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>> first time i saw "columbia" and got close to it, my whole thought was, oh my god, it's big. and this is going to go 17,500 miles per hour? >> more than half a million people crowded the beaches around cape kennedy this morning if witness firsthand the first space shuttle launch. >> t-minus ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four -- we've gone for main engine start -- >> we added a giant fuel tank to it and two solid rocket boosters that are the largest pop bottle rockets on the planet. when you light that puppy, it's going somewhere. >> america's first space shuttle. and the shuttle has cl...

And how hard they work. any thoughts you want to share with them about the effort they put in so far? i'm very proud of the launch team. they do it right. they do it by the book. they do it very professionally. and that's why we have had this extraordinary success that we've had over the years. sometimes we make mistakes, but we try to minimize those because these are human being. lives on the top of that rocket. and i can tell you, when you strap in to that rocket, you are very grateful that you've got a launch team like this that knows what they're doing. and they're not going to let you go ...

But, yeah, the options going forward are just to go ahead and fix this problem and try to fly as soon as we can. there are other constraints, of course, the availability of the range over at the launch facility and so i think we are looking at, it was said earlier, if it's not going to be in the next week or so, it will be in the next several weeks or if we have to roll back it will be a month or so. this is a new vehicle and these things happen, unfortunately. it is using heritage hardware, the space shuttle nain engine is very well understood, it is using the backbone, if you will, of the ex...

And you know first—hand the power of those rs25s and those two solid rocket boosters from your flight. really quickly, before we let you go, you were over there at our vip area as well, had some special guests. you were telling me an interesting story about a guest you had there. there was a young man before he was seven years old. he wanted very much to be an astronomer and he signed a document with other children. that is on artemis. and the reason that's so important, that young man named gaskin died from brain cancer. his family is a special guest of nascar here today. ——nasa. today ...

Eiuht training. there will be an apollo eight mission _ training. there will be an apollo eight mission where _ training. there will be an apollo eight mission where they - training. there will be an apollo eight mission where they will. training. there will be an apollo l eight mission where they will loop around the moon a comeback. everybody is very excited, we have to do _ everybody is very excited, we have to do our— everybody is very excited, we have to do our test flight first without the crew — to do our test flight first without the crew and then a test flight with the crew and th...