for the apollo like program. they sent some unmanned ones up and they had the terrible fire on apollo 1. these guys made it happen. we had many legends on, but this is one of the greatest. let's hear it for walt cunningham. [applause] >> that is a pretty good welcome. >> i keep hearing i'm going to call him glenn cunningham, the old quarterback. i'm terrible with names. this is a great story. i want you to explain it. evidently, number 13 and 14 had a lot to do with your career. talk about it. >> well, actually, like a lot of people, you learn things later that you did not know whether it was critical. but it must have been about 10 years ago, i get an e-mail from a friend of mine, paul haney, head of public affairs when nasa selected me in 1963. how many here were alive in 1963? a few of you. 1 -- [laughter] but i met all haney. he was the only person i knew with nasa. after i left nasa, i wrote a book called the all-american boys. a lot of people have that book. and paul was a friend of mine. i gave paul a copy

before charlie was famous for apollo 16, he was famous for apollo 11. and you won't know his face, but you'll know his voice. when those guys are running long and the fuel was running out charlie was the capcom. he was the guy communicating from nasa control center to buzz. so i guess nobody better to take us through those tense minutes than charlie. talk about 11. and remember, take us back. >> before i do that, first, jim, good to be back with you in the explorers club. it's always a pleasure to be invited to have the opportunity to speak to the members and the public. and so thank you for coming. and i hope you enjoy our 45 minutes, an hour, or whatever we have here together. so i was very privileged to work on apollo 11 and mission control. the team that was on apollo 10 that did the lunar activation and checkout, of which i was the capcom, we just sort of moved over to apollo 11 for that same phase. and the only additional thing was going to be the landing. apollo 10 went through the descent, didn't land. came back up, aborted. then rendezvoused. w

apollo 1, the fire. where were you?t is just like the challenger for us. >> challenger is probably much more memorable. challenger and columbia. both terrible disasters. but back in that timeframe -- and that was in 1967 -- in 1966, don eisley and i were assigned to the crew of what would be apollo 2. and we were living with contractors. i spent 270 days out there. there were some things wrong that had to be fixed. so many engineering things. not to mention the operational challenges. try to get changes in for operational uses that they did not want to put in because of one thing. it was not the cost. it was the schedule. kennedy had said, i want a man on the moon this decade. 10 years, you try to do something today in 10 years. but to get there, they wanted to keep moving along. so they started making improvements. when they made a block 2 spacecraft, they canceled the second block 1 spacecraft. that was the one we were on. we became backup crew for about three months on apollo 1. that number got changed. >> more fate.

this is apollo 17. but the guy running the camera finally got it right on apollo 17. so up we go. up they go. and our flight, we'd have been out of the frame. he didn't. there's a second and a half delay. you punch the button and by the time the signal gets to the moon a second and a half later. so he had to be right on. he finally got it right on apollo 17. and we saw much of the ascent until we got out of view. we rendezvoused, 60 miles up. took about an hour. this is all that's left. we eventually jettison the lunar model. this is actually a picture of the journey home. by the time we got home you didn't see but a little thin sliver of the earth. reentry, the last time i saw, i noticed the commuter, we were accelerating through 30,800 feet per second, which translates to over 26,000 miles an hour. and apollo came back in. we had lift. we didn't have wings. but like the shuttle. but we had to offset the center of gravity, so it generated lift like .25 lift over drag. so you could fly the command module on auto pilot and manually, to land where you wanted to land in the pacific.

i don't know if you guys know that apollo 7 was the first manned flight of the apollo missions. they had sent some up unmanned, and they've had worked perfectly. but it is a different deal when you have real guys up there. so your mission was really kind of pivotal in going to the moon, beating the russians, and all that. put that into the context of the cold war. >> first of all, not all the unmanned launches were perfect. the press told us they were __ but, you see, we had good engineers. astronauts category because we were sitting there. but believe me, what we had was 400,000 people that worked on that program __ government and civilian employees. those people, they had the guts, too. the management people at the johnson space center and throughout nasa, i think __ i was just most familiar with it there at jsc __ management had the nerve to make decisions and go with the results of it. and today, it is all too frequently __ unless they can reduce those risks zero tthey don't want to make a decision. many of them are much more emotional about the program than i think i was at

