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CNN.com Offers Detailed Coverage of 100th Space Shuttle Mission

Aired October 5, 2000 - 9:31 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Detailed on-line coverage of that shuttle mission is just a mouse click away at cnn.com. You'll find a wealth of information and a few surprising features as well, where you can be the driver, or the pilot in this case.

Here is Leon Harris at cnn.com with more.

Hi, Leon.

LEON HARRIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Bill, you know, they told me the same thing, they gave me that same line about coming down here and being able to fly the shuttles. Folk, I didn't believe them. I am a believer now.

Check this out. You have got to come to the Web page, and come check out Web page at cnn.com/space.

What you will do is you will click down here on the in-depth 100th space shuttle flight. Now, as we have been talking all morning, this is the 100th shuttle flight. So, in commemoration of that, we have got an incredible collection of special things for you to do here.

Check this one out: We have got a Colt 3D model here.

HEMMER: Nice!

HARRIS: It was created especially for CNN using Colt 3D, which is an interactive 3D visualization software, a company called Psychor. Check this out, you can actually, with a mouse or with your finger, as we can on this screen, you can turn the shuttle, flip it around, see that?

HEMMER: Oh, yeah, 360, that's great.

HARRIS: Open the door.

HEMMER: It sure beats Atari, doesn't it?

HARRIS: It is the real deal, man. And then check this out after you get it all situated, put it where you want to. Get this. You hit this, you can make it fly away. Check that out.

HEMMER: Nice!

HARRIS: There you go, we have the technology, as they say.

Now, we also have another box that you can click on here that gives you an inside the cockpit look inside the shuttle. This is incredible. They took one of those 360 degree cameras. And went inside, and here again you can click with your mouse -- How is that?

You can zoom around the cockpit and get a 360 degree view of everything inside. Move too fast like that, it's like the aftermath of one of those parties that you go to, Bill.

HEMMER: Or the morning after.

HARRIS: Or the morning after.

Now, check this out, I got them all screwed around here. But here we have got a picture of a couple of guys who are sitting here hanging out. And guess who that is? That is our Miles O'Brien inside the cockpit of the shuttle. This guy has been in there.

And in fact, Miles is standing by right now. He has got more on what is going to happening on the Web page and on the shuttle coverage -- Miles.

MILES O'BRIEN, CNN SPACE CORRESPONDENT: Leon, I don't want you to get anywhere near any of those orbiters, anytime soon.

I have to tell you, actually that would be good training I think for weightlessness, what you just put everybody through there. There are folks at home probably feeling a little bit nauseous this morning.

This launch is going to be a launch in a different kind of way for CNN. We are going to be doing an awful lot more on the Web this time around to give you a little better ability to sort of drive the broadcast, if you will, or the Web cast.

Now starting at about 4:00 p.m. Eastern today, I will be available in the CNN chat room, the newsroom area, to take your questions about the space shuttle, the 100th mission, whatever else is on your mind related to space exploration and NASA, and the way NASA is handling space exploration.

Then, at 8:30, I will be back with a little bit more chat, and we will be getting very close to the launch of the space shuttle Discovery, scheduled for 9:38 p.m. Eastern time tonight. And we are told the weather is just about pristine for that incidentally, and no problems are anticipated on that.

So we are looking forward to an on-time launch at 9:38 p.m. Eastern.

Then, at about 9:15 Eastern time, we will begin an interactive Web cast, which will give you the opportunity to not only see the countdown, hear my commentary, along with a guest of ours, who will be joining us, one of the astronauts will be here. But, in addition to that, you will be able to send your questions to us, as we are doing our Web cast, and we will be able to answer them in realtime. So in many ways, you, the Internet user, will be able to tailor a Web cast to your own desires, exactly what you want to hear about the space shuttle.

Now, if for some reason, our conversation is -- well, I know this is hard to believe -- boring you somewhat, there are some other places to go on the Web where you can check out more about the space station, and this tremendous history of space shuttle flight, now nearly 20 years old.

You can take a look at a great timeline that our folks have put together, a milestone timeline, that will show you some of the key events in space shuttle history, everything from SDS-1, Young and Kripin (ph) back in April of 1981, all the way to present day. Some of the key events that have happened along the way.

And in addition, if you would like to find out a little bit more about this mission to the International Space Station, they are carrying some key components, which we be sort of a keystone for future construction on the International Space Station, that $100 billion project in low-Earth orbit. You also can find out more about the mission, as well as the crew.

So we have probably the most comprehensive Web capability ever attempted for any shuttle launch. And I guess it is fitting, Leon, that it's happening on the 100th shuttle flight.

HARRIS: It is. It is great. I got to tell you, folk, you are going to have so much fun on this one. You won't leave the Web page, believe me. There is so much there to see, and it's going to enhance the coverage today of the launch so much more.

And Miles, we look forward to seeing you with that later on.

Now back up to you, Bill, upstairs.

HEMMER: All right, Leon, Miles, thank you very much.

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