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Abby: i'm with the president of the intrepid museum and colonel hartman with us as well and a bunch of navy and army behind us. we will start with you though, susan, where we are standing right now, we are on the top deck of the intrepid. used to be active aircraft carrier. >> served in world war ii in the colds war. three tours in vietnam and recovery vessel for two gemini and mercury mission in the space program. abby: people come from all over the world here to see this intrepid museum. what are they going to learn? >> the only museum that has a nuclear launching submarine public and the en...

And we'll continue to follow them. there will be more shuttle flights and more shuttle crews, and yes, more volunteers, more civilians, more teachers in space. nothing ends here. our hopes and our journeys continue. >> to honor our fallen, we have to find this and fix it and fly it again. >> it was in a matter of days, we knew it was a solid rocket booster joint that had failed. the o-ring was a flawed design that had led to the loss of the "challenger." >> during the 30 months since the "challenger" accident, there have been hundreds of hardware changes not only to the rocket booster but also...

Astronauts joe angle and dick truly flew "columbia" into space again. >> space shuttle was like a large truck that could deploy satellites, and it had a robotic arm so that you can repair and upgrade spacecraft. >> and liftoff of the orbiter "challenger" and the sixth flight of the space shuttle. >> this was the birth of space travel, not just space missions. we're talking about setting a laboratory. almost like a university in space. it started feeling like anybody could be an astronaut. >> the countdown is under way tonight at cape canaveral toward sunday's scheduled launch of the shuttle "c...

Dinner seating, is proof what the south korean is doing with the president's max pressure strategy. south korean has been taken away from the american orbiter that south koreans have no interest in escalation. it's reconciliation now. >> chris: they really think they've split them? >> they wanted to >> that's 100% yes. >> chris: that's not optimistic. your winner and loser of the week. >> winner, lucas warman through the 2018 gerber award baby award winner. beautiful choice. a young boy with down syndrome. i think all of america agreed with that choice. beautiful kid. >> chris: your loser? >> ...

Booster joint that failed. the o-ring was a failed design that led to the loss of the challenger. >> during the 30 months since the accident, there have been hundreds of hardware changes to not only the booster but to the orbiter and the large liquid rocket fuel tank. numerous software changes have been implemented. all had been tested exhaustively.