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>> rick: all right, thanks, edward. china taking a big step in their motion to explore the dark side of the moon. launching a satellite that will help officials to communicate with a space craft that they sent there. the country would be the first to put a ship on the far side of the moon. u.s. defense officials have said chinese are using their space program in part to try to stop other countries from using space assets during a crisis. the chinese say their plans are peaceful. the summit between president trump and north korean dictator kim jong-un looking far from certain. now the man that ...

Are about to see two b-2 bombers fly over the air force academy. why this is happening? fox news is invited on a mission to mars or at least we get to see the space craft going to the red planet. that's something. an inside look next. ♪

Need to know more about the planet. that's where this guy, the mars insight lander, comes in. >> we're going to make a map of the inside of mars and use that map to inform our knowledge of planets are formed. >> but getting to mars first means from getting from the insight development site at lockheed-martin's facility in colorado to vandenberg air force base in california. fox news was the only tv crew invited along for the journey. >> this is a critical move throughout the entire build-up and test of the space craft, we have taken huge amounts of precautions to make sure it's been safe the e...

Its mission to mars. fox news was invited for the ride. jonathan hunt is the man you want on this job. live now at nasa's jet propulsion lab in pasadena, take it away. >> hi, harris. you probably heard president trump call it a beautiful thing. this is it. the mars insight lander leading away for nasa's next great leap. >> we're going to make a map of the inside of mars and use that map to inform our knowledge of planets are formed. >> but getting to mars first means from getting from the insight development site at lockheed-martin's facility in colorado to vandenberg air force base in califor...

We're about four minutes away from the two outer rocket boosters -- they're falling down now. at some point we'll see the glow of their engines as they reverse thrust and land over at the landing zone. the center core will continue out towards the atlantic to try to land on the drone ship. never before in the history of space travel have three rockets blasted off from a launch pad delivering the pay load, what appears to be flawlessly and landing all three rockets back on land to then be recycled and reused for future launches. still to come for spacex, their bfr, big rocket, that will have a ...