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It's like balancing a broomstick with your finger, with a lot more physics involved. what's so important about this is when you think about all the things we threw away on our way to space, the huge chunks of the apollo, the space shuttle aimed to be reusable, but it was not reusable in a practical way t. solid rocket boosters would be fished out of the water. the orbiter itself had those very fragile tiles on the surface which required a ton of work. owl of that added to the expense. imagine if every time we flew a 737 across the country they threw away the airplane? the likes of bezos and mu...

So i think elon musk with spacex pioneered that with the orbital rockets. they're doing it here with blue origin. virgin galactic's vehicle is reusable. that aspect of space travel is a huge change compared to the throw away rockets of the '60s and '70s. >> and for future space travel and exploration, miles, reusable rockets are essential. >> absolutely, anderson. you know, we tried to do this with the space shuttle, but we came up way short on the idea of reusability. they threw away the external fuel tank. it was very difficult to restack the solid rocket boosters. and the orbiter itself was...

Know, i think that's what everybody holds their breath on. they've done it successfully many times on test runs. but that is what actually -- they had a problem with that in 2014 and a test pilot was killed. they've done redesigns. they've done major safety stand downs to address all of that. but i think if there is any concern anybody has as it relates to this vehicle, as it is still a test vehicle, it's that particular feature. >> leland melvin, you have done this before of the group of people who are here with me this morning who has gone up into space. you did it a different way, a differe...

Away at the same time that space ship 2 ignites its rockets. the rocket engine is a hybrid engine. it's burning a oxidizer down the center, down the center of a solid fuel, rubber. and it is a rough ride. that engine is nice, smooth rocket engine like leland experienced on the solid rocket boosters. it's going to be a rough ride. it's loud. it's got a lot of vibration and it's going to be firing for a couple minutes. at the same time that the pilots are pointing the nose of space ship 2 literally straight up at the sky to get as much altitude as possible. and when the engine shuts down after t...

NASA's George C. Marshall Space Flight Center has more than six decades of history designing, building and testing a storied series of rockets, rocket engines and instruments to fly in space. The center’s accomplishments include the Redstone rocket used to launch Project Mercury, the Saturn rockets for the Apollo program, the Skylab space station, and the Hubble Space Telescope. Marshall is located on the grounds of the U.S. Army Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, a city in northern Alabama about 145 miles (233 kilometers) northwest of Atlanta, Georgia. The NASA Center employs nearly 6,000 peo...