before charlie was famous for apollo 16, he was famous for apollo 11. and you won't know his face, but you'll know his voice. when those guys are running long and the fuel was running out charlie was the capcom. he was the guy communicating from nasa control center to neil and buzz. so i guess nobody better to take us through those tense minutes than charlie. talk about 11. and remember, take us back. >> before i do that, first, jim, good to be back with you in the explorers club. it's always a pleasure to be invited to have the opportunity to speak to the members and the public. and so thank you for coming. and i hope you enjoy our 45 minutes, an hour, or whatever we have here together. so i was very privileged to work on apollo 11 and mission control. the team that was on apollo 10 that did the lunar activation and checkout, of which i was the capcom, we just sort of moved over to apollo 11 for that same phase. and the only additional thing was going to be the landing. apollo 10 went through the descent, didn't land. came back up, aborted. then rendez

he was the lunar module pilot on apollo seven in 1968. heart of a series of conversations of astronauts and private citizens that have flown into space. >> the c-span cities tour takes book tv and american history tv on the road, traveling to u.s. cities to learn about their history and literary life. his weekend, we partnered with time warner cable or a visit to austin, texas. >> we are in the private suite of linden and lady bird johnson, the private quarters for the president and first lady. when i say private, i mean that. this is not part of a tour offered to the public. this has never been opened to the public and you are seeing it because of c-span special access. vip's come into the space as they did in lyndon johnson's day but it is not open to the visitors on a daily basis. the remarkable thing about this space is it is really a living breathing artifact. it has not changed at all since president johnson died in january 1973. there is a document in the corner of the room signed by among others, the then-archivist of the united s

apollo 1, the fire. where were you?t is just like the challenger for us. >> challenger is probably much more memorable. challenger and columbia. both terrible disasters. but back in that timeframe, and that was in 1967. in 1966, don eisley and i were assigned to the crew of what would be apollo 2. and we were living with contractors. i spent to 270 days out at rockwell. there were some things wrong that had to be fixed. so many engineering things. not to mention the operational challenges. try to get changes in for operational uses that they did not want to put in because of one thing. it was not the cost. it was the schedule. kennedy had set, i want a man on the moon this decade. 10 years, you try to do something today in 10 years. but to get there, they wanted to keep moving along. so they started making improvements. when they made a block 2 spacecraft, they canceled the second block 1 spacecraft. that was the one we were on. we became backup crew for about three months on apollo 1. that number got changed. >> more f

walt was on the pivotal apollo 7 flight, which was really make or break for the apollo flight program. they had sent some unmanned ones up and, of course, they had the terrible fire on apollo 1. these guys had to go up and make it happen, and they did. this is one of the greatest. let's hear it for walt cunningham. [applause] >> that is a pretty good welcome. i keep hearing i'm going to call him glenn cunningham, the old quarterback. anyway, we were talking before __ this is a great story, and i want you to explain it. evidently, the number 13 and 14 had a lot to do with your career. talk about it. >> well, actually, like a lot of people, you learn things later that you didn't know when it was critical. but it must've been about 10 years ago, i get an email from a friend of mine. paul was the head of affairs when nasa selected me back in 1963. how many here were alive in 1963? oh, a few of you. anyhow, after i got selected, i met paul. he was the only person i knew who was associated with nasa. then after i left nasa, i wrote a book called "the all_american boys". and __ and paul was

but before apollo 7, probably a month or so before apollo 7 flew, they started talking, the administration people at nasa, about apollo 8 going around the moon. that was a brand-new thing. we had five giant steps to go to the moon. you are going to test the spacecraft in earth orbit. that is what we did. then we have to test the lunar module. didn't follow instructions. [laughter] >> houston, we have a problem. >> and then, we test the lunar module in earth orbit. then fly close to or around the moon. vendor the simulation and the landing. well, administrators did this. they said, instead of finding a high orbit, we could send it around the moon. they considered everything. it was based on the success of apollo 7. they decided if seven was successful, they would have eight oh around the moon. it turns out that apollo 7 is the longest, most ambitious, most successful engineering test flight of any new machine ever. the reason it was so loaded was because we had lost 21 months after the apollo 1 fire. a year and a half, maybe a little less. to go to the moon. and we had to do it supposedly b

