neil armstrong. >> thank you so much. mr. speaker, mr. reid, mr. mcconnell, ms. in this remarkable monument to american history. this room connecting the houses of congress. this room where ideological differences fade in the presence of the overpowering force of pride in what we do and what americans have achieved. it's a privilege to be in this rotunda. high above us just below the windows stretches a frieze with 19 panels depicting important events in american history. the most recent of them, number 19, just above me here, depicts the first successful flight of a man in a powered aircraft. by the brothers wright 108 years ago. the depiction in addition to the craft and the responsible individuals includes an american bald eagle carrying an olive branch. wilbur and orville wright were the 45th recipients of the congressional gold medal and the first for achievements in the world of flight. subsequently, congressional gold medals have been presented nine times for aviation and rocketry achievements. today for the first time, they have been given for achievement

unable to find an immediate answer, neil armstrong undocked. the role continued to build, reaching about one revolution per second. control,g to regain mr. armstrong was forced to fire reentry thrusters and reassert control over the spacecraft. neither crew man experienced loss of orientation. the gemini never approached critical strain. once the reentry thrusters are fired, there is a possibility of fuel leaking. this fuel is essential for reentry. the final action rested squarely on the shoulders of this man, the director. a decision came quickly. fuel readings were too low. abort. that was the first decision. where do we recover? a stream of facts flow into the consul. --ct position, whether weather, available daylight, and to the whereabouts of the uss mason. a destroyer which had practiced picking up a model of the gemini in the pacific. millions of people suddenly learned it existed. --h gemini's to believe stabilized, there were several advantages to delaying reentry. the officer would have an exact reading on the times and the crew could

buzz aldrin, who landed on the moon with neil armstrong in 1969, had just arrived at the south pole as part of a private tour group. but once there, his condition quickly deteriorated, triggering a high-risk rescue mission. here's nbc's tom costello. >> reporter: in a hospital bed in new zealand tonight, a smiling 86-year-old buzz aldrin after a rescue from the bottom of the world. just tuesday he as he joined a luxurious adventure tour. but once there, at 9,000 feet, nearly double the altitude of denver, his condition territoried. a c-130 on skis, like this one, landed to medevac him to a research station, then on to new zealand, where he's described tonight as stable with fluid in his lungs, but responding well to antibiotics. er doctor john torres has flown two rescue missions to the north pole himself. >> it looks like edema, a buil o that happened at high altitude. if that happens, you have to get them down to sea level and on oxygen quickly. >> reporter: in 1969, buzz aldrin landed on the moon in apolo 11, following neil armstrong down the ladder to the lunar surface. >> we were

strachan begins to move closer -- neil armstrong begins moving closer to agena. they are moving at about 17,000 miles per hour. this is the end of the agena. the command pilot makes an approach by using thrust increases. the maximum velocity difference between the two vehicles at docking will be about 1 foot per second. when the command pilot is about two feet from the agena, he will pause until he gets a go. the double check has been completed. >> ok. we are solid, looking good on the ground. go ahead and the doc. >> we will hold off until he gets it. >> go ahead. >> roger. [indiscernible] >> we are docked. >> that was it. two vehicles docked for the first time in space. shortly after docking, the crew is surprised when the spacecraft communicator checks in. >> roger, i read you loud and clear. i have information for you. >> standby. what kind of information? >> if you run into trouble and the control system of the agena goes wild, send in command 400 and take control. copy that? >> we understand. >> it was a routine check. you punch 400 into the computer and th

neil armstrong. a piece of the canvas that was the covering for the wings with him to the moon. he didn't leave it there but he took it as a symbol of their heritage if you will. there is a gratitude for what the wright brothers had done. that's what they were doing. it came from the same section of ohio. southwestern ohio. it is a motor powered aircraft. the first human being as it were. >> what was the competition initially and were they aware of it? >> guest: the competition was it?guest co. the competition was comparatively modest up until then. they were aware of it and they were way ahead of the competition because by studying soaring birds they figured out a solution to the problem and the fact when they eventually went to france to demonstrate what they had achieved, the great french aviator is all said we are but children compared to them. they are so far ahead of us it is almost heartbreaking but they also felt an immense respect for what they had achieved. >> next call for mccullough comes from steven in quincy illinois. >> i'm honored to be able to ask david mccullou

strong made model airplanes -- neil armstrong made model airplanes. mine would confuse me a little bit. my solution was to wind the rubber band a little bit more. neil build a wind tunnel -- built a wind tunnel. got into it step-by-step. . went to west point my father and my brother and uncle had all gone there.

