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The Space Shuttle Endeavor takes off at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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How long would it take to get to Mars? What does it take to "touch" the sun? Why did the Russians try to invent a second moon?
We may have come a long way from "Where does the sun go at night?", But space always answers some of the biggest questions in life. Not to mention that it works great.
With all the unfathomable immensity of space, our questions about what will happen there will never be completely resolved. But we will try!
"Watch This Space" is the new CNET series that aims to answer all your burning space questions and teach you the amazing stuff humans are doing here on Earth to learn more about the big unknown.
In the honor of 60th Anniversary of NASA, we start with a tribute to the space agency of each. We examine decades of achievements (and sorrows) and explore how the space agency, created 60 years ago with the President Dwight D. Eisenhower's pencil stroke, opened new worlds, distributed space in our living rooms (and computer screens) and even brought us new technologies on Earth.
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NASA could get its Senior Card, but it shows no signs of slowing down. And that's as good – with SpaceX and Blue Origin is launching a new space race, with the idea of moving to Mars and sending new expeditions into the big unknown, space is more important than ever.
It has been almost five decades since the world sat on their television screens watching two men walk on the moon and we saw Watch This Space will offer everything the moon has done – images of the great unknown in a very good studio …
Check out our first episode below and log in every Friday on YouTube or CNET.com to watch this space.
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