Nightly News   |  February 07, 2011

Giffords' husband trains for launch

Astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, is back at the Space Center in Houston training for an April shuttle flight. NBC's Brian Williams reports.

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BRIAN WILLIAMS, anchor: round. And NASA today released some video of Mark Kelly , husband of Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords , training for his upcoming shuttle mission to space. As we reported here last week, he decided to return to his day job, return to space in a few weeks on the shuttle, while his wife continues her recovery from the attack in Tucson .