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You are just incredible. i think really you should try the car from over here with my controls. 0k. i'm happy to do that, but not at that speed. well, this is a first. what an honour. what a thrill! what a potential humiliation! to drive the car, you're gonna point your nose where you wanna go. don't lean — leaning's not gonna work — you actually have to rotate your head. wow. ready to give it a shot? i'm ready to give it a shot. i'm just gonna let it go, and then start puffing. and here's the thing — from pretty much the start of the first lap, i get it. it does take a lot of concentrat...

I'm in total control and there's very few things in my life that i have control over, you know, and to be able to steer and gas and brakejust like the old days... sam, thanks for being so inspiring. i've gotta make a call now and let someone know how i did. thanks, spencer. uh—oh. hey, lara. yeah, sam beat me. not a surprise, really, when you think about it. no, but you did well. how do you feel? i feel inspired, very humble, a bit sick and glad it's over. anyway, i'll see you later. that is it for this week. thank you so much for watching. as ever, you can keep up with the team on social me...

A faster lap than him, me with conventional controls at him with his controls. if this goes wrong, make sure they edit it kindly. i've spoken to some of the team here and they say, you know the black stuff on the track, stay on that. thanks. all right, wish luck. see, in my mind this isn't a foregone conclusion. in some ways, i have an advantage. i know this circuit and i'm using the same controls that i have for my entire adult life. all right. hi. well, how'd i do? 1.50... is that good? respectable. laughter so let's see if sam can beat my flying lap of 1.50.

This is a look of part amazement and part terror. i'm a passenger in a modified chevrolet corvette c8 stingray, but it's who is driving, and how he's driving that is blowing my mind. we've met sam schmidt before. he's a racing driver who was paralysed in an accident in 2000, and five years ago, he took us for a ride through las vegas in a car that allowed him to drive using just his head and his mouth. so, the steering system, it's an ir camera system and whichever way you turn your head steers the car — he'll turn his head angle into a steering angle. the gas and brake, it's a sip and puff ...

That is already in space. demi's mirrors reflect distracting, unwanted light away, giving scientists a better look at far—away planets. the demi's tracked by our rooftop antenna so we can see when it's closest to boston to send comments or collect data from it. we could find life outside our planet for the first time in the next few decades. our goal now is to have new star lab satellites launched every couple of years. thank you so much forjoining us in our lab tour today. earlier on, i met sam schmidt, who took me for a few laps at goodwood. hitting 128mph using just his head and his mouth...