tasted freedom. you ll experience all of that through the eyes and minds of my colleagues and friends, where it happened right from the start. january 2011, the rumblings of an uprising in cairo. crowds begin to gather in tahrir square. a revolution has begun. what is your message to president mubarak? he should leave tonight. mubarak has been the leader for years. they want him out. mubarak digs in and the once peaceful protest grows violent. this is an unmistakable military force. fighter jets flying low over tahrir square, liberation square, a symbol of defiance. what you are hearing them say is go, go. flying in the air. the demonstrators say that s the army firing to warn them to stay away. promubarak forces target the protesters. journalists come under attack. it s completely surreal experience. okay. okay. i m not okay, i m being told to walk. don t say okay. we have been hit now like ten times. the egyptian soldiers are doing nothing. we would
happened right from the start. january 2011, the rumblings of an uprising in cairo. crowds begin to gather in tahrir square. a revolution has begun. what is your message to president mubarak? he should leave tonight. mubarak has been the leader for years. they want him out. mubarak digs in and the once peaceful protest grows violent. this is an unmistakable military force. fighter jets flying low over tahrir square, liberation square, a symbol of defiance. what you are hearing them say is go, go. flying in the air. the demonstrators say that s the army firing to warn them to stay away. promubarak forces target the protesters. journalists come under attack. it s completely surreal experience. okay. okay. i m not okay, i m being told to walk. don t say okay. we have been hit now like ten times. the egyptian soldiers are doing nothing. we would like to be showing you instead of this picture, this strange picture of us sitting on the floor, we would like t
through the eyes and minds of my colleagues and friends, where it happened right from the start. january 2011, the rumblings of an uprising in cairo. crowds begin to gather in tahrir square. a revolution has begun. what is your message to president mubarak? he should leave tonight. mubarak has been the leader for years. they want him out. mubarak digs in and the once peaceful protest grows violent. this is an unmistakable military force. fighter jets flying low over tahrir square, liberation square, a symbol of defiance. what you are hearing them say is go, go. flying in the air. the demonstrators say that s the army firing to warn them to stay away. promubarak forces target the protesters. journalists come under attack. it s completely surreal experience. okay. okay. i m not okay, i m being told to walk. don t say okay. we have been hit now like ten times. the egyptian soldiers are doing nothing. we would like to be showing you instead of this picture
built, but initially skeptics wondered if it would even work. i remember sitting in the grandstand here at the press site talking to my colleagues and saying it won t work. it s too complicated. this, this is a disaster in the making. reporter: on april 12, 1981, veteran astronaut john young and pilot bob clippen were ready to prove nasa s critics wrong. they were chosen to take the shuttle into space. clippen reflected on that date during our recent phone interview. how my name came out of the hat has never been quite clear to me, but i m really proud that it did. it was just pure excitement. didn t have time to be scared. reporter: with the world watching, they set off on a two-day test flight. i turned to john, and i said i think we might do it, and that s when my heart rate went up to about 130. his was a nice, calm 90. i m really surprised mine didn t go any faster. reporter: together they
atlantis is hard at work on nasa s final shuttle mission. they are transferring equipment and supplies from atlantis, over to the international space station. and it will be the last trip to drop that stuff off, nasa s final shuttle mission under way, we look back at the first nerve-racking two-man flight that kicked off three decades of exploration, and kris gutierrez is live on this great story for us today. from dallas, hey, chris. reporter: hello, martha. the shuttle was built to launch like a rocket, and, then land like a plane, but back in the 1960s and 1970s, it was simply unheard of. take a look: reporter: the space shuttle is the most complex machine ever built. but initially skeptics wondered if it would even work. i remember sitting in the grandstand, here at the press site. talking to my colleagues and saying, it will not work. it is too complicated. the disaster in the making. reporter: on april 12, 1981,