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♪ you're live in the cnn newsroom. i'm jim acosta in atlanta. we're less than 40 minutes to the launch of axiom two. it's the second mission to the international space station. on board is a former space station commander who has spent more time in space than any other american along with a pilot and two mission specialists from saudi arabia. we'll bring you that launch live in about a half an hour. and negotiations will resume over the debt crisis. they will set the stakge for a high-stakes meeting tomorrow. the president is flying home from the g-7 summit in japan. here's wha...

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Leading that flight team. but as jason was talking about earlier, the landing on land is the big deal. >> so as we go to that split screen, when it goes back, the left is coming towards earth, the one on the right is going up into space. here it is the landing, it is amazing to he that they can take this rocket and land it so smoothly. look at that. [cheers and applause] that is absolutely phenomenal. [applause] >> landing confirmed. >> you can see the first stage has landed back at lz-1. this is the first time that we have performed a land landing on a crew mission. [applause] coming up next ...

>> nominal trajectory. >> beautiful view of planet earth coming to us from the second stage views on the right-hand side. left-hand side, our first view of the space coast once again. they're attempting a landing at lz-1. the booster is now traveling near the speed of sound. live view coming to you from one of your tracking cameras. we can see the grid fin helping to steer the stage down. >> stage two. >> standing by to -- >> stage one deploy. [ cheers and applause ] >> there you -- >> landing confirmed. >> you can see that first stage has landed back at lz-1.

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