Pelley americas long pause from launching humans into space may change with a bold mission to send two private citizens, paying customers, around the moon and back. The announcement came from elon musk, the entrepreneur who created tesla electric cars and spacex, a rocket maker that already sends unmanned cargo capsules to the space station for nasa. Musk plans to launch late next year, about six years after the space shuttles last flight and nearly half a century after the last apollo astronauts left their foot prints in the lunar dust. Heres don dahler. Two, one, zero, liftoff. Lawsuit spacex will attempt to lawn two unnamed individual, said to be very serious about traveling ash the moon. Theyve already put down whats described as a serious deposit. Cbs news space expert bill harwood. Talk is cheap. Launching a mission like this safely is a tall order. Reporter the company has not released what the weeklong journey will cost, but it says it will take the amateur space travelers near
With scott pelley. Harwood. Talk is cheap. Launching a mission like this safely is a tall order. Reporter the company has not released what the weeklong journey will cost, but it says it will take the amateur space travelers near the moons surface and further out to space before looping back to earth, a distance of 200 to 300,000 miles. Theyll be aboard a fully automated spacecraft with no human pilot. Three years ago spacex founder elon musk told scott pelley for 60 minutes his friends were dubious. I had so many people try to talk me out of starting the company, it was crazy. Pelley what did they tell you . One good friend of mine collected a whole series of videos of rockets blowing up and made we watch those. He just didnt want me to lose all my money. Reporter in fact, spacex added to the collection of explosion videos with two spectacular failures, but recently the company has had a string of successful launches and landings. Still, musk is known for making bold predictions that
There was light, rain, fog and mist reported in the area at the time when the plane took off around 4 40. But visibility was pretty good, 2 miles, considered decent. The pilot of a cessna does require a special more advanced license. Theyre all built between 1954 and 1980. Its a sixseater. But we do know, according to riverside fire, that there were four people on board at the time. Neighbors weve been hearing from them in los angeles. They heard a loud explosion and they could feel extreme heat when the plane crashed. A lot of fuel on board were presuming because it had just taken off. And witnesses toll our nbc station in l. A. The plane just took a sudden turn and then just nosediefd dived to the ground. Four people on board. Their condition is unknown. But one fatality. The other thing still missing and two residents pulled from the burning home alive. We do not know their condition but they were taken away by ambulance. Were going to keep an eye on the situation and try to find ou
And stay human. And now live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause stephen hey good to see ya cheers and applause have a seat thank you so much oh ladies and gentlemen, welcome cheering welcome to the late show. Im la la land. Sorry, im Stephen Colbert. laughter dear lordie, did you see that last night . That was the craziest ending to the oscars since it turned out helen mirren was kaiser soze. laughter for those of you who only watched the first three hours and twenty nine minutes of the ceremony, spoiler alert, moonlight won best picture. cheers and applause beautiful. But heres how Warren Beatty and faye dunaway announced the category. And the academy award. For best picture. Youre impossible. Come on la la land. cheers and applause audience reacts stephen that is so uncomfortable to watch when you know whats coming. Its like watching titanic, except titanic actually won best picture. cheers and applause piano riff yeah, yeah
What really happened with that epic oscars mixup. The tweet that may be at the center of it all and the man that may be responsible for the mistake now revealed. What the academy and Host Jimmy Kimmel are saying overnight as the plot thickens this morning. Good morning, america. A lot of news. And the winner is oh. You couldnt wait. Too soon. Too soon . We have new details about the major oscars mistake when Warren Beatty was, of course, handed the wrong envelope. We see this team on the red carpet every year. They have lovely people with their briefcases and theyre full of the oscars winners. Usually its their moment in the spotlight but now theyre at the center of it. For a different reason. More on that coming. Big day in washington. Live look at the capitol hill his first address to a scombroints session of congress, that, of course, is tonight. The president getting ready right now. He is expected to lay out the vision for the nation so lets go right to abcs senior White House Cor