43 passengers kept on board a plane for more than three hours. the cause, a bug bite. newsroom begins right now. good morning to you. i m carol costello. you are bere its final flight. the granddaddy of a program. it was the next wave of a space race that had americans holding their breath. a craft so futuristic and exciting president ford told nasa to name it after captain kirk s ship from the legendary show star trek. space, the final frontier. these are the voyages of the starship enterprise. its five-year mission to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life. we did go where no man had gone before and today we take you to washington where just minutes from now the enterprise will take off for new york city. let s start in miami. john zarrella kicks off our coverage. i m ready for some spectacular pictures. no question about it. this ought to be sensational. it was supposed to be named the constitution but with the power of the trekies they got the
satellites but on the space stairks this ranks as one of the most complex ever attempted. gregg: these pumps are the sides of a refrench traitor, they weigh almost 100 pounds, yet you can lift it with your pinky, right? that s right, they have no weight in outer space. basically you re in free fall, you are in free fall, everything is falling out of space at the same rate, so we have the optical illusion that it s not weighing anything. it s falling and you re falling. gregg: amazing, the incredible speed. 18,000 miles an hour. that s how fast it s moving. it seems like nothing in the middle of it. right, because everything is moving at 18,000 miles an hour. gregg: you don t even know it. you don t know it, right. gregg: i think they re going to do one more space walk just to check out the systems, do a run-through, to make sure that they work, right? that s right. three space walks they have been done already in the last two weeks, the fourth one will take place probably