of 55 feet and a living space of just 50 cubic meters these astronauts are going into orbit in a capsule a bit larger than a city bus. any claustrophobic thought forgotten when the men do two planned space walks. inside they will test the tech and the living area and run experiments. two more laboratory modules expected to be launched in upcoming missions with the aims to have its space station fully operational by the end of next year. china wants its own because the u.s. government barred it from participating in the international space station project. china says their heavenly palace will be truly international. translator: foreign astronauts are certainly going to enter the chinese space station one day. there are a number of countries that have expressed a desire to do that and we will be open to that in the future. reporter:? just the past seven months china has put a rover on the moon and
increasingly ambitious space goals. as president xi jinping has put it, china will eventually become a, quote, unquote, great power in space. this mission comes on the heels of two recent successful launches of rovers, both to the moon and to mars. as we mentioned, this mission is the third launch in a series of 11 missions aimed at building the country s first space station. in late april, they have launched the core module of the space station, and a few weeks ago, they launched a cargo spacecraft carrying supplies for the three astronauts to dock with the module. these three men, once they re in space, they re going to spend about three months there conducting two lengthy spacewalks to install equipment on the space station. now, all these men are veterans in china s space program. one of the main reasons they re building their own space station of course is they have long been excluded from the international space station because in 2011,
doing their space walks. that is two flight engineers. a teenagerfrom california has decribed the moment she fought off a bear to protect her pet dogs. hailey morinico, who is 17, didn t hesitate when she saw the mother bear on the wall of her back yard with two cubs, fighting with her three dogs. home cctv shows hailey running outside, shoving the bear back, and rounding up her pets before running back inside. the teeanger sprained her finger but otherwise was unscathed. there she goes. pushes the bear. absolutely phenomenal. i rle there she goes. pushes the bear. absolutely phenomenal. i ran over to the bear and absolutely phenomenal. i ran over to the bear and the absolutely phenomenal. i ran over to the bear and the first absolutely phenomenal. i ran over to the bear and the first thing absolutely phenomenal. i ran over to the bear and the first thing i - absolutely phenomenal. i ran over to the bear and the first thing i think i the bear and the first thing i think to do i
space debris. that s a millimeter long, 35,000 objects more than 10 centimeters long like parts of satellites and rockets dangerous to the international space station and people doing space walks. back to you. john: ed lawrence from control central here in washington. thanks so much. gillian? gillian: the unofficial start to summer is finally just a few days away. it means time to fire up your grill. in case you haven t noticed, you ll pay more this season at the supermarkets specifically for chicken. lydia hu has more from new york. hi, lydia. hey, gillian. you know, like you said, the cost of chicken has gone up. that s because the cost to raise them to slaughter has increased for farmers and we re seeing that as demand continues to surge. the price for a pound of chicken breast on average is up 46%. one pound of chicken wings is up 28%. we re here in orange county,
going forward to the moon and to mars. you know, overall though, i have to say my biggest hope for the record is that it s succeeded as soon as possible again and that s because it just would mean we re continuing to push those boundaries. i know that in october, you had this historic all-female space walk. tell me what that was like. it was an incredible honor. i have to say that it wasn t necessarily something on my radar from the start of my training. but then in the end, to have the opportunity to do that and to do it with another crew mate of mine who i have been training with for so long, jessica meir, was truly inspirational for us. but it was our honor to hopefully be able to inspire the next generation of human space explorers. and also pay homage that paved the way for us to be here. not only our heroines who had actually done space walks in the past but our training teams and the teams we work with to make space walks happen. so it was overall just incredible honor.