welcoming you to Wednesday's edition of CNN Student News.

Our first story centers on a detention facility,

a prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It's operated by the United States.

It's part of a US naval base on land that America

has leased from Cuba since 1903.

To start, we're covering the plan.

Yesterday, President Obama called for the detention facility

at Guantanamo to be closed.

The US Government has identified 13 potential places

Where officials could transfer the remaining prisoners,

there are about 91 of them there,

but no specific location was proposed.

This isn't the first time the President has pushed for Guantanamo's closure.

When President Obama was elected in 2008,

he vowed that he would close Guantanamo Bay within a year.

There we go. Seven years later, that has not happened.

Well, let's start from the beginning.

The Guantanamo facility is rented from the Cubans

and was normally used as sort of a naval and Coast Guard base

for the United States. When we went to war against Afghanistan in 2002,

soldiers were picking up what were called men who were unlawful combatants.

Who were picked up on the battlefield.

And they were sent to Guantanamo in sort of a hastily arranged agreement,

so that they might be processed while there.

Well, they weren't processed, they stayed there.

Over the course of the war on terror,

close to 1, 000 men have been detained at Guantanamo Bay.

Now the debate, the Obama administration says closing the detention center

and transferring the enemy combatants held there

would save the US tens of million of dollars per year.

They're been accusations that some of the prisoners at Gitmo

had been tortured or mistreated,

that the facility itself is a dangerous symbol being used abroad to recruit terrorists.

And President Obama says keeping the facility open

is contrary to American values.

The administration says it needs congressional approval to shut it down.

And Republicans and some Democrats have said

they're concerned that moving the prisoners to US soil

would threaten national security.

House Speaker Paul Ryan says moving suspected terrorists to the US is illegal.

And American intelligence suspects that dozens of the men

who have already been transferred out of Guantanamo

have returned to terrorism. Next, to India.

Almost 80 % of people there are Hindu.

And the controversial caste system

used to determine the advantages and disadvantages

that different castes or classes would have.

That was abolished 67 years ago.

And India had implemented programs to give those once considered members

of lower castes advantages in getting jobs and admissions.

But it's a relatively well- off group that recently protested,

blocking highways, burning buildings, and looting.

They say reverse discrimination has put them at a disadvantage,

and though they reached an agreement with the government

that ended the protests after 16 people died,

the demonstrations disrupted a water station

that supplied part of New Delhi.

We're at one of 150 water tanker filler stations

in New Delhi since the crisis began, they've been operating all day.

Every five to seven minutes or so,

a water tanker truck like this one has been arriving.

They've been filling it up and going to neighborhoods nearby in the North West of Delhi.

This one is headed to a colony around the corner

and we're gonna go along and see what happen's.

C4- G We're going to block C4- G.

We've been getting calls all day for water, he says.

As soon as the water tanker arrives,

residents emerge from what seems like nowhere,

one after another. Word has spread that the water tanker was arrived

so we've seen people coming from all over the neighborhood with their buckets,

containers like these, even kettles.

Basically whatever containers they have to fill up as much water as they can.

They haven't received any water here for the past three days,

and this is the first time the water tanker has arrived.

They jostle for space.

They argue as one asks the other to wait on line, the other shouts back.

Don't take more than two buckets, share.

We can live without a shower.

But what about cooking or cleaning our utensils?

What about flushing our toilets?

It's become so difficult nowadays, every morning

I just dream about water, she says.

72 year old Luxmi Ramaswami has gone back and forth three times already.

Anything more than this steel urn would be too heavy.

She shows me how she's been storing what's become her prize possession.

So she's been carrying water up in these small vessels

because she's unable to carry the big buckets.

She's rationing. She doesn't know when the water tanker truck will arrive again.

From the elderly to the youngest in the family, everyone pitches in,

collecting every last drop.

It only took 15 minutes to empty out this truck.

Now, back to the filling station to carry out this routine all over again.

Sumnima Udas, CNN New Delhi.

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Yeongcheon High School knows this.

We found their request on yesterday's transcript.

Hello to everyone in Yeongcheon, South Korea.

Jumping over to Wood River Junction, a village in Rhode Island.

It's great to see the Chargers of Chariho High School.

And from Burlington, Kansas we've got the Wildcats.

Burlington High School rounds out our roll.

Okay, space travel, it's not for everyone.

But for those who want a taste of it yet don't see themselves working for NASA,

a private space flight may be on the horizon.

No engineering degree necessary.

The downsides, it's dangerous at least at this point.

You wouldn't have much time before coming back down to Earth,

and you'll need an extra quarter million dollars floating around.

Richards Branson's Virgin Galactic wants to be the world's

first commercial space line.

That is the first company to take regular people into space on a regular basis.

And this is the spaceship they say could do it.

Spaceship two serial two was constructed here

in the Mohave desert in this secretive hangar.

We're really looking forward to getting it into the air where it belongs,

and then eventually into space.

Head back, and we're accelerating.

Dave McKay is Virgin Galactic's chief pilot.

He's been training inside of this simulator hundreds of times,

waiting for a real spacecraft to fly again.

After roll out, we expect in the next couple of months to be in flight test.

Of course, that's hugely significant.

That's because Virgin Galactic has not had a vehicle

since a tragic accident in 2014 left its spaceship in pieces

and killed one test pilot. We're going to learn from what went wrong.

The NTSB ruled the cause of the accident to be human error.

SpaceShipTwo Serial Two was already in development

at the time of the crash. But not nearly ready to serve as a replacement.

When we began this journey, we knew that it would be hard and it has been hard.

The number one thing is that we're going to test fly this vehicle.

We're gonna test fly SpaceShip Two and we're gonna make sure

that we understand what happened.

Virgin Galactic has made several updates to its new and improved spacecraft.

The actual accident itself was caused by a control being moved

when it shouldn't have been done,

and we've implemented a new system which

prevents that ever happening again.

But building a spaceship and adding those new features has taken time.

SpaceShipTwo Serial Two has been under construction

for more than three years. Two, one, release, release, release.

This is how it works, the mother ship White Knight Two

carries the spaceship 50, 000 feet into the air.

Then it separates and blasts off at more than 3 times the speed of sound,

reaching between 50 and 62 miles above earth.

The six passengers on board will experience about six minutes of weightlessness.

And at this point or very shortly,

we're going to allow the customers to unstrap and they can float around.

More than 700 customers have already paid 250, 000 dollars

for a seat when Virgin Galactic eventually starts commercial operation.

It's a sensational experience, of course, but it's more important than that.

It's a first step in opening up space to the wider population of the world.

That last report wasn't to say that only private astronauts

would get to have fun in space.

Aboard the international space station, this happened.

Astronaut Scott Kelly, who's spending almost a year in orbit,

recently received a care package from his twin brother back on Earth.

It contained a gorilla costume. So why not?

This isn't the first time an ape has spent time in space.

But it probably is the first time that one chased other astronauts around.

NASA, the National Aeronautics and Simian Administration.

They're simian to have a ga- really good time up there.

People say space flight can be pretty hairy,

at least they found a spacesuit that, if not breathable,

is still pretty appealing.

I'm Carl Azuz and NASA all the time we have for CNN Student News.