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Cyan of those brothers. it made republican scott brown's win even more earth shattering. >> a development that may affect this nation's foreign policy, health care policy, perhaps the remainder of the obama presidency. chuck, hard to believe it happens on the one year anniversary. >> in washington today for the president she stood for a symbol of voter anger. >> scott brown winning ted kennedy's liberal massachusetts senate seat was seen as a refr dumb on president obama's agenda. now it's ten years later. partisanship has become more predictive in american politics, right? especially as ameri...

Sir richard branson. they went to the very lowest part of what is considered space where they were briefly weightless for a few minutes and then they returned which, you know, that's cool. this is not that though. this is actually a genuine honest to god actual space mission. spacex rocket is going to launch four amateur astronauts although one does include a billionaire. don't you worry, we're getting another billionaire into space. they're going to go into orbit 360 miles above earth. the crew is composed entirely of civilians. there is a billionaire who funded the trip, a physician's assist...

Ignition. >> in our out of the this world lead we just got word from spacex that the first all tourist no astronaut crew orbiting earth is doing well why they're quote healthy, happy and resting comfortably. they rocketed around earth five and a half time just that lucky crew of four is a physician's assistant, a billionaire a community college teacher and a lockheed martin employee. here where they are over the north atlantic. about 360 miles above the plan jet that's higher than the international space station. check out their stellar view from the top of the ship dubbed "the dragon" which t...

This rocket with no training and not have to press any buttons, go 357 miles above earth, rotate, go 15 times around earth, come back down, splash down in the atlantic and they control everything from california. that's the technology we're watching right now. >> that's a no for me, dawg. i would root you on, cal, to do that. >> pass. >> from an engine -- there's something intriguing theoretically. from an engineering perspective, so the problem, right, to getting to something like routine civilian space flight exploration, that spacex has been trying solve, is that rocket issue, right? the co...

What we're going to witness basically is the closest thing that we've ever seen here in the u.s. at least to the kind of dream that we were sold as children, right? the futuristic dream of space travel available to normal people, nontrained astronauts, people being able to get on a rocket ship, engage in space travel. for the first time cal perry joins me live. he's standing by to watch launch. cal, what are we going to see here? >> reporter: chris, this rocket is going to take them 17,500 miles an hour where it will detach on a drone ship. a second rocket will push them into orbit. they shoul...