please give a warm borders welcome to mike mullane. [applause] mullane: thank you very much, and good evening. i thought i would start by explaining what a shuttle launches like. launch is like. i will read from a few passages, but extemporaneously i want to describe to you what it's like to blast off into space. was iequently asked, afraid sitting on that launchpad. and i replied, no. i was not afraid. i was terrified. it goes beyond being afraid, folks. unlike a fighter jet where you are sitting on an ejection seat and you feel like if things go bad you can bailout, in a space shuttle you don't have that option. once you are in it, you know everything has to work just fine or bad things can happen. it is a significant fear factor sitting on that launchpad. you get a heavy vibration, it really rattles you. the countdown will continue to zero when the rocket boosters ignite and you are on your way. about 40 seconds into flight, you are doing supersonic, there are shockwaves on the vehicles from the gas tank and rocket boosters. you are

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. >> blair: 68-year-old mike mullane died after a brief illness. bopts fire department. tweets from other departments as him. he was friends with senator warren, marty walsh and helped campaign for major massachussetts democrats. >> vanessa: a happy homecoming, more than a hundred members from the army national guard back from the middle east back with their families tonight. jim was there for the emotional reunion. >> reporter: definitely an uplifting story for the new year 370 members. new hampshire national guard deployed to the middle east this year, some have been there nearly a year. they're coming home in groups of three. i caught the middle third and it was moving. they were gone a long time. >> it's been almost 11 months. >> over 300 days. >> but this afternoon for dozens of new hampshire families the wait of all those weeks and home. >> feeling was definitely a lot, so we are excited to have daddy back. >> more than 120 members of the new hampshire national guard arrived in manchester this afternoon after spending nearly a year in the middle east, training alli

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