jim armstrong of our boston station wbz reports. >> worst experience of my life. i will never fly delta again. >> reporter: this early evening collision shaking up passengers on two different flights, one a huge 767 bound for amsterdam and the smaller commuter plane headed to raleigh-durham, north carolina. >> we were on our way from washington to raleigh, and taxiing to take off and the plane clipped our plane. >> reporter: how did everybody on board handle it? >> fine, calm, uneventful. >> it was a nonevent until we figured out that we'd lost the wing and our flight, to amsterdam. >> reporter: passengers on both planes described hearing a loud bang and then feeling a bump, some saying it was almost as if they'd hit a pothole on the runway. >> it was a really big shock. just a really big shock. >> there was a lot of texting, no, there was no screaming. there was some cursing. >> some people were freaking out but everybody was pretty calm overall. >> reporter: when you say freaking out, tell us. >> the girl next to me, she was right by the wing and crying and the

program had once been piloted by men who were international superstars, names like john glenn, neil armstrong, jim lovell. >> houston, we have a problem. >> apparently they even existed in real life, too. i sat down with apollo 13's jim lovell, a true american hero, who would never give up without a fight. this conversation wasn't going to be easy. >> i'm just going to stop that music. right. it's going to make this more difficult. so, jim, listen, it's over. >> i never say that. it is much easier if we just said, why don't we let someone else do it. i'll give you an example. india is looking at the advantages of space. >> so we're going to outsource our hopes and dreams to india. >> we might. but is that the modus operandi of the united states? no. the new generation should get the same experience that the old generation got. we orbited the moon for the very first time. we saw the earth as it really is, just a small blue and white body tucked away in the vastness of space. i could put up my thumb and completely hide everything that i've ever known. that photograph tells in just one picture really

that is why i want to congratulate area on a huffington and jim armstrong. thank you. -- adriana huffington and -- arianna huffington and tim are strong. -- armstrong. >> but we will begin with questions that were given to us over the internet or from our audience here today. the first question is, and you can decide among yourselves because many of these are for both of you, or related to the murdoch scandal. i think this question stands alone without that. how does the government post and the entire a l l media landscape draw the line between the interests of the public and the public interest? >> the interest of the public -- i suppose what the question means is that it -- is the fact that the public is highbrow and lowbrow we are finding the public wants to hear about lindsay lawn and charlie sheen, which we have concluded are not in the public interest, but they are in danger with the public. that is human nature. in fact, we discovered when we made a deal with facebook that would make it possible for our readers to be able to see what their friends wer

he and other apollo astronauts, neil armstrong and jim recently wrote that america's space program is falling in substantial disarray with no clear cut mission. >> there's no objective. there's no timetable. there's no goal and there's no mission. >> but garrett sees hope for space travel's future in private city. so the former astronaut quit nasa to help a california company design the shuttle successor. >> promises of science fiction of the 1960s and 50s of taking vacations on mars. we can get there if this works out. that's what is so exciting. >> most employees will have a much harder time finding work. this year at the johnson space center alone, 1100 jobs will disappear. mark, cbs news, houston. >>> let's check in with erica martin. >> it's looking cooler. as we take a look outside, we can't see much. the moon is 72%. we are seeing some clouds making their way into the forecast region, certainly some fog as well for much of the forecast region. here's a look at our satellite image. that is certainly a thing of the past. we have an on shore delta flow that is starting to kick up.