they said apollo generated 88 times the return on our investment. that is a good deal. >> and investment -- an investment manager would like this kind of stats. >> there are a few technologies that will have to be developed to take us to mars, where we can not only explore mars but stay and have a reliable system that works. i would like to see is go back to the moon. i think there are some things we could do on the moon scientifically. jack schmidt on apollo 17 is dying to get back and start mining helium three, a fusion will feel that leaves no radioactive decay, as i understand it. there is a lot of it up there. there is not so much down here. there are other things that can be generated. i think the moon would be a great place for to have a scientific base, like in antarctica. we can live and do the same on the moon. that would reap a lot of benefits if we could do that. to be honest, right now i don't see a real strong program to get out of earth's orbit. there is a -- we mentioned about the russians going to fly circum-lunar. the only spacecra

nasa's third civilian astronaut talked about the earliest apollo missions, the space race with the russians, and the future of nasa. here is a preview. >> apollo 7, to this day, was the longest, most ambitious, more successful engineering test flight of any new machine ever. and the reason it was so loaded __ planned 11 their first mission was because we had lost 21 months after the apollo fire a year and a half __ mmaybe a little less than that's because we had another fidonet __ to go to the moon __ flight in there __ to go to the moon. so when we went out for the 11 day mission, none of us thought we were going to go 11 days. you couldn't do that on the first mission. so we were actually surprised and a little bit irritated towards the end __ no food left, no nothing __ >> want to shower, get me back. >> so that was critical as to why it was so successful. >> you can see the entire conversation with walter cunningham tonight at 8:00 pm eastern. he is part of a series of conversations with astronauts and private citizens who have flown into space. >> the 114th congress gals in this tuesda

the reason why it was so loaded was because we had lost 21 months after the apollo 1 fire. we had to do it by the end of the decade. so we were trying to make up for all that. so will we went up for an 11-day mission, none of us thought we would go 11 days. you couldn't do that in the first mission. we were actually surprised towards the end, we still had to go to more days. [laughter] so that was critical and it was so successful. apollo 8 when out and went around the moon. >> you can see the entire conversation with walter cunningham tonight. he was the lunar ash not in 1968. quacks the c-span cities tour -- >> this c-span cities tour travel to u.s. cities to learn about their cities and literary life. we partnered with time warner cable for a visit to austin, texas. >> the private seat of london and lady bird johnson. this is not part of a tour that is offered to the public. this has never been opened to the public. you are seeing it because of c-span's special access. vips come into this space just as they did in lyndon johnson's day. but it is not open to our visitors

he was j finishing k's -- jfk's wingman for the apollo space program. he was instrumental in so many things with our current space program. when the astronauts first went to space, they couldn't sleep. colonel la roca was a key newsologist in the '50s, he understood how the body works. he magnetized the space capsule. jerry was a nutritionallist, he designed the food. he was jack -- [inaudible] younger brother. the reason i'm so excited about this, i was invited to give his eulogy at west point. i said there, i said the class of 1950 is the class the stars fell on. there were more generals in that class. well jerry reached for the stars. these men we've met in this chat don't pound their chest. they're selfless. that's why you don't know anything about them. we tell their story. the general is the one that facilitated that, allowed us into their lives, and we're so grateful to him. >> well, we always agree that we were the class that ended world war iii. world war iii was, of course the cold or war -- cold war peacefully, without touring a shot. so we d

before charlie was famous for apollo 16, he was famous for apollo 11.nd you won't know his face, but you'll know his voice. when those guys are running long and the fuel was running out charlie was the capcom. he was the guy communicating from nasa control center to buzz. so i guess nobody better to take us through those tense minutes than charlie. talk about 11. and remember, take us back. >> before i do that, first, jim, good to be back with you in the explorers club. it's always a pleasure to be invited to have the opportunity to speak to the members and the public. and so thank you for coming. and i hope you enjoy our 45 minutes, an hour, or whatever we have here together. so i was very privileged to work on apollo 11 and mission control. the team that was on apollo 10 that did the lunar

