MSNBC MSNBC News Live October 10, 2010
thick, and about 26 inches around. they're dropping them in to the shaft that's 28 inches wide for the first 315 feet. the fear is that the top area where the shaft goes down has some unstable ground, and that rocks could actually fall in down the hole as the capsule transits up and down. if they reinforce it with the steel pipe, they believe it will make things for a safer passage when they begin launching the capsule in the up and down direction. the capsule has room for one person. alex, actually it's kind of cold here today. usually the sun burns off the fog that we have here tod...
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