. >> buzz al dren who landed in the moon with neil armstrong in 1969. la toya stillman's >> a smiling 86-year-old buzz aldrin after a rescue from the bottom of the world. just tuesday he tweeted, south pole here i come as he joined a luxury adventure tour. but once there at 9,000 feet double the altitude of denver his condition began to deteriorate. the area. >> looks like high amount attitude pulmonary edema. you have to get them down to sea level and on oxygen. it is a life threatening condition. >> in 1469, buzz al drit drin followed neil armstrong down ladder. the anima lightyear was created in his honor. >> he is a force there's no question about that. >> and you see him smiling there. tonight nasa says they have been in twuch the new zealand doctors and they say he is doing well. >> i'm floating around with buzz aldrin, it's amazing. >> i did not. >> i heard those are kind of hard. >> after they learned they didn't own their backyard -- >> the bid they might have to make and made a startling discovery up next. >> and giving away the secret of thos

decades ago he felt slighted because neil armstrong got all the glory. because of toy story there is a about who neil armstrong is but buzz light year. we're going to take a look at what is going on outside. >> kelly: it is a little bit chillily. extra hold hair spray or pony tail holder today ladies. gusty winds out there. here is what we saw yesterda afternoon hours. winds were light yesterday but they increased during the overnight hours. temperatures right now are above normal. summerlin 44. cloudsover night keeping things warmer. paradise 25 miles per hour and stronger gusts are expected outside of the las vegas valley. you see all this area shaded in through 10:00. you are looking at winds gusting to 50 and we have light precipitation further you are down to our south and parts of arizona they are seeing mountain snow showers. 54 is our expected high today. mostly sunny skies. windy conditions gusts to 35. tonight looking at 37 for the low. breezy conditions, gusts to 25. our seven-day forecast showing breezy conditions lasting into tomorrow mornin

you know, neil armstrong born in 1930. buzz aldrin, 1930. mike collins, 1930. you don't call that lucky. we were there at the right time. and so on. i've been very lucky. >> jeff, blue origin, what's the -- where did that name come from? >> blue origin is, sernlgt blue planet and it's a great place to be from. >> and is that a foreprofit or not for profit company? >> it's for profit. well, it's not yet. i mean, that's -- that's an intention for the glorious future. it's in what we call investment mode right now. but, yeah. i think it can be a profitable company. i think it will take a long time. i did not go -- i did not make a big list of all the business arenas i might enter and pick and force rank them and pick the one i thought would have the highest return on invested capital. i'm doing this because i care about it, because i think it's important. but i do think it can be a self sustaining profitable business one day. >> do you think could be the greater legacy than even amazon? >> well, if you're talking about professional, what do you want on your tombst

small fuss before the flight and a large one after about who went first, but it seemed to me that neil armstrong should have gone first. he was a commander and that seemed more appropriate to me in a more normal sequence of events. i'm glad he did. neil was amazing. at that time, there were 30 of us in the astronaut office in houston. of the 30, there was one there and 29 there in terms of test piloting experience. that was what we considered the single most important yardstick. as a test pilot for nasa, he was almost in a class by himself. about personality wise, he didn't get out in front of himself and solve the program but i think from a personality point, he was a superb choice. i think if you considered the positions on the crew and hierarchy to sort of person he ones. -- the worth of the men come the personality, the sort of person he was, it was a wonderful choice. >> getting off the earth you , don't know if it's going to work. then getting into the moon's orbit, you don't know if that is going to work. then having the lunar module go down, which was the most dangerous? michael collins:

neil armstrong's famous words had he stepped on the moon or were they? how much money the constant roar of airplanes ahead some local towns may be a small step closer to getting relief. they are teaming up with m.i.t. they plan to look at possible changes that include the height planes fly over time sending more flights over the ocean and changing the frequency of flights. congressman stephen lynch promised to bring the f.a.a. to court if the plan isn't effective. >> that class action suit will be joined by a lot of my colleagues in the house we will undo this whole system. >> massport and the f.a.a. did not give a specific timeline to when the study will be published but they anticipate within a year. >>> people in several communities say new hampshire and vermont may have heard loud noise from above today it was likely for fighter jets. the last day of high-flying training in the area. >>> that's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind, one of the famous lines ever heard but is it accurate? for years astronaut neil armstrong argued he was mi

