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all right, welcome back, i m fredricka whitfield. it s been more than 14 years since a mission to mercury has taken place. all that changed today when a space probe launched to the tiniest planet in our solar system to gather information on its composition, atmosphere and geophysics. here s cnn s robyn kurnow. reporter: it has a long journey ahead. 8 million kilometers to be exact. this spacecraft is headed to mercury, the planet closest to the sun. to travel that far, scientists expect it s going to take seven years to get there and it won t be easy. flying around mercury is one of the most challenging spaceflight endeavors that has ever been taken. we have a very long time to get
say there s a few possibilities. let s say that the that the ban is temporarily the enforcement of the ban is the restraining order stays in place from judge robarts. that means there will be a full trial possibly on merits in that seattle courtroom in front of judge roberts and then whoever loses will appeal that to the 9th circuit court of appeals and whoever loses there will appeal it to the supreme court. i imagine that the united states supreme court will hear this executive order, which is what they do. that s what happens. thank you very much for answering our questions. we ve got more coming up after the break. and this has been cnn s breaking coverage. i m robyn kurnow.
court will adjourn. [ sobbing ] all right. at that point, the judge called for an adjournment. she ended the court session for today. oscar pistorius will continue his testimony tomorrow. robyn, i wanted to ask you, steenkamp s family was in the courtroom. then were listening to this testimony. what was their reaction? reporter: you know, as you can hear, it s gut wrenching for anyone to listen to it, whether you have a stake in it, whether you believe he did it or didn t do it, it s a very, very powerful piece of testimony. but reeva steenkamp s mother largely, i must say, pretty stony faced throughout it. through much of this entire court case. there was a moment or two where she bowed her head down, holding her head in her hands. she was supported by her lawyer. reeva s cousin and a few of her friends also in court sitting around reeva steenkamp s mother.
pistorius. moments ago in his own words the disgraced track star described the final moments before he shot and killed his girlfriend, reeva steenkamp. then i heard a noise from inside the toilet, but i perceived it to be somebody coming out of the poilt. before i knew it, i d fired four shots at the door. my ears were ringing. i couldn t hear anything. so i shot i kept on shouting for receive sa eva to phone the. i still was trying to retreat because i wasn t sure if there was somebody on the ladder, if there was somebody in the toilet. let s bring in cnn robyn kurnow from pretoria south africa and kelly phelps, a cnn legal analyst. robyn, you were inside the courtroom for that dramatic moment. take us through how oscar pistorius described that night, when he killed reeva steenkamp.