he was with the crew from the beginning of the apollo project. he went through all their training together. he did all of their around the world victory marches. i was fortunate enough to get to know him, spend a few years with him before he passed on. this is some of his work. he set the bar pretty high. this is the apollo 11 crew. i came onto nasa as an intern in television. i was a writer and a producer and spent the summer and nasa headquarters and i also did freelance photography. i went on to teach television at the university of pittsburgh. i called nasa every day and begged for a job. i think they got so sick of me calling that they gave me an office pit we will hear less from him. my busted me the option. he said that this position that bill had had had gone away and there were other agency photographers who had started to pick up at the very centers. i could either revitalize that or work and be a photo researcher in their office. both are great jobs. i definitely wanted to try to revitalize this position is best i could. i still have h

very much like apollo.ey're more and more well-positioned to be a real global, long-term diversified investment. they're in real estate. they're in vietnam. they're in so many different things. they really know how to run a successful business. so i love blackstone. and they give about a 5% yield. liz: take both of these ideas and put them up on facebook.com/lizclaman. speaking of facebook, those numbers are coming. thanks to jason and martin sass. sass chairman and ceo. we have the closing bell ringing five minutes away. we were positive most of the day in the markets until the fed release that had statement 2:00 p.m. eastern. we are off session lows, but the sell-off continues here. we're watching that, plus facebook about to release its numbers. don't go away. the second we get them, you'll get them. did facebook clean up on mobile advertising, and when will it start to flood popular apps, instagram and whatsapp with sophisticated ads to bring in the money and squeeze that out? stay tuned we're coming up

there is a since we could not do apollo. whatever you think of the affordable care act, i will maintain that an internet website is a demonstrably inferior and simpler and easier technology then building a rocket to sensibly to the moon. there has been the strength to climb we need to think about really hard. >> and like many, you are conscious that the pattern of growth in the economy has left many americans behind. there was a survey released this morning by polling agencies that reported 45% of americans say their personal finances have not recovered to where they were before the financial crisis. this is something that preoccupies the. can you suggest, it i'm putting you too much on the spot, one policy change that might make a difference for the 70-90% of americans who are not experiencing the benefits of economic growth. >> it is -- it is three separate debates. it is an equality debate. the answer is, yes. then there is a second question, which is why is this happening? it is a different action. it is much harder. alm

like the manhattan project or the apollo space program i think a lot of it had a private sector field. so the 19th century and early 20th century america was dominated these engineer schemer type of people that had some complex plan to build the transcontinental railroad or a canal through pamela or all sorts of things like this and ford motor co. company was an integrated complex monopoly. and there are sort of interesting companies like that that are being done but they are notable for their rarity. so you ask what did tesla do that is new? the electric car company. it is not that they invented a single losing but that they combined a bunch of different things together in just the right way to create a dramatic and a better car. this is also a big part of what steve jobs did successfully when he had the apple computer to the electronic company the original iphone and ipod. there was no single massive breakthrough. it was not really an incremental improvement or certainly incremental improvement it wasn't a point breakthrough but there was a complex coordination. so i think it is a m

. >> at the time of the apollo missions- nasa was receiving over 5% of the us federal budget. in 2013, it was less than one half of one percent. >> 4...3...2...1...and lift off! lift off of the 25th space shuttle mission and it has cleared the tower. >> and the agency's prestige has declined with that funding. in spite of its many major achievements, it's nasa's failures that have grabbed america's attention. >> engines throttling up. three engines now at 104 percent. challenger, go at throttle up. "roger go at throttle up." >> both challenger and columbia suggested the management system and safety culture at nasa was flawed. "flight controllers here looking very carefully at the situation. obviously a major malfunction." >> after columbia it meant that we really needed to think about moving on. xpensive. it also meant that us government could no longer consider itself a gatekeeper to space travel. >> we are now in a very uncomfortable position of relying on the russians to fly our people to the space station. >> the writing was on the wall. in 2001, dennis tito - a wealthy us

