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taken them, so they're now four years behind spacex. i think now that they have gotten this flight off, i agree with derrick, this was a critical mission not just for nasa, but for boeing to demonstrate, to give them confidence to demonstrate they have the capability to do this. we're far from complete. we have got to get off the centar, do some tests on the cst 100 over the next day and tomorrow hopefully we'll have a perfect docking, spend eight days on the international space station and then undock and come home. the ultimate test is how does the spacecraft handle the intense hea...

All the way to the 1960s. so, what's new is that spaceship on the top, as it is on its way to the space station. >> and, tom, real quickly, what happens to the rest of that rocket as it separates and you see all the things that happen before. all the different parts, what happens to them? >> unlike spacex, which has demonstrated it can re-use its boosters, this is not the case with atlas 5. they fall down into the atlantic ocean and what is re-useable is the spaceship itself. if it parachutes back to earth and they hope to re-use it as many as ten times is the plan for starliner. >> tom costel...