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Done this situation next, one cnn are lastly, it's now, it starts with our out of this world lead china's space agency reports. it's a lunar lander successfully lifted off from the far side of the moon this morning it's bringing back the first ever samples from the side of the moon that we never see, not because it never, that we never see because it faces space, not earth the goal is to get those moon rocks training since forward to awaiting orbiter that we'll head back to earth and drop them off on june 25th in our worldly, take a look at what archaeologists just discovered in pompei a blue ...

-[ indistinct ] -main engine start. two...one... we got booster ignition and liftoff of the space shuttle atlantis. -sts-112 had a very similar piece of foam come off from almost the same location, but in that case, the foam hit solid rocket booster and put a dent in it. -the foam traveled -- traveled down. it struck right here, these three lines. -it didn't hit the orbiter, so it was no effect to the flight. the management team, they analyzed it and came up with the conclusion that no safety of flight issue existed. -we dodged a bullet on that one. here's your warning, and you only get one. â...

-okay, so this is the e-mail that was sent to the crew. "you guys are doing a fantastic job staying on timeline and accomplishing great science. there is one item that i would like to make you aware of. this item is not even worth mentioning, other than wanting to make sure that you are not surprised by it in a question from a reporter. during ascent, at approximately 80 seconds, some debris came loose and subsequently impacted the orbiter left wing. experts have reviewed the high-speed photography, and there is no concern for rcc or tile damage. we have seen this same phenomenon on several ot...

It's really hard to tell if anything bad had happened. i mean, this is insulating foam. it's lightweight. -so the orange, um, is the external tank which is covered in foam on the outside. -it's carrying cryogenically cold liquid oxygen and hydrogen, and it's going to sit out on the launch pad in the sunshine in florida. you don't want that to start boiling off, so over the outside of the tank there is this spray-on insulating foam. cheap, very effective. but it's got this property that, as you go through supersonic flight in the atmosphere, bits of it come. -the question is how bad of shape is...

She said, "i want you to turn this off because we don't need to bother those other people." -how did you feel when she said that? -i was mad because i don't like to be overruled. i'd been, you know, trying to act within my authority, and i'd been countermanded by my boss. -linda ham knew that nasa's history with the department of defense and using spy satellites was a little bit checkered. -there had been a previous mission where the landing parachute door came off on launch, so the orbiter was flying with the parachute without its door. nasa made a request to get some imagery. however, the ph...