we have the apollo 11 crew. the first landing on the face of the moon. we highlight marshall nuremberg, who not only cracked the genetic code back in the 1960's, but also won the nobel prize for his work. charles schultz, one of my favorite parts of the exhibit. we were lucky enough to get two of his original sunday comics. and a pair of skates that illustrates it was a lifelong amateur hockey fan. that is something we try to do in the exhibit, to find one object or one document that speaks to the accomplishments of each person. the importance of an exhibit like 60 from the 60's is to show how americans 50 years ago completed work that is still relevant in the 21st century. for example, in the early 60's, we launched the first communications satellite, which was the precursor to the electronic age we are experiencing now. satellite communications, cell phone reception, worldwide television reception. one of the people we are highlighting is the inventor of the world's first videogame, which began the videogame revolution we have now. his prototype, that

we have the apollo 11 crew. the first landing on the face of the moon.highlight marshall nuremberg who not only cracked the genetic code back in the 1960's, but also won the nobel prize for his work. charles schultz, one of my favorite parts of the exhibit. we were lucky enough to get two of his original sunday comics. and a pair of skates that illustrates it was a lifelong amateur hockey fan. that is something we try to do in the exhibit, to find one object or one document that speaks to the accomplishments of each person. the importance of an exhibit like 60 from the 60's is to show how americans 50 years ago completed work that is still relevant in the 21st century. for example, in the early 60's, we launched the first communications satellite, which was the precursor to the electronic age we are experiencing now. satellite communications, cell phone reception, worldwide television reception. one of the people we are highlighting is the inventor of the world's first videogame which began the videogame revolution we have now. his prototype, that was de

. >> new feature film this time training the grandson of apollo creed.means the spotlight will once again be on the city of brotherly love and sisterly affection and you could even get a chance to star alongside some of the film stars diane the casting director and they've done number of great films in our area, joins us now to tell us more about the film, young lady welcome so glad, so pumped up about this. i might even do some one arm pushups. i don't know. >> i would like to see that, ukee. >> no, you wouldn't, trust me. tell us little more about the story line first. i've toll people over the last year that creed was coming, they're like what, another rocky fill until where is it going to go? this that, the other, tell us about it. >> you know what? really fabulous fresh look at the whole rocky story. >> okay. >> yes, you're right it as story of apollo creed's grandson who comes to philly, comes to rocky, asks him to train to be a boxer. i can't tell you much more about the plot. but it is, like i said, it is a new young look, at the whole, the whole

apollo seven. >> the 114th congress gavels in this tuesday at noon eastern. watch live coverage of the house on c-span and the senate live on c-span2 and track the gop led congress and have your say as event unfold. new congress, best access on c-span. >> now, more from the u.k. youth parliament with the debate on voting rights 14th. this event took place in november with more than 300 children are dissipating, ages 11 to 18. this is about ready five minutes. >> members of the youth parliament, we will come now to our last debate. all good things come to an end. i would love to have it over two days. [applause] who knows what might be possible in the future?

the reason i insist -- i have done probably two specials at the apollo.as like in south africa. south africa and the apollo. because sometimes i do things that are critical of black culture. critical of my people as a whole. when you do jokes like that, it is important to cut to a black face laughing to signal that this is not racist. black people can be racist against their own people, too. >> you did a whole nine minutes on that. >> we can be just as racist as anybody else. it is kind of to relax the audience. black people laugh better than white people. they are just better laughers. black people laugh with their feet. they are really into it -- it is the mouth, and the feet. white people kind of just laugh from their neck up. >> seinfeld says you can do race better than anybody else. you can put it in a way that people can to the truth of the race in america. >> maybe. i am from that era. i was bused to school in 1973. we tend to think racism is older -- >> you were bused to a white irish catholic community. >> irish and italian kids. think of it this

eastern on c-span, from the explorers club apollo 16 astronaut charlie duke, the youngest man to walk on the moon. sunday at 8:00 on c-span's "q&a," resident and ceo of the largest national hispanic civil rights and advocacy group in the united states. on c-span2, tonight at 10:00, meet chuck todd, on president obama's performance. and our three-our conversation with talk show host and author tavis smiley with your calls e-mails, and tweets. and tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3, opening-day remarks by former house speaker's tip o'neill, newt gingrich, then he has to, and nancy pelosi. we will hear from senate majority leader's byrd, howard baker, bob roll, and george -- bob dole and george mitchell. let us know about the programs you are watching. call us, e-mail us, or send us a tweet. join the c-span conversation. like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >> all weekend american history tv is featuring austin texas the loans star state's capital and fourth-largest city. hosted by our time warner cable partners, c-span's city tour's staff recently visited sites showcasing aus

