shuttle. we are now less than one hour away from the final space shuttle landing. just in the last half-hour, we got a go for landing from nasa. the deorbit burn took place in the last couple of minutes. in the burn, the shuttle s engines are fired to help it slow down before it hits the atmosphere. in less than 30 minutes the shuttle and crew will start to feel the effects of the atmosphere. they ll be about 80 miles above the earth at that point. as the shuttle comes through the atmosphere, it heats up to about 5,000 degrees on the outside. when it breaks through the atmosphere, many of the folks in florida will hear those famous son iic booms. about five minutes before the landing, the commander will take manual control of the shuttle and pilot it to the grounds. when the orbiter hits the runway, it will be going 220 miles an hour. the shuttle will land for the last time ever at 5:56 a.m. eastern time. and just so you know, nasa is considering this a night landing. the lan
the crisis, by drought, poverty and violence. half of the camps are fled to ethiopia and kenya. a man who was accused of strangling a woman, has been sent to prison. her killer went to extraordinary lengths to avoid arrest for more than two years, altering his face through cosmetic surgery. the space shuttle atlantis is about two hours from landing at the kennedy space station. the crew will fire the engines to re-enter the atmosphere and end america s 30-year shuttle program. those are the headlines from cnn. i m monita rajpal. world business today starts right now. a warm welcome to world business today. these are the top stories on thursday, july 21st. nickly sarkozy and angela merkel see eye-to-eye ahead of debt crisis talks in europe. the same can t be said in the united states, where legislators are considering a short-term fix to the borrowing limit debacle. and for all the talk of tablets, don t write off the p.c. just yet. we ll talk to intel on how
oversee the last 65 shuttle missions. once atlantis lands safely officials plan to turn it into a training room for astronauts and flight controllers. when they hang the final mission plaque on the wall there will be a lot of tears. tune in for fox and friends tomorrow an hour early at 5:00 a.m. eastern, 4:00 a.m. in oxford for live coverage of shuttle atlantis making its final return to earth. scheduled to touch down at kennedy space center 5:56 a.m. eastern daylight time. on september 11th, 2001, new york s finest rushed into the buildings in downtown manhattan and some never came home. among them, 11 firefighters who were aboard the truck from ladder three it is a it sped toward the twin towers. they died when the towers collapsed. the new plans to recognize their sacrifice ahead in our weekly rise of freedom series. plus, a man lose losses his ene
shepard: and officials at nasa getting ready to say goodbye to another piece of history the space shuttle flight control room better known as mission control in houston. it is the room with the wavy desks and wall of monitors. nasa built it 16 years ago to oversee the last 65 shuttle missions. once atlantis lands safely officials plan to turn it into a training room for astronauts and flight controllers. when they hang the final mission plaque on the wall there will be a lot of tears. tune in for fox and friends tomorrow an hour early at 5:00 a.m. eastern, 4:00 a.m. in oxford for live coverage of shuttle atlantis making its final return to earth. scheduled to touch down at kennedy space center 5:56 a.m. eastern daylight time. on september 11th, 2001, new york s finest rushed into the buildings in downtown manhattan and some never came home. among them, 11 firefighters who
koulson quit the job in january, and was arrested last month. now, the prime minister is now in the mood to apologize. what the public expect is not pedestriany political point scoring, but [ jeering ] what they want is to solve the issue out once and for all, and it s in that spirit i commend this comment to the house. just yesterday rupert murdoch, his son james, and top british executive for news corp, rebekah brooks, were in front of the committee. of course, there s the prime minister, david cameron facing the single biggest crisis in his 15 months as prime minister. we have been watching the spectacle. is cameron s leadership really under threat here? reporter: well, it certainly is being tested to the absolute limit. yesterday it was rupert and james murdochs time to be grilled, and now it s cameron s day to face the music, and he was asked repeatedly in his decision to hire andy coulson, and now coulson has been arrested as part of the investigation. let s hea