. -- broadcast to outerspace.t is a media company apart. it is not new york. it is a good hike from the center of the media world, 2.5 hours, and you get there and see this amazing centerpiece of the espn campus, the studio. it is like being in a cathedral. the two studios together, and there is class between them, it is like 10,000 square feet. that is bigger than the central aisle at the cathedral of notre dame. it is really huge. it gives you a sense of this business, which is all about this showy, creating this spectacle of sports. it is one of the few mass cultural phenomenons that exist today. when you see this amazing studio, it only open two years ago but already feels like a relic when sportscenter and a single destination for sports -- it is shifting away from espn. oliver: you describe this extremely cutting edge tech, or at least it was when they built it, hovering displays -- you can see everything. it is incredible. why does it now seem archaic? >> there is debate about whether they went wrong, and w

. >> i guess if you've been in outerspace, pulling g s-with thunderbirds. >>> a high school player's pregame performance turned him into a sensation. watch as he nails this 360 degree slam dunk. fans crowded the stands just to watch him warm up and do that dunking routine. the skills didn't stop there. the junior player scored 40 points throughout the game leading his team to victory. not surprising when you can pull off something like that during the warm-up. >> i wonder which nba team he's going to be working for. >> maybe have a few of them calling. >> i think so. racers tearing up the ice at the speed championship in the netherlands. the rip roaring event organized by the fed indication. amazingly these guys are daredevils, and they don't have brakes on their bikes. the russian won the title by crashing in the final race and managed to pop a wheelie while taking a lap to celebrate his victory. he kept going. >> evel knievel, watch out for that. >>'m yasmin vossoughian. i make the most of a few minutes with instant moisture from k-y ultragel. >>> 4:30 on your monday. a very happy

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every wonder what it's like to blast off into outerspace?d you don't even have to leave the comfort of your own home to do it. we've got the details on that coming up next. later, a country star carrie underwood gives her hockey star husband quite the shock on ice. we'll show you the very sweet surprise. surprise. >> another look at the white house this morning it's pretty and the flag just nice old gentle breeze out there. temperatures just about at the 60-degree mark this morning. very cool. >> 8:39 is the time. want to get up close view of a rocket launch? well you're in luck. later this morning nasa will provide life 360 view of the unmanned rocket atlas on youtube channel when it blasts off cape canaveral florida. four cameras right on the launch pad. just 300 feet away from the rocket. lift off scheduled for 11:11am. the rocket is filled with supplies are to the international space station. that would be pretty cool to see that. >> it would be great actually. >> you know what else is great what's coming up on good day. let's check in w

the outerspace treaty was signed in 1967 saying you can't weatherize space and can't own anything. that was a downer for project orion because it was nuclear and earth day came along, we got environmental awareness and people said is a good idea? even if you get stuff up there with regular rockets do you think it is a great idea to be launching wads of plutonium and uranium into space? rockets blow up sometimes and these things come back down. we have launched plutonium on at least three mars missions. a couple deep space missions, all the apollo missions, apollo 11. we have done it a bunch of times. the russians have done it more times than we have. one or two came back, they are sitting at the bottom of the ocean not bothering anybody. it is not a good thing but not as dangerous as we thought. we are not talking the scale of orion. if it had gone bad it would have been a bad day. other scenarios in the book, the idea of using the gemini spacecraft to land on the moon because the air force thought they could do that with apollo. to keep the apollo assembly-line in 1972, ideas, ver