it seemed neil armstrong should have gone first. he was the commander. that seemed more appropriate to me and a more normal sequence of events. i am glad he did. i think neil was an amazing fellow. he -- at that time, there were 30 of us in the astronaut office in houston. of the 30, there was one here and 29 there in terms of test piloting experience. and that was what we considered the single most important yardstick, if you will. so neil, because of his experience at edwards as a test pilot for nasa and nsa, he was almost in a class by himself. and also i thought, personality was. people will argue with that, say he was too reticent. you did not get out and sell the program. from a personality point, i think he was a superb choice. i would not want, i could get it for you, a wholesale pr man trying to sell. that would have been dreadful. if you consider the positions on the crew, hierarchy, the worth of the man, the personality, i think it was a wonderful choice. mr. rubenstein: on that flight, you could say there are 4 complicated parts. getting off t

gemini eight lasted off with asterisk neil armstrong and david scott on board. it was the sixth command mission of the gemini program and one of its objectives was to rendezvous and dock with the regina spacecraft. this is a 25 minute nasa film telling the story of the docking with another craft in space and equipment failures that caused the gemini capsule to violently tumble in space. the astronauts were a force -- were forced to return to earth 10 hours after blastoff. ignition, lift off. lift off. fuel pressure little high. >> how is it looking question mark >> it is looking good. low, no problem. staging. how does that thrust look? >> that thrust is looking a little high. >> status check, booster. >> go, guidance. go. >> how do you stand, guidance? >> capcom, we are go. shutdown. >> roger. >> standing by. >> over 300 feet or second. >> 72 95. >> we are a no go. capcom, we are a no go. no go. retro, you have a time here? plus 20. >> we will be retro firing in nine plus 20. >> retro flight. >> give me some access times in that area. >> no swells and your call

she had been a neil armstrong's one smallch have said step for women, she said no. he said does the suit made me look fat? [laughter] maybe that's why she was not picked. >> jeff, you have built one of the greatest technology companies in the world. yet capen -- you have taken a company that was nothing to amazon. what that harder to do than try to get a space company off the ground? challenges.ifferent , i of the things that i find think back on the last 20 years, you have to remember that 20 years ago, i was driving packages to the post office myself and my 1987 chevy blazer. for me that one day i might be able to afford a forklift. that was 1995. 21 years later, the internet is the gigantic thing and there are many successful companies and onto roman numeral -- entrepreneurial dynamism is incredible. , i would tollenge put the village and if a structure in place so that the next generation can have a dynamic explosion of ideas and inventions and space like we have had with the internet. the reason we can't do that today is because there is too much heavy lifting

. >> >> a lot of people think of neil armstrong but that is not neil armstrong because as you heard earlier he set the camera down so neil armstrong took a teacher so towelette real? >> around hollywood they have get-togethers every so often other producers in movies in the thought it would have particular pitchers asking people what makes them so unique as the picture we get to this picture in the say what "this is it" that made that pitcher so unique? location and location and location. [laughter] and actually he took a couple of pictures of the men. >> the most important. you can see it but it is a boot to print. it is so unusual the dustup there you put your foot down and it made their perfect boot printed is very unusual so why did it before and after and it still looked lonely so i put my foot down and moved it over just a little bit so you could see it wasn't a visitor where somebody else it was us with the boot. >> actually his son said it isn't fair to take thousands of photos. you literally have taken three photographs your entire life. [laughter] and you took that one? so once yo

strong made model airplanes -- neil armstrong made model airplanes. mine would confuse me a little bit. my solution was to wind the rubber band a little bit more. neil build a wind tunnel -- built a wind tunnel. got into it step-by-step. . went to west point my father and my brother and uncle had all gone there. fundamentally, i went there because of the free education. then add a choice of army or air force. my uncle was army chief of staff and i was like, nepotism. snuck off to the air force. the choice was ply or don't lie. so fly. ones?es are little big ones are better. fly the same ones over and over or the new ones? i wanted to defy the new ones. i was a test i would and nasa was looking for test pilots. >> when you finally got selected, did you ask, how did i get there or how did they get there? >> back up a bit. before there was a space program, the bureaucrats or whatever, the scientists, they all got together and try to figure out who did they want to hire? what kind of people? some of the proposals were bizarre. climbers who cannot breathe

