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That something can go terribly wrong. there's never a way you can reduce the risk to zero. the astronauts are well aware of that. out of seven members, three of them are people i worked closely during the early days of the space station program. so they're very aware when they strap in that there's no way to reduce the risk to zero and i think it's, in fact, riskier than doing combat missions in an aircraft over afghanistan, for example. >> tom, i was shocked to see as we've seen how much stuff is being brought up there, how much equipment is being brought to the international space station, i...

>> zero, we have lift off of the falcon 9. >> shepard: with that the private exploration takes off in america. the company space exploration technologies or space x as they call it test ago craft for nasa. it's dragon capsule rode the falcon 9 rocket into earth's orbit today. circled the world a couple of times and parachuted right into the ocean. space x the first commercial outfit to recovered a space craft that reentered orbit. until now only government companies. private companies to take supplies and possibly astronauts to the international space station once it shuts down the space stati...

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