he and other legendary apollo astronauts, neil armstrong and jim wrote that america's space program is falling in disarray with no clear cut mission. >> there's no objective. there's no timetable. there's no goal and there's no mission. >> but garrett sees hope for space travel's future. so this former astronaut quit nasa to help a california company design the shuttle successor. >> promises of science fiction of the 1960s and 50s of taking vacations on mars, we can get there. that's what is so exciting about it. >> most employees will have a much harder time finding work. this year at the johnson space center alone, 1100 jobs will disappear. mark, cbs news, houston. >> it wasn't the kind of stage show rihanna fans were expecting in dallas last night. looking at video shot at the american airlines center. the fire appears to be started by pyrotechnicks that were started by the show. >>> erica martin with our weekend weather forecast, a sweater. a will the of people around the bay area need to bundle up. >> we also have chances of drizzle as well and due to the low pressure system worki

his warning, astronauts like the man who commanded the first space shuttle mission and neil armstrong and jim fame. today the countdown clock started for the last space shuttle mission, sts-135. "atlantis" is the last shuttle to make the ride into orbit on friday. the reason they were selected was not to fly in mission. they were selected for this trip after only initially training to go up if the crew of the previous shuttle, sts-134 needed a space rescue. 134 was the last trip. these guys were the space tow truck drivers if they were needed. even though 134 didn't need rescuing, earlier this year nasa decided to send them up anyway. now what happens if these astronauts need to be rescued? there's nobody coming after them. there's no tow truck anymore. they'd have to come home in a russian sousz capsule. the four-person team may catch rides home as they're available, meaning one of the four astronauts, the pilot, might not get to come home for about a year. if something goes wrong that's the plan. three of the four hitch rides with the russians and one guy stays in space for a year

from kneel armstrong, jim lavel and jim certainen. flight program is in substantial disarray with no clear-cut mission in the offing. is that true and if it's true is it a bad thing? >> great american heros, appreciate their contribution, it's just not true. they don't recognize what it is that we are doing for the future of this program. >> for those of our viewers who are not space geeks and maybe not following what's going on, the simple question, what's the next big thing we're going to see from nasa? >> nasa is building, has built the space station, we are going to be seeing more and more research coming out of the space station, more and more astronauts go to aed and from space. nasa is part of the commercial program, a nasa logo and american flag on the vehicles just as america flies airplanes. we have been launching satellites in this way on vehicles right here from the cape and we buy the service to launch. >> do it this way, what's the thing that's going to get the kids watching this launch today to say i want to be an astro

jim axelrod has their story. >> they've got the flag up now. you can see the stars and stripes. >> reporter: when neil armstrong and buzz aldrin planted the firstthe moon, it was an act of pure symbolism. a united nations treaty would not allow the u.s. or any other country to claim the moon as its territory. >> this is a very schematic diaorama of what the apollo 11 site would have looked like. >> smithsonian curator allan needell said the flags planted by all the apollo missions that landed on the moon were goodwill gestures to the world. >> by and large the symbol was very much understood for what it was. as a symbol of pride. but also a symbol of humanitarian accomplishment. >> reporter: but, as tom moser knows, it was also a politically sensitive symbol. an engineer on the nasa team that designed the first flag to go to the moon, moser was told to keep it hush-hush. >> it was not a military, department of defense secret. it was just politically, we didn't want the word out before the event happened. >> reporter: but what happened to them? is a question university of california santa barbara librarian annie platoff has been trying to answer

jim axelrod to find out. >> they've got the flag up now and you can see the stars and stripes. >> reporter: when neil armstrongin planted the first flag on the moon, it was an act of pure symbolism. a united nations treaty would not allow the u.s. or any other country to claim the moon as its territory. >> this is a very schematic diorama of what the apalo 11 site would have looked like. >> reporter: the smithsonian curator says the flags planted by all the crews of the apollo missions that landed on the moon were goo will gestures to the world. >> by and large the symbol was very much understood for what it was, a symbol of pride but also a symbol of humanitarian accomplishment. >> reporter: but, as tom moser knows, it was also a politically sensitive symbol. an engineer on the nasa team that designed the first floog go to the moon, moser was told to keep it hush-hush. >> it was not a military department of defense secret, it was just politically we didn't want the word out before the event happened. >> reporter: from the beginning there were technical problems. the apollo 11 astronauts had difficulty getting