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Larry King on the final installment of the Harry Potter movie series
It's been a magical ride.
After 10 years and $6 billion in ticket sales, the 8th and final Harry Potter film hits theaters in the U.S. next week.
This Sunday, Larry King will host a one-hour special with the cast of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part Two."
Larry will be premiering never-before-seen footage from the film as well as an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour with the special effects team that bring the magical world to life.
This morning, Kiran Chetry speaks with Larry about his brush with "Pottermania."
Larry's special "Harry Potter: The Final Chapter" airs on CNN Sunday at 8p ET.
Bob Crippen reflects on NASA's first space shuttle mission
When John Young and Bob Crippen launched on the space shuttle Columbia on April 12, 1981, it was the dawn of a new era of space travel.
Now that the program is wrapping up, does Crippen think that the program accomplished everything it set out to achieve?
He joins Ali Velshi on American Morning today to reflect on his astronaut experience and to weigh in on the future of NASA and space exploration.
Commercial spaceflights: The next step for the U.S. space program?
Garrett Reisman, former NASA astronaut, flew on the space shuttle twice, performed spacewalks, and spent about three months living on the International Space Station.
He recently left NASA to take a job with the commercial firm Space X, which hopes to one day launch NASA astronauts and paying tourists to space on its Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket.
Reisman joins Ali Velshi today on American Morning to talk about the future of the private and commercial space industry now that the shuttle era is coming to a close.
Microsoft's 'Imagine Cup' challenges students to innovate
Microsoft is kicking off its global student technology competition, "Imagine Cup," in New York City today. The competition challenges thousands of students from across the world to innovate and create new technology that solves some of the world's greatest challenges.
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, talks to American Morning today about why the company created the "Imagine Cup." Joining him are five students representing teams competing for the cup. Two of the students bring their inventions to set to show Kiran Chetry and Christine Romans what amazing innovations they will be presenting this weekend.
What's next for NASA's space program? A former astronaut looks at the possibilities
The Atlantis mission will close the books on NASA's space shuttle program. Where does space exploration go from here?
This morning, CNN's Ali Velshi takes an in-depth look at the future of space travel with Jim Halsell, a former astronaut who has flown five shuttle missions - two as a commander, three as a pilot. He's now a vice president with ATK Aerospace Systems, working on a commercial vehicle to take NASA's astronauts back to space.
In this video, he explains where he thinks space travel will go in the future.
Cancer patient recieves first fully synthetic organ transplant
Researchers announced yesterday that for the first time, a patient has received a synthetic windpipe that was created in a lab with the patient's own stem cells and without using human donor tissue.
On June 9, doctors implanted the synthetic trachea into a 36-year-old man with late-stage tracheal cancer at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm.
The patient, who had exhausted every other treatment available, is doing well and expected to be released from the hospital today.
Elizabeth Cohen, senior medical correspondent, discusses the procedure this morning with Kiran Chetry and Christine Romans, explaining if the treatment will now be available for other cancer patients.
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