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The ‘Luna-25′ probe is trying to make history by successfully landing on the hostile south pole, the new promised land of space exploration
And i'm not nervous about it. >> reporter: dan burbank is the only american on this mission. first astronaut to launch into space since retirement of the space shuttle fleet earlier this year. the price tag for his seat $56 million. the russian space agency desperately needed this launch to succeed after two catastrophic failures earlier this year. first an unmanned progress supply ship in august, blamed on a contaminated fuel line. now flight controllers are scrambling round-the-clock to communicate with another unmanned spacecraft. phobos grunt, launched on a three year mission to mars to br...