[ all cheering ] -people had seen apollo launches exploring the moon. the space shuttle reignited that interest. it was the pride of the united states. -columbia, houston. -i still think it s one of the most complex machines ever built by the human race. in the beginning, there were four operating shuttles columbia, challenger, atlantis, and discovery. one of the goals was to fly 20 missions a year. sometimes they were sending satellites, quite a few classified missions for the department of defense. eventually they were used for assembling and building the international space station. but reusability puts demands on the design that it has to be robust and resilient and come back intact and fully operational. it s a huge demand.
and they identified very early on and got images early on and everything went about perfectly, just maybe there could have been a rescue mission. but it s questionable whether you could get the other orbiter, which would have been atlantis in this case, processed and out to the pad in time without putting that crew at serious risk. we would have had to pull together this huge effort in the eleventh hour to figure out how to fly one shuttle next to the other to conduct an operation that you d never trained or prepared for. it was not in the art of the possible given what we knew. -the one tool we could have tried to look at was changing the way entry is done, trying to change how it enters the atmosphere. you can change the angle of attack coming in so you can lessen the heat in certain areas
-for that mission we did space walks to practise repairing tile outside, to repair the leading edge of the wing, the reinforced carbon-carbon. we developed techniques to make sure that we had the ability to repair the space shuttle if we find another hole in the wing or the tile. -atlantis, welcome to the international space station for the last time. -the shuttle had at long last served its purpose, in building the space station. but, as time went on, it was evident it was time to move onto something else. and frankly something with a fundamental redesign. -having fired the imagination of a generation, its place in history secured, the space shuttle pulls into port for the last time it s voyage at an end.
his campaign back into february. that account house around 300,000 followers. mr. biden also supported efforts to ban the app. he signed a bill into law this year to force tiktok chinese parent company to sell the platform. tiktok is fighting the law in court. bill: a water pressure slowly coming back on parts of atlanta after a major water mains broke. causing a widespread water outage as well as the state of emergency but one hospital had to relocate some of their patients. much of the city still under a boil water advisory. madisons carpino has the latest. we are just learning cruise are working to repair another water main and atlantis is definitely not as severe as the two main water breaks it s is impacting over 30 homes who do not have any water. many people in the city were without water or had very little
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