republican congresswoman liz cheney lost her house seat in a huge defeat. the three-term congresswoman and the gop s most forceful critic down more than 37% this morning to trump endorsed candidate herriot hagueman. cheney had been sidelined by her party is hinting at a presidential run. are you thinking about running for president? that s a decision that i m going to make in the coming months, savannah, i m not going to make any announcements here this morning but it s something i m thinking about and will make a decision in the coming months. cnn chief national affairs correspondent jeff zeleny is in jackson, wyoming. a large margin, wider than some expected losing to harriet hagueman, what are voters telling you there this morning? it s one more data point former president donald trump is in control of this republican party and republican voters respond to his endorsements. in a state like this, there is no doubt that liz cheney trying to turn the page, she has fou
how many steps between now and repeating apollo 11? this is one of the last big ones. this is a big deal because this is the first time in about half a century that we have seen a nasa built rocket bound for the moon roll out to the launch pad before a launch. this is the really the first human grade rocket that nasa has built since the retirement of the space shuttle fleet. this is more than a decade in the making for nasa and jim, what really stood out to me about last night, it s not as exciting as a rocket launch. you can see it right there. that s the rocket rolling out to the launch pad because it has to go so slowly and as i was watching this, i was thinking i l i m not sure what is more ill press sieve, the more impressive vehicle the rocket or crawler that gets it there. this is the same crawler to transport the saturn five rockets in the 1960s and 70s. it s carrying a skyscraper four miles and can only travel a mile
really became a family. and so, yes, anytime you re going into space, it is incredibly risky. but spacex felt very confident that they had a safe vehicle. this is now the fourth crewed mission that spacex has launched into space. and of course, this comes after this nearly decades-long desert of u.s. astronauts being launched from u.s. soil after the retirement of the space shuttle fleet. so truly, we re witnessing this new era of space travel and really, you know, i ve been down to a lot of launches. this is the very first launch that i ve been to, first crewed launch where nasa really had no role in it whatsoever, because as you said, no nasa astronauts onboard, pam. so what does this mean for them? they can t really call themselves astronauts, though, even though they went through this mission, right? or can they? well, they are going to call themselves astronauts. spacex will call them
and i m not nervous about it. reporter: dan burbank is the only american on this mission. first astronaut to launch into space since retirement of the space shuttle fleet earlier this year. the price tag for his seat $56 million. the russian space agency desperately needed this launch to succeed after two catastrophic failures earlier this year. first an unmanned progress supply ship in august, blamed on a contaminated fuel line. now flight controllers are scrambling round-the-clock to communicate with another unmanned spacecraft. phobos grunt, launched on a three year mission to mars to bring samples back to earth. the spacecraft reached low earth orbit, but its engines failed to fire to send it on to the red planet. round-the-clock efforts to contact the crippled spacecraft have failed. it s inevitable, this spacecraft will plunge back to earth. it seems like this is the year