there's is designed to land by parachute, much like the apollo capsule. they land in the desert of context on. -- kazakhstan. 70% of the earth's water, so we practiced surviving in water. one of the fun parts, which you can do for $5,000, is called zero gravity trading. there was a company in florida zero g, that does this. we did it during our training. you go out in a plane in freefall for about 30 seconds in a parabola. get to experience weightlessness. just gives you the feeling. i guess they check out if you are going to check out if you're going to get ill. we mentioned fear earlier, and that is a question i get asked about. fear. the worry i had from the beginning is house going to be afraid. before i got up to the solution 76, i wonder, am i going to do ok in this? am i going to get sick in this plane? but i actually got to do it. it was all right. just when i was climbing up the rocket, we were about to launch. i feel ok now, but what if i get up there and freak out? fortunately, i did not. for my fear was always before the actual event. not duri

and actually, apollo's head is carved in -- carved by a different hand. looks much longer and unlike the other marble figures of the women, the nine daughters of zeus from whom we get the word museum. actually, this whole box was carved except for apollo's head which was left a blank, a block. then carved at a later time as a funerary portrait of the deceased who must have loved the arts in life. and in death became one with the muses. phoebe continued to buy, was the gardener of the west. -- she and her son were fellow collectors. and one of her great one frs the -- great benefactors was the university of california. she donated millions to it funded the architectural competition for its campus design in 1899, befriended many of the students. including julia morgan. who was in the engineering department at the university of california. there was no architecture department in the 1890s. and phoebe hearst actually offered to fund her architectural education. morgan refused, saying your confidence is enough of an inspiration to me. she had been born in reas

the grandson of the apollo creed, who asks rocky balance boy a to train him to fight. this? our ukee washington had a chance to speak with casting director dianne herey earl ter day about this film and she says they will show parts of philadelphia never before seen on film. >> we want to see people from the neighborhood. that is who we want to see. that helps tell the story. >> sure. >> that helps paint the picture of the film. >> if you want to be an extra you have to be 18 years of age, or older but if you do, just send your photo and your information to here y casting.com that is h-e-health. -r-y casting.com. >>> well, oprah winfrey is generating buzz for her new film, and liam neeson packs a punch in the the latest installment of the taken thrilling. >> kevin frasier from entertainment tonight has more on what is new in theaters this weekend. >> reporter: taken three find liam neeson frame for murder of his ex-wife and send him on the run to clear his name and protect his daughter from his past. >> there have things i have done in my life and i was always ready to

. >> winning with apollo. >> he is well known for turning around these story food brands. tripled his money this year. next year he could triple his money on the hostess sale. the biggest winners here are his two sons who make no secret about enjoying their father's business success. i have a quote from the times. >> you mean like a party. >> a quote. i have been with more chicks than any fat guy you know is what he boasted to the "new york times." these guys are really excited about the comeback. >> how have i not gone out drinking with these guys? i don't get it. >> i can't follow this. i think there are very few sure things in business. one of them is hillary clinton speaking tour next year. until the moment she announces the cash is going to roll in and yes it is because she is a terribly electrifying public speaker, so amazing that people are moved to pay her hundreds of thousands of dollars. >> worth $400,000. >> if you saw her live you would understand the magic that happens. >> magical. >> she is going to crush it. she is absolutely going to crush it. >> the book d

one thing apollo did do was, it was the opening bell if not responsible for the tech boom. it accomplish a great deal towards inspiring our generation to get -- it did inspire our generation to get into the tech industry. i am a game developer. like so many people of my generation inspired by this, a lot of them turned back to space. we're way past 2001 and we are way short of having a -- rotating platforms in space. the reason why that has been true is a pretty simple equation. traveling to space is expensive, dangerous. it is not surprising that it would be very uncommon. that is what is changing now. those first assumptions that it has to be expensive and dangerous, those assumptions are wrong foundational he -- foundationally. my life is working with a new company. the cost is going to drop in the next decade about 1000 fold. safety will go up. for a lot of us -- those of us inspired by apollo but the dream does not happen, that is the group of us who went off to do tech stuff. i had a father who was an astronaut. he flew on skylab as well as the ninth launch of the shu

