3, 2, one, full power and lift off, go falcon, go dragon. reporter: you can hear the crowd cheering, space x s powerful falcon 9 rocket launched a spacecraft named endurance into low earth orbit where it will dock with the international space station on sunday morning. the crew 7 mission includes astronauts from denmark and japan and a russian cosmonaut. the one american on board is the mission commander, jasmine mobelli a whose parents fled iran during the 1979 revolution. from four different nations, denmark, japan, russia, the united states, a common mission. reporter: european space agency astronaut mogenson
He and his daughter both won the prestigious honor. a representative for jones said he died due to a long-standing pulmonary issue. ron cephas jones was 66 years old. today final preparations began in florida for nasa s next crewed mission to the international space station. the crew of four are led by the only woman and the only american on board. they are set to lift off friday from the kennedy space center on a spacex rocket and capsule. next on the cbs weekend news, the scramble to help some of the most vulnerable victims following the maui wildfires. df. it may b be time to o see ththe bigger p picture. heheart faililure and seseemiy unrelateted symptomsms like c carpal tunnnnel syndrom. shorortness of b breath. and d irregular r heartbeatt cocould mean s something more sererious, calllled attr-cmcm a rare, underdiaiagnosed disisease ththat worsensns over timem.
Cosmonauts go. it s it launched two months ago, carrying two russians and an american on board. it serves as a lifeboat in case something goes wrong. it can ferry that three-person crew back to earth and it was supposed to do that in march, and now it springs a leak, a coolant leak, and it happened as two russian cosmonauts were preparing for that space walk, and they canceled that, and they re trying to fix it and if that spacecraft will be able to bring those cosmonauts and astronaut home. thank you. now to idaho where the mother of one of the students who was murdered last month is speaking out. she says she s been left in the dark by police investigators, and claimed she s received what little information she has from people who just pick up the phone and call her. cnn national correspondent
Arrested. the flight with more than 100 passengers and crew were held for 17 days before being released. the hijackers killed an american on board. the president is acknowledging that he mentioned joe biden and joe biden s son in a call with ukraine s president, a call that prompted a whistle blower to come forward. and as some democrats are calling for impeachment, they may have a big supporter from across the aisle. that s coming up. we call it the mother standard of care.
Task force to advance research and prevention efforts. a father, a leader and a loving brother, that is how loved ones are remembering a group of american tourists killed in a helicopter crash in kenya over the weekend. the helicopter crashed in the central island national park on the country s northern border and when a rescue team arrived, all four american on board and the pilot were dead. kyle would have turned 30 in august and in a statement to cnn, his wife describes him as lovely, in addition to his wife, he leaves behind five children and a sixth child on the way. the family of 28-year-old anders asher burke says that kenya was berk s favorite place on earth. he had recently purchased land there. those closest to him say he was nothing short of magnetic and brandon stapford who had been posting photos on instagram just before the crash.