"We could fly it at night, but the point was for them to see it, " said a U.S. defense official.

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And if we wanted to fly over the Viking lander, we could.

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Dr. GARRIOTT: We would have done whatever we could within reason, from a financial standpoint, everything that we owned, if we could just have this chance to fly in space.

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Would we be better off if we could run our cars on water rather than gasoline, and fly our airplanes without any fuel, and heat our homes with sunlight?

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We'd like to be able to tag and share interesting locations for later research, or bring up predicted future traffic information so we could plan trips better, or contribute back restaurant ratings on the fly or... you get the idea.

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And as part of an international coalition, under a U.N. mandate that is almost unprecedented, we went in and took out air defense systems so that an international coalition could provide a no-fly zone, could protect -- provide humanitarian protection to the people on the ground.

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As we flew here today, I also asked the pilot to fly over the Gulf Coast region so I could see firsthand the scope and magnitude of the devastation.

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"We did have a Coast Guard helicopter crew fly for 60 miles up the shoreline there to see if they could spot any environmental impact and they weren't able to find anything, " he said, adding a Coast Guard boat surveying 15 miles south of the site also detected nothing.

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