and we've met buzz aldrin, neil armstrong, john glenn, scott carpenter, pete conrad used to come here. owen garriott back from the early period, john young and the first crew for the first space shuttle mission. eileen collins has been here and pam melbourne, the two commanders of the shuttle mission. and again in may, we had astronauts who had just returned from the international space station. so whenever they come to washington, they like to come here too. many of them spent hours here when they were children. and they say that this museum was partly responsible for their love of aviation and their passion to become astronauts. >> let me just make the point, for those of you listening on c-span radio, of course watching on c-span3's american history tv, we are live at the national air and space museum in washington, d.c. our next caller is john joining us from new hampshire with valerie neal. go ahead, please. >> good evening. i just want to ask if you're going to show the uss enter price during the program? i know other people involved in the restoration. and i've been looking for

because i could hear about neil armstrong's african-american.'ve got a lot of great friends, a lot of great family but my dad was in vietnam when neil armstrong put his first step on the moon. now he looks up and sees drones or the moon and we need to think that what story are we telling to the world. what does memorial day mean to me? i will end and then asked three people to come up and help me. made before. it means accountability it means responsibility or it means fundamentally i think two is our commander-in-chief. not just our military's commander-in-chief, our commander-in-chief. i don't say that just because we are six months out from presidential election but when you go to a cemetery and you are visiting kia, killed in action from iraq or afghanistan i encourage people out in colorado and utah where i was on the tour before now to just wander around a bit, and it's amazing the number of other kia or other veterans you see from korea, from world war ii, from world war i, even from the civil war which is another war that we don't have a

who will play neil armstrong? who would play neil armstrong how cute. >> ellen pompeo gave birth to that child, actress and that is her husband, chris ivory, posted that picture. they name the baby eli christopher. ellen captured the pick, eli christopher. well, why wouldn't you that is the name of the kid. chris ivory just fell a notch, i have got a new guy. >> ahh. >> this is a third child for these two, they are already parents of daughters, stella luna and siena may. >> so cute. >> they are going to be so busy. that baby, is a sweater, looks kind of big for a new born. so cute. >> yeah. >> is that her. >> there she is. >> beautiful. >>> i know why she said something, she's an emoji and that caused controversy. >> that is right. >> well... >> that is an interesting topic. you weren't here. did you see that one. >> no. >> do you see how fast this gets annoying. >> really that fast. >> yeah. >> first man to step foot on the moon neil armstrong, so they will make a movie about this. who would you, oh, well, there

featuring gold medal award ceremonies, first an award ceremony honoring astronauts john glenn, neil armstrong, michael collins, and buzz aldrin. in an hour, a 1963 nasa film biography of john glenn, the first american to orbit the earth. [ applause ] >> ladies and gentlemen, the chairman of the united states house of representatives

neil armstrong had command of the craft during the final descent to landing. both of them were standing. they were fully suited in their space suit and they pretty much filled that interior volume in that position with those space suits on. it was not really designed for comfort. it was designed for the purpose of landing, giving the crew an exit so they could spend a couple of hours on the surface of the moon and then launching again along with their precious cargo of lunar soil and rocks to bring back home to demonstrate that they had been there and to have those materials for scientists to begin analyzing and better understand the moon. it's also amazing to think that the computing power required in that day to send these craft to the moon and program them for the descent and launch, was done with fairly primitive computer programs and memory was min xul compared to memory now and it's often said the computing power we hold in our hands every day with our smartphones is vastly more than it took to send people to the moon and back. it gives you a sense of th

about two minutes ago, neil armstrong called in over to manner reed and he was able to confirm at that time that radar lock had been established. >> roger, do you have solid radar lock on with the aegeania? over. >> we have radar lock. >> roger, thank you. sounds good. >> 158 mile range in elevation of about four degrees. >> after radar lock on, the crew will circularize the orbit inside that of the target vehicle. meantime, the ground does not sit still, idly waiting for something to happen. recovery forces are constantly shifting in response to the orbit of the spacecraft, changing station according to a detailed recovery plan. the uss cochran, a destroyer in the midpacific, takes position for a 4-4 recovery that is recovery in the fourth revolution in zone four. zone three will be the planned landing zone for the next three revolutions, for five, six and seven. after that, gemini 8 will not be over a planned landing area again until the tenth revolution and then passes over the eastern atlantic zone. if an emergency occurs in the eighth or ninth revolution, the spacecraft will land

