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costello covers nasa for us. he has a school story. >> this is a hard day for engineers in nasa, who have devoted their lives to kasini. watching it go up in saturn's atmosphere, hopefully getting us closer to knowing if there is life somewhere out there. >> and liftoff of the spacecraft to saturn. >> reporter: we have never seen it up close until. >> the long journey to saturn. >> this spacecraft catapulted into the cass most than rocketed towards the ringed planet. this is what it beamed back. 500,000 awe-inspiring images. it took even years. but it was worth the wait. bringing us an unforgettable up-close look at jupiter. and then, of saturn. >> no spacecraft has gotten this close to saturn. that allows us to make measurements that you just can't make when you're orbiting outside the rings. >> reporter: just four months ago, cassini became the first spacecraft to plunge between the rings. >> you feel like you could touch the rings. >> reporter: and beneath them, that's us, earth. nasa's unprecedented 20-year 5 billion mile journey, answering that cosmic question, are we alone. revealin