soyuz is designed to land by parachute, much like the apollo capsule. but russia does not have good access to the water, so they land in the desert of kazakhstan. but if we went off course, you could have mountains, desert. 70% of the earth is water. so we practiced surviving in water. one of the fun parts, which you can do for about $5,000, i think, is called zero gravity training. there was a company in florida zero g, that does this. but we did it during our training. it is where you go up in a plane in freefall for about 30 seconds in a parabola. you come up and do it again. you get to experience weightlessness. this just gives you the feeling. i guess they check out if you are going to get violently ill or something like that. i seemed to make out. we mentioned fear earlier, and that is a question i get asked about, is fear. the fear i had, always, from the beginning, is that i was going to be afraid. before i got on to the aleutian 76, i wonder, am i going to do ok in this? am i going to get sick in this plane? that was the fear part. when i actua

so, when the apollo launches were happening, we would go to somebody's house, occasionally we would drive4 hours for a three-minute launch, and then drive back. >> so did you want to be an astronaut? >> i think i was too tall. >> let's talk about that. you played college basketball. what did you learn in team sports? >> quite a bit. i struggled to hang on the end of the bench. i practiced more basketball than i played. not being a starter, not getting a lot of playing time is a bit of a humbling experience. it creates drive. when i got to my next place, it probably pushed me to try even harder. >> you studied engineering? what were you hoping to do? >> right, my sister was employed at compaq in houston. my first job out of college was at compaq, where she was. we were working on a motherboard designed for desktop computers. >> you went to the university of florida, mba from the university of texas. these are not typical schools where silicon valley recruits from. harvard, stanford. so, i wonder if silicon valley is missing the next bill gurley. >> i went to work on wall street. the univer

for a lot of us, there's a documentary out called orphans of apollo __ i like that term. those of us who weren't fired by apollo, inspired by that dream, but that she never happened. that's a group of us that went on to do this tech stuff. my part of the story __ i had a father who was an astronaut. he flew on skylab, as well as the ninth launch of the shuttle. i had a mother who was a professional artist. i think it is the best way to raise a kid __ that combination of appreciation. invite me to computer games. you will forgive me if you played my ultimate games. you probably heard of the term avatar __ i created that name. my explanation began right here at the expiration club. when i wanted to go to space, a nasa doctor told me that i could not because of my eyesight. at the age of 13, i said, if i cannot go with nasa, i will have to build a personal space travel agency. my first investments were with retiring nasa astronauts. interestingly, all of those were failures. my 2020 hindsight says because nasa astronauts were great pilots __ not necessarily entrepreneurs, bu

jordz on grand sop of rocky friend apollo ceed and trained by stallone. >> i thought i saw him running by. >> woman and kid 20 yards out moving towards convoy. >> bradley cooper shoots down the competition at the box office this weekend setting records. oscar nominated american snyder brought in more that 90 million a record for january and the most trauma has ever brought in in opening weekend and clint east wood directed film is based on true story of navy s.e.a.l. sharp shooter. >> wedding ringer starring kevin hart came in second rounding off top five with paddington and taken 3 and "selma". >> time toor traffic and weather. good morning. >> we have residual moisture on stromtracker 3. don't worry about what is falling from the sky but what is left on the ground from the storm yesterday. more than anything it's wind driven upper level moisture. current temperatures you need to consider. even if it reads on these numbers or in your car as you drive down the highway that's it's above 32 it doesn't mean the ground is above 32. so just expect it could very easily have refroze ep over.