buzz aldrin, who landed on the moon with neil armstrong in 1969, had just arrived group. but once there, his condition quickly deteriorated, triggering a high-risk rescue mission. here's nbc's tom costello. >> reporter: in a hospital bed in new zealand tonight, a smiling 86-year-old buzz aldrin after a rescue from the bottom of the world. just tuesday he tweeted, south pole here i come. as he joined a luxury adventure tour. but once there, at 9,000 feet, nearly double the altitude of nv deteriorated. a c-130 on skis, like this one, landed to medevac him to a u.s. research station, then on to new zealand, where he's described tonight as stable with fluid in his lungs, but responding well to antibiotics. er doctor john torres has flown two rescue missions to the north -- south pole himself. >> it looks like edema, a build-up of fluid in the lungs that happened at high altitude. if that happens, you have to get them down to sea level and on oxygen quickly. life-threatening condition. >> beautiful, beautiful. >> reporter: in 1969, buzz aldrin landed on the moon in apollo 11,

astronauts will be on hand for today's grand opening, including buzz aldrin, and the children of neil armstrong and neil shephard. the ceremony begins at ten a-m. and... nasa is getting ready for another rocket launch today. but it won't be leaving from the space coast. an atlas five rocket is taking off from the vandenberg air force base out in california. it's carrying a worldview-4 satellite , which will help this launch was actually suppose to take off back in september. it was delayed several times because of technical problems and wildfires near the base. it should take off around 1-30 this afternoon. and ?another atlas five rocket is set to take off from cape canaveral on november 19th. a walk in the park... turned into an amazing opportunity for one mother in new york. after the break: her chance meeting... with the woman she voted for! plus: the music world is mourning... the passing of a poet. up next: everything you need to know about life, you can learn from granola. keep it simple. make every piece count. let other people know what you're made of. always be real. don't be fake, don

but my dad was in vietnam when neil armstrong, you know, put his first step on the moon. now they look up and sees drones or hears drones and sees the moon, and we just need to think about what story are we telling to the world? what does memorial day mean to me, and then i'll end here and ask three people to come up and help me, maybe four. it means accountability, it means responsibility. it means fundamentally, i think, who is our commander in chief. not just our military's commander in chief. but our commander in chief. and i don't say that just because we're six months out from a presidential election. but when you go to a cemetery and you, you're visiting kia, killed in action from iraq or afghanistan, i encourage people out in colorado and utah where i was on the tour before now to just wander around a bit. and it's amazing the number of other kia or other veterans you'll see from korea, from world war ii, from world war i, even from the civil war which is another war that we don't have a memorial for, actually, on the mall. you know the only other one we don't? wo

at the peak of the apollo program when neil armstrong stepped out on to the surface of the moon, thatd of the peak of the interest that the american public had. buildings like this do a lot to sustain that level of interest. and that's one of the things that i think is very important about this beautiful surrounding, the national air and space museum, which is a vital part of the smithsonian institution. [ applause ] >> the museum general collins built, like the ship he flew to the moon, a priceless treasure to the people of the world. and i'm honored to follow in his footsteps as director. as he mentioned, there was tension about whether the signal from mars would come in time to cut the ribbon. just in case, the president of the united states was on hand with a pair of scissors as a backup. but viking performed flawlessly. just days later, the viking i lander became the first american spacecraft to land on mars. in 1984, after its mission was complete, nasa formally transferred the ownership of viking i lander to the museum. of course we haven't been able to collect it yet. so nasa,

at the peak of the apollo program when neil armstrong stepped out on to the surface of the moon, thatd of the peak of the interest that the american public had. buildings like this do a lot to sustain that level of interest. and that's one of the things that i think is very important about this beautiful surrounding, the national air and space museum, which is a vital part of the smithsonian institution. [ applause ] >> the museum general collins built, like the ship he flew to the moon, a priceless treasure to the people of the world. and i'm honored to follow in his footsteps as director. as he mentioned, there was tension about whether the signal from mars would come in time to cut the ribbon. just in case, the president of the united states was on hand with a pair of scissors as a backup. but viking performed flawlessly. just days later, the viking i lander became the first american spacecraft to land on mars. in 1984, after its mission was complete, nasa formally transferred the ownership of viking i lander to the museum. of course we haven't been able to collect it yet. so nasa,

