was that he was very disciplined and he made us do push-ups in the morning, as he always said, we have to earn breakfast, and we had to do knee bends, 200 knee bends and push-ups and all those kind of things. we h...

Other people pictures online and shaming passengers next to them and tweeting them when the people are unsuspecting. >> she was actually escorted off the plane. as far as we know she wasn't charged. to me, that's assault with a pen. >> i don't know, i'm kind of sympathetic to both sides here. this by the way is called passenger shaming. i have been passenger shamed as someone who sleeps in public a lot. >> on our show. >> that's true. i fell asleep on once and someone posted them online. quiet embarrassing. i never did it again. this guy will not fall asleep on airplane again. there some use i...

good morning, we're happy you're with us this morning. welcome to "early start", i'm zoraida sambolin. >> we're bringing you the news a to z, get it? big story in d.c., roger clemens to be judged by a different group of people, baseball writers, the men and women who choose the hall of famers after he was acquitted on all of the charges in his perjury trial yesterday. the rocket denying all along he ever used performance enhancing drugs. yesterday his attorney insisted again that his legendary pitching career is not tainted. >> i hope those in the public that made up their mind befor...