i have never melt felt such tension in mission control, and i was there apollo 10, 11. i was there 13 and 17. and we had never felt any tension like that. and it got dead silent, as i recall. i started a stop watch. and 13 seconds later buzz said contact, engine stop. and so -- and it was sort of a pause. and we knew they were on the ground. and the data said, okay, looked okay. and about this time neil comes up and says, tranquility base here, the eagle has landed. i replied, roger. and i corrected corrected myself. i was so excited, i couldn't even pronounce twan quill tranquility, so it came out twang at first. i said we copy on the ground. you got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. we're breathing again. and that was the truth. at least i was holding my breath. are we gonna make it? now, neil had to write stuff. and if i'd have gotten to eagle aboard and him 20 feet off the moon, he wasn't going to abort. >> that conversation was hosted by the explorers club in new york city. you can watch it in its entirety tonight at 8 p.m. eastern, here on c-span. >> the c-span

. >> it has been a dream of her since she saw the apollo moon landing. in russia six months before taking off on her stellar vacation. one expected to cost her $52 million. i wonder if she will sing a lot up there. >> she's a good singer. i know what it is like to be in tight quarters and can't get away from your co-worker that sings a lot. roll that footage. ♪ got lost in the game ♪ >> every day. ♪ it's close to midnight ♪ >> i have to hear this every day, every single day. ♪ thriller ♪ >> every day. >> this is just during the commercial break. look at how upset you get. >> i'm not upset. >> you get annoyed and you are trying to read and prepare for the next segment. >> it is you, reena. we love you and we'll take you. if this is what we have to deal with, we'll deal with it. >> you say it with such enthusiasm. controversy dressing up like a nerd and poking fun at people with shy bladder syndrome. the ad agency is rolling out five more. >> lowe says the next batch of spots features his favorite character yet, meat head. the premise is you have to be stu

who is rocky and who is apollo creed. >> the guy's driving a 50-year-old car and we're on the canvas. >> cuba needs us more than we need them. i don't understand. >> you hear what he is saying. raul is saying you do this, this, this and all the embargoes or no deal what do we say? >> could you imagine ronald reagan being given this ultimatum after he got off the floor dying of laughter, he would say no. >> one we are going to send them potentially massive amounts of money in the tourist traffic that will be heading south to cuba. i hate this normalized relations with cuba. we actually collect pre-revolution like cuban glasses from the casinos down there. >> who does do you? >> yeah, i do. old newspapers. >> there is something weird about that. >> cuba was cool back in the day. >> there is that. >> ben stein what do you make of what's going on here? it's clear cuba gets money out of this deal. it gets more out of this, at least initially, than we. am i missing something? what do you think? >> first of all, was that a picture of buddy holly raul castro had on his desk? >> it was. >> thi

reprice his role as rocky balance boy playing the trainer to the grandson of the his faux turned friend apollo creed, got that, sound good. the the film is set for release right the now in 2016. >>> what do you think of the return of rocky, happy reunion, overkill. tell us on facebook and twitter. use hash tag cbs-3. we might read your comment on "eyewitness news". >>> i think it is great. lets go tonight before the rain comes. eyewitness weather watchers are talking about the weather changing. we will go from icy conditions, in some spots, to rain and then to brutal cold, all in the matter of a couple of days. take a look at these temperatures though. little milder then we saw last night, that is for sure. temperature 35 degrees right now in philadelphia, that reported to us by jonathan, to the north and west of the city, we will take it to you suburbs where lou was saying 34 degrees, not much win a very big improvement from yesterday at this time when we did have breezy conditions. it will take you to the mount laurel area in south jersey where shawn is saying 39 degrees in the mount laurel

. >> reporter: after apollo spending on space both public and private has gone into a higher orbit. >> never before in the history of human space flight has there been so much going on all at once. >> reporter: as much as these two companies are rivals they're also partners. a new docking unit will be sent to the space station, built by boeing delivered by space x. i'm jane wells. >>> coming up the technology being developed that will help keep your eyes on the ropes. >>> good news for drivers. gas prices now have fallen to the lowest price since april of 2009. the lundberg survey said regular gas is averaging just $2.07 a gallon nationwide. >>> finally tonight, what if your car watched you drive and warned you when an accident was about to happen? the technology has been developed and will soon be found in many vehicl. phil lebeau has an exclusive look at the company watching your eyes to make sure they're watching what they ought to. >> reporter: despite repeated warnings about the dangers of texting and driving, or being distracted behind the wheel, a lot of us are not paying atten