we spoke to barbara morgan, who was christer‘s back—up astronaut. spoke to barbara morgan, who was christer's i were sitting on the sofa, watching the news, and president reagan came on and made the announcement, it was remarkable. we are directing nasa to begin a search entered to choose is the first citizen passenger one of america's finest, a teacher.|j first citizen passenger one of america's finest, a teacher. i will a lwa ys america's finest, a teacher. i will always remember my husband, writer, jumped up immediately and said, why a teacher, why not a writer? and i laughed and said, i thought a teacher would be the perfect choice. christa was chosen as our teacher in space, i was very lucky to be chosen as her back—up. christa was very much the girl next door, she had an effervescent smile, she was very intelligent and soaking it all in. we spent six months training at the space centre with the challenger crew. some of our favourite training was in the simulators to learn what it is like to be weightless. we did not stop laughing the entire flight. launch day was the 28th of january. we

the former teacher and astronaut barbara morgan.sent throughout the history of space flight and in 1997 tragedy nearly struck again when a resupply vessel crashed into the mir space station. astronaut michael foale told us how he and two colleagues managed to contain the damage. mir was a space station built by the russians. the impression you got when you opened up the hatch and went into mir for the first time were twofold — one was the smell, a smell of an oily garage. maybe a bit of must because we did have mould on the mir. and then the other impression is clutter, and so as you go through, it is like going into the oesophagus of someone's throat. after six weeks of being on the station, i'd had been doing my experiments, i'm ver happy, i got up on the 25th ofjune, and the flight engineer and flight commander had been using radio control equipment to fly a cargo ship called progress that weighs seven tonnes into the mir station using a tv looking at the station. as i look at his tv screen, i could see the orientation is all wro

morgan. >> barbara, you heard leigh ann's reporting talking about the new step in impeachment proceedings, but nancy pelosi made a show of making nice with the insurgent party in her wing, but is she setting herself up for a bigger fight over the question of impeachment? >> nancy knows exactly what she's doing. they are in a search for the truth. and they are in search of proof. and by continuing these investigations, and telling the court that there is a possibility of an impeachment inquiry, they will get more information. and i believe the courts will say yes, don mcgahn, you do have to come before the congress so they do their oversight. so here's the thing about speaker pelosi, who i have known forever. she is very wise. this is a representative government. she basically said to her members, you do what you need to do. many of them will go home and they will hear their constituency say investigate, impeach. some will hear, take care of me. take care of my problems. my health care, my kids' education. and that's what this government is about. so everything is on the table. and mainly i