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>> i read those reports. i don't think there is any capacity to do that. what i will tell you is part of china's comprehensive national power strategy, they want to demonstrate all kinds of technological prowess. they are doing experiments in microgravity. they have been on the moon with robots and they have a robot on mars as well. it's true that they are progressing very quickly. it's also true, and i think everybody in america needs to be aware of this that the united states of america has pretty stunning achievements of its own. we landed on the moon in 1969 and we did it six times between...

Environment when you're trying to conduct research up in microgravity and in a weightless environment. listen to this. >> it was rigorous and challenging. you know, we had a very aggressive schedule of research, we essentially completed all the experiments, but i can tell you was it not for the nasa crew 3 and their phenomenal help, we would never, underscore the word never, have been able to have accomplished all those objectives. >> so it really goes to show you just how well trained and why it takes so long to be a professional nasa astronaut. and one more thing, brianna, i asked larry, you...

Experiments and microgravity, weightlessness up at the international space station. but this is also a training mission of sorts for this entire crew, because they are all in the running to be assigned to nasa's next big thing. the next big program called artemis, which is when nasa is going to attempt to return american astronauts to the moon for the first time in so many decades, and so, what nasa has said is that when dthey do that they want to do that, not just white men but the first woman and person of color to land on the moon too. that's why there's also been so much attention on jessi...

Three of the four astronauts paid for this excursion they got a bonus, five extra days in space. the historic mission this really was, four private citizen astronauts heading up to the i.s.s. to work. heavy winds and too big waves off the coast of florida kept delaying this departure and splashdown to earth. but it's looking good today, three four waves for the recovery. the dragon capsule left the space station at 8:30 eastern and now on the way to the atlantic ocean for a 1:06 p.m. eastern time splash down off the coast of jacksonville. the mission was not a space tour as a mission as they m...

Former astronaut Chris Hadfield is an advisor to biotech company BioHarvest, and both see a future in cannabis growth in space.