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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,...

They are the types of scenarios the school trains for in the simulator. >> i think what's most important is i can learn from mistakes that happen in the real world. >> reporter: is it a learning opportunity. >> looking at the positive side out of it and prevent it for the future. >> reporter: what is the weight of the job? >> you hold people's lives in your hands. if i do something wrong or if i give the wrong command and they crash and something happens, that's the weight that you have to carry. >> reporter: and they told us for these air traffic controllers when they are working in low visib...

100 feet of each other. they are the types of scenarios the school trains for in the simulator. >> i think what's most important is i can learn from any kind of mistakes that happen in the real world or our simulation. >> a learning opportunity is the biggest thing. >> what would you say the weight of the job is? >> you hold people's lives in your hands. if i do something wrong or if i give the wrong command and they crash and something happens, that's the weight that you have to carry. >> omar, thank you so much for that. so just today, the ntsb issued a preliminary report about an incident i...

To see the actual runway environment. >> fog and low visibility worthy where the conditions in austin, texas in february. a fedex plane was approaching the international airport to land as a southwest plane was supposed to have taken off from the same runway. with the weather, it would have been hard to visually confirm. >> maybe by now, that southwest should be off the ground, maybe i should be able to see on my radar. >> southwest aboard -- fedex is on the go. >> at the last minute, fedex pulled up and an action led by the pilots, the two planes came within just 100 feet of each other. they ...