Space shuttle atlantis. Mission to build, resupply, and do research on the International Space station. Eight and a half minutes later, you are now in space, and the things that you dropped are floating, the dust particles and things. You are still strapped in, and when the engines cut off, because you are accelerating in the stop, you feel like youre tumbling forward. I was like, whats going on here . Under the seat belt, i pushed off my back and flew to the window to videotape the planet. This thing is falling and we are trying to see any marks on it, seeing if something had hit our vehicle, like what happened to the columbia accident. I do this thing and im like, ok, and i see the caribbean. The colors of the ocean are so dramatic and blue. I almost need a new definition of blue to describe what im looking at. And we are going around the planet every 90 minutes and seeing the sunrise and sunset every five minutes. Im like, wow, this is space. Back at the planet, you see the sun, and
Coming week. But today a brief respite, lots of sunshine on offer across the uk. There are some showers round, mainly affecting north sea coasts it has to be said. They should ease as the afternoon goes on but the stormy conditions we have are clearing east ward and out to the west, a transient ridge of higher pressure which is helping to settle things down, but round that, we are feeding in cooler air, on a north westerly breeze but notice this wedge of something milderjust waiting in the atlantic, so the showers i mentioned here they are nicely on the radar image. As we go through the afternoon they should gradually ease and the blustery wind here should gradually start to ease down too. Elsewhere through the rest of the day, a good slice of some sunshine, winter sunshine out to the west for western parts of Northern Ireland and north west scotland, we may just start to see the cloud increase. It will feel cool, we may just start to see 10 celsius to the far south and west. Clear ski
Floor. We are live in crewe as election countdown continues, the eighth most marginal constituencies in the country in one of the places where the outcome of the election could be decided. The serial rapistJoseph Mccann is given 33 life sentences the judge describes him as a classic psychopath who will never cease to be dangerous. And russia is banned forfour years from major sporting events including the next 0lympics from major sporting events including the next olympics and world cup. Its five o clock our top story. Police in new zealand say there are no signs of life on the island where a volcano erupted, killing tourists who were on a visit to the crater. At least five people are confirmed to have been killed but more than twenty others are missing and police say they dont expect any more survivors. Day trippers were seen walking inside the rim of the crater of the white island volcano just moments before the eruption. Richard lister reports. Seconds after the eruption began, thes
Society. And russia is banned again from all major sporting events for doping this time, the band will last for years. And coming up at 8 30pm, a question time special with an audience entirely made up of under 30. Thats live on bbc one in the news channel at 8 30pm. Hello, good evening to you. If youre just joining hello, good evening to you. If yourejustjoining us, welcome to bbc news. At least five people have been killed and eight more are missing assumed dead after a volcano erupted off the coast of new zealand. Live images from the volcano showed a group of visitors the british high commissioner, laura clark, has announced that teams are offering assistance. Up to 50 people are believed to have been on the island at the time live images from the volcano showed a group of visitors inside the crater before the picture suddenly went dark. Up to 50 people are believed to have been on the island at the time 23 have been rescued. Fears of further eruptions means Emergency Services aren
A round table on President Donald Trump Meat Industry executives Health Advocates push for a ban on flavored cigarettes. So were looking at south america in this news hour with protests in several countries that have crippled major cities and brought many of them to a standstill 1st of all chilly the protests which began last month when students in santiago started demonstrating against a subway fare increase since then though its widened out its grown with demands for political and Economic Reforms then there is colombia a proposal to change the minimum wage and to introduce possible pension and tax reforms as led to a strike and a huge rally or number of rallies in bogota and in bolivia as well protests was sparked by a disputed president ial election former president evo morales denied any electoral fraud but he eventually resigned under pressure from the military and fled to mexico but his supporters kept protesting and calling for his return so lets start with the protests which r