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Pad. so it's very familiar to the shuttle program. liquid hydrogen ultimately is the coldest substance on the planet, hydrogen is the lightest element. you have all kinds of extremes. it tension to leak it tension to -- tension to leak, it tends to leak up plumbing. and this bedeviled the program. here we have a main engine up to its old tricks. you know, i don't know how long it will take to fix it, but it could take a while. >> so on the one hand is it helpful -- there's been so much talk this morning, i've been listening throughout the morning talking about how -- these are all parts. so in...

They've even used all of these parts, the solid rocket booster, almost all of them came from the space shuttle. in fact, two parts down here actually flew on my dad's space shuttle flight back in the early 1980s. i mean, that's how old these parts are. with that said, a lot of them are also battle tested. these rs-25 engines have been, you know, tested time and time again on this space shuttle. the engines down here that are on the artemis rocket behind me have flown a combined more than 20 shuttle missions. so there is something to be said for hardware that has actually proven that it can pro...

Civilian space travel become a reality and so with us tonight retired astronaut chris hadfield. he is the first canadian to walk in space, flew on two shuttle missions, served importantly as commander of the international space station. he's a pilot, engineer, thinker, writer, author of several books. his latest is "the apollo murders." commander, it's a great treat to see you and talk to you again. so i'm reading the book. having never lifted off and left the surly bonds of earth i come to chapter 22, it felt like i was experiencing liftoff. i have never read a more gripping or graphic accoun...

Space travel has allowed us to explore the mysteries of the cosmos. However, new mysteries about certain spacecraft, famous cosmonauts, and

Do we make this cheaper, how do we open it up to everybody. the way that my generation -- and i'm old enough to know what a stick of beeman's is and what the right stuff is. the way my generation looks at those apollo missions is the way my kids are going to look at the shuttle missions. the idea that we used to just dump the boosters into the sea, stick them in a warehouse, not reuse them. that is old, elon musk, spacex, like you said, they're going further and farther than bezos. they're doing things that are more difficult, and this is a man and a company that wants to be in the space freig...