and we've met buzz aldrin, neil armstrong, john glenn, scott carpenter, pete conrad used to come here. owen garriott back from the early period, john young and the first crew for the first space shuttle mission. eileen collins has been here and pam melbourne, the two commanders of the shuttle mission. and again in may, we had astronauts who had just returned from the international space station. so whenever they come to washington, they like to come here too. many of them spent hours here when they were children. and they say that this museum was partly responsible for their love of aviation and their passion to become astronauts. >> let me just make the point, for those of you listening on c-span radio, of course watching on c-span3's american history tv, we are live at the national air and space museum in washington, d.c. our next caller is john joining us from new hampshire with valerie neal. go ahead, please. >> good evening. i just want to ask if you're going to show -- during the program. i know other people involved in the restoration. and i've been looking forward to seeing it

things we had recently was a kick starter success program where we got funding to redo not only neil armstrong'sso allen shepard's. >> let's talk numbers. let's get the numbers on the screen again,. we're here in general jack dailey, here inside the national air and space museum, the most popular museum part of the smithsonian in washington, d.c. and a busy weekend with the july 4th holiday. let's talk about your numbers. how many people work here? what is your operating budget? >> we have 242 -- they are what we call the explainers. they are college and high school students who work here and are funded by general electric aviation. but the important thing is we have 650 volunteers. and they really are the ones that make this place operate. it's a -- actually, it's a fantastic experience to just -- their enthusiasm and their knowledge that they bring to this place is really the key to our sec cess. the numbers we work on are about 32 million a year in operational costs. and we raise about half of that ourselves. that's half that we get for the federal government pays for the federal employees' s

my uncle almost died there, my dad was there, again, when neil armstrong landed on the moon. i do make connections with that in my book. i think when richard holbrooke was criticized for bringing up his iraq -- or his vietnam experience in this debate, i think that was unfortunate and unfair. to the question of what we didn't know, we didn't know a lot. and i didn't know a lot. so i'm not here to just point fingers at my government that i worked for and that overall supported me in my role and could have fired me a number of times for legitimate reasons. i think we were naive, and i think i have to go back to 9/11. we were a fearful nation. and when you're afraid, watch out. and my fear is, my real fear is that we continue to be a fearful nation. what was it that fdr said? it's the most beautiful way of talking about fear. instead, i think fear can become that virus that makes us sort of do things that we ordinarily wouldn't. i go back to what happened on 9/11. we were at the height of our power. economically, there was no such thing as an overstretched military empire. and o

sculpture man began to explore time and , and two months after we did -- dedicated it in 1969, neil armstrong walked on the moon. [laughter] of silly. lyndon was the president in office when the national endowment for the arts and humanities or created. congress approved the initial funding, but they were very new and making new ground all the time. the art in public places program had been started by a three person committee at the endowment. what they wanted to do was make it possible for american cities to commission an original work of art for that city. the seed, this is money, we will give you $45,000 and you have to match it. and anything else you need. i was active with the art museum at that time, and they had an exhibit of american te deum sculpture. the man who was responsible for curating the collection was henry gill zeller. he worked at the metropolitan museum in new york, and that asked them to come to grand rapids to lecture. when he came, i picked them up and brought him for a tour of the city. we were in the middle of urban renewal at the time, and this place was a hole in t

found graffiti inside where he had written on the side of it and so had becaubuzz aldrin and neil armstrong. but the first time it was ever recorded so he talked about it and the experiences that he had. but this is from "apollo" 11. this was the base camp, so to speak, for the folks that went to the moon. >> what's amazing is how small it is. >> yes, for three people. >> cramped quarters. >> yes. fortunately, they weren't gone that long and two of them were out on vacation for part of the trip. >> do you have a favorite exhibit? a favorite spot here at the museum? >> well, i do, yes. we have an airplane down in the gallery called the boeing f-4 b-4. and my father flew that exact airplane the year i was born so it has special meaning to me. >> we are inside the national air and space museum. we'll get to your phone calls. peter is joining us from california. peter, good evening. peter, are you there? we can't hear the call from peter. >> caller: hello? >> go ahead, peter we can hear you. >> caller: i wanted to know if the museum would introduce any articles from the nuclear rocket propulsio

neil armstrong had command of the craft during the final descent to landing. both of them were standing. they were fully suited in their space suit and they pretty much filled that interior volume in that position with those space suits on. it was not really designed for comfort. it was designed for the purpose of landing, giving the crew an exit so they could spend a couple of hours on the surface of the moon and then launching again along with their precious cargo of lunar soil and rocks to bring back home to demonstrate that they had been there and to have those materials for scientists to begin analyzing and better understand the moon. it's also amazing to think that the computing power required in that day to send these craft to the moon and program them for the descent and launch, was done with fairly primitive computer programs and memory was minuscule compared to the memory we have now. it's often said that the computing power we hold in our hands every day with our smartphones is vastly more than it took to send people to the moon and back. it gives y

