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Completed a series of history making events. >> reporter: a key objective is to test the heat shield. it is moving 24,000 miles an hour, 7 miles a second. the heatshield will get 5000 °. they are trying to skip reentry. the capsule will enter the's for, bounce back up, to reduce the heat and the g forces on the astronauts on reentry. 11 parachutes are going to slow this thing down to 20 miles an hour before it hits the water. recovery vessels, several navy ships, are there to bring in the orbiter if you will. the cost of this about $93 billion for all four of these missions. in 2,024, four as...

During that time the heat shield will a plate, meaning it will shed material. at one point the capsule will roll 180 degrees and go back up out into space. because it's going to need more time to cool. then it will reenter a second time and land precisely 50 miles off the coast of san diego. >> wow. >> so this has not been done before. it's very exciting. i know everybody -- brilliant folks at nasa. make no mistake. this is still a daunting challenge, and they're up for it. >> what is the difference in the space of time? is it a matter of minutes, hours? >> we're talking about a matter of minu...