fume. the booster had lit and it was on profile and people started to scream it was really exciting in the control room. the scram jet engine isn t the only thing that makes this aircraft note worthy. the heat shields and the tile are the exact same materials you would find on the space shuttle. and while the space shuttle program is retiring next year, its technology will live on. in a future generation aircraft, similar to this one that will one day take us back to space. in palm dale, california, anita vogel, fox news. shepard: well, a spectacular multi-million-dollar heist caught on tape. look at this thing. masked robbers using ropes and saws and explosives and a helicopter. see that upper right in the screen in the spot shadow? there they are landing on the roof and there they are climbing down through it ahead, how many millions they stole and the tapes that prove they were in there. plus, life on the gulf coast after the oil spill.
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examined in order to determine how the heat shields are to the so the space shuttle can come back safely into the earth s atmosphere. you are looking and we just saw pictures of nasa. we are looking now at pictures in space obviously where we are waiting on the actual docking to take place. there is a crew of 7 members on the discovery. and they are joining they are about to join the expedition 23 crew on board the international spacestation as they work toward an early morning wednesday docking with the out post. we will continue to keep you posted. we are taking this live hoping at any second it will happen so you can see it. this today is docking day. the shuttle discuff reis going to discovery is going to dock today, and the 7-member crew will rendezvous, so to speak, with the folks that are part of the expedition 33 crew. now i am being told they have
as the rendezvous pitch maneuver took place an hour ago. and the final link up is what we are waiting for. it was supposed to happen at 3 on. 42 this morning eastern 3:42 eastern time. actually it was supposed to be 3:44 a.m. and it is now 10, 12 seconds after that time. we are waiting on that actual link up to happen. about an hour ago we were watching some video. it was pretty fascinating to see because we were looking at the discovery. and the commander on the discovery actually rotates the shuttle so that the under side faces the spacestation. that way thend commaer inside the spacestation, can take photos of the belly which exposed the heat shield tiles. they take about 300 pictures and then the flight engineer actually takes video of the heat shields and all of the pictures and video are
docked. our producer is in our ear telling us they have docked. you are looking at a successful docking linking with the spacestation. and just to recap, today is docking day. the space shuttle discovery that entered into space on monday is now docked with the international spacestation. they have taken photos of the heat shields and i m sure we will get more information as to what the nasa crews is discovering based on the pictures, if it is safe for the space shuttle to re-enter the earth s atmosphere at the end of the week. thank you so much for watching and we will continue to keep you posted. we now return to red eye which is already in progress. we are all southern rock gods, but we are trying to do something that is just not the same old thing. you have to come back and have some more fun here. what we will do is keep you on the set. you can just come we ll come up with lyrics for songs