it had two windows, neil armstrong had command of the craft during the final descent to landing. both of them were standing. they were fully suited in their space suit. and they pretty much filled that interior volume in that position with those space suits on. it was not really designed for comfort. it was designed for the purpose of landing, giving the crew an exit so they could spend a couple of hours on the surface of the moon, and then launching again along with their precious cargo of lunar soil and rock to bring back home to demonstrate that they had been there and to have those materials for scientists to begin analyzing to better understand the moon. it's also amazing to think that the computing power required in that day to send these craft to the moon and to program them for the descent and the launch was done with fairly primitive computer programs and memory was minuscule compared to the memory we are now. and it's often said that the computing power we hold in our hands every day with our smartphones is vastly more than it took to send people to the moon and back. i

famous people who fought in korea in the fighter jets, including a of the original astronauts like neil armstrong, buzz aldrin, john glenn, and the baseball hall of famer ted williams. you have all of the amazing men who were known and unknown to the families who fought in this new way of fighting. this is actually my favorite portion of the exhibit. we really highlight jesse brown. he was from mississippi and one of the first african-americans to join the united states navy, as well as the first pilot. he struggled when he joined the pilot program. they did not want him. to be in the navy, you have to pass a swim test. they kept trying to say he cannot swim. he basically outlasted them. he goes to korea, and december of 1950 his plane is shot down. he dies of exposure. one of the men who was with him won the honor for trying to rescue him. his body remains in north korea, worked his tried that work has been made to try to recover it for the family. this painting is from a photograph. it really does highlight not only his story about how important korea is in race relations, harry s truman really

aldrin became the second man to walk on the moon alongside neil armstrong. >>> an arm bank robbery turned into a life hostage situation. the showdown dragged on for hours. dangerous gunmen. nbc's ja kosh rascone has a harrowing story. >> reporter: they were hostages, now survivors. >> i was little skampltd i thought it was a degree. but it was so real, it was real. >> reporter: it was around:00 when the alleged gunman walked into the bank with a dog and a handgun and demanded money. >> but when he shot up in the air, then i knew existence. >> reporter: initial reports indicated someone had been shot. >> you'll units responding to district 24, gunshot wound. >> reporter: that turned out not to be true, humphrey told negotiators, he would start shooting if his demands were not met. >> he was putting the shut gun at the back of some head. >> reporter: they negotiated two hostages, two minutes later they >> at that point they made entry into the bank. >> they used a battering ram, putting thems between the suspect and hostages, surrounded, humphries surrendered. family overjoyed as the hostag

neil armstrong had command of the craft during the final descent to landing. both of them were standing. they were fully suited in their space suit and they pretty much filled that interior volume in that position with those space suits on. it was not really designed for comfort. it was designed for the purpose of landing, giving the crew an exit so they could spend a couple of hours on the surface of the moon and then launching again along with their precious cargo of lunar soil and rocks to bring back home to demonstrate that they had been there and to have those materials for scientists to begin analyzing to better understand the moon. it's also amazing to think that the computing power required in that day to send these craft to the moon and to program them for the descent and launch, was done with fairly primitive computer programs and memory was minuscule compared to the memory we have now. it's often said that the computing power we hold in our hands every day with our smartphones is vastly more than it took to send people to the moon and back. it gives

. >> believe it or not neil armstrong had a child with this affliction. and in the last 63 years nothing has changed for this cancer, nothing. >> she was given six to ninth months to live. today the tumor is half its size. >>> this is a contrast from this week. not everybody is expecting wet weather. mainly in the north bay. for san francisco, east bay and also south bay, some of those skies and low 50s. you can see at 9:00 in the morning, a few showers. then it starts to pick up by 11:30 in the morning. this is your best bet for moderate and possibly heavier rainfalls. around 3:00 in the afternoon. this will move to the santa clara valley. there may be a few lingering showers at santa clara hill and then it will clear out. how much rainfall will we get with these two smaller systems on sunday and monday? let's get a look at this. it's going to be decent up to the north bay, but you go from san jose, santa rosa, that's where it could be up to .21. up near santa rosa and napa is where we will get closer to a half-inch. the accumulating rainfall will be in