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call or click to learn more. [ male announcer ] if you can't afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. >>> our "instant index" tonight starting with an amazing postcard from space right at the moment the movie "gravity" hits the box office stratosphere. today nasa astronaut karen nye berg who taught us how to wash our hair in zero gravity gave a new demonstration, how little it takes, a tiny tap at the right angle to send you spinning in space. so tiny, she takes one strand of her hair, taps it against the handrail and watch, the result, the slow motion ballet, just as good as hollywood magic. >>> a tiny town with a solution to the winters spend in the mountains of norway. they live in constant shadow and for centuries no sunlight from september through march. tonight a breakthrough. those helicopters are installing three giant mirrors on the top of the mountains. the mirrors will reflect the sun down into the town below. computers on the ground tweak the angle of the mirrors as the sun moves across the sky. the mayor says he's doing it for all of the -- quote -- small

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if you can't afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. >>> finally tonight here the movie everyone is talking about, "gravity," one person who knows it, he's been up there, one of the real life heroes who helped inspire the movie. our person of the week. the new movie "gravity" about to pull us back into a world beyond us, that hopeless breaking through boundaries and the fear of what's possible, too. sandra bullock is playing an astronaut attached to that arm that comes loose from the shuttle. her fellow astronaut played by george clooney, and what follows is a harrowing fictional tale, but what so many real life astronauts have prepared for. including this team, may 2009, the shuttle atlantis headed to repair the hubble telescope. the same telescope they travel to in the movie. in real life, one of the astronauts, michael massimino. good to see you, mass. >> great to see you. >> who saw the movie and saw himself in it. >> even my tools, we had a cutter tool to cut a wire inside one of the instruments, it's floating behind sandra bullock's head. i said, there's my wire cu

if you can't afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. >>> and finally tonight, the boxer and the fight of his life. this weekend, orlando cruz becomes the first openly gay boxer with a real chance to win the world title. but he also hopes to achieve much more. abc's linsey davis and a beloved producer at abc news, michael scott, bring you the boxer who is "america strong." >> reporter: as a boxer, he's fearless. but it's what he's been wrestling with that's proved the toughest fight of his life. >> it's my moment right now. it's my time. >> reporter: now training for saturday's world featherweight championship fight, 32-year-old orlando cruz says for years he's battled a fear far more threatening than any opponent. [ speaking in another language ] >> reporter: i'm in a sport that's very macho. he says. sometimes in the ring people would shout gay slurs at me before i came out. after the fight, i would cry with my mom. but last october, he didn't pull any punches. announcing to the world that he's gay. telling "usa today" i have and will always be a proud puerto rican. i h

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