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that's next. >> and buzz aldrin buzz aldrin has been to the moon.inks it's time you know it's time to get to mars. he joins us with his new book and what he thinks it will take to reach the red planet. you're watching "starting point." ♪ (train horn) vo: wherever our trains go, the economy comes to life. norfolk southern. one line, infinite possibilities. new beneful medley's... ...in tuscan, romana, and mediterranean style varieties. just mix it in... ...and take play to new places. three cans in every pack. new beneful medley's. >>> welcome back. today is the day mark sanford finds out if voters choose redemption or rejection. the former south carolina governor is in a tightly contested race for a congressional seat in his home state two years after he left office in disgrace. cnn national political correspondent jim acosta live from charleston, south carolina, this morning. good morning, jim. we'll see how long the memory south carolinians have. >> that is the key question in this race, christine. good morning that's right. voting locations are o

buzz aldrin says there are new finish lines ahead.space exploration." he explains why the red planet is in the lead. he joins me live. such a pleasure, buzz aldrin, thank you for coming on. i want to get to mars and your book in a moment. >> sure. >> but something i learned today. not only was your mother born, sir, the same year as the wright brothers' famous flight, but given your history, her last name was -- >> moon. m-o-o-n. my grandfather's name as an army chaplain was faye arnold moon. >> just wanted to share that. okay. you lived the history and excitement, sir. now here we have a couple space shuttles collecting dust on display. we have to rely on russia to get us to the international space station. how do you get, in terms of getting people excited again, let me just play this clip. commander chris hatfield, he's been singing, tweeting. here he was from yesterday. ♪ to ground control >> is this the kind of personality that we need to get our young people excited again? >> well, i certainly hope so. things that are timely and

he was on man's first mission to the moon the second human but there but for buzz aldrin that's not enough setting his sights on the planet of mars with human vision. a growing permanent group people arrive there knowing that they're going to spend the rest of their life and they've been trained as a team to do that with right of use a different it's cheaper aldrin envisioned this happening by two thousand and thirty five but the mission to mars faces astronomical challenges financially technologically and politically it's like to give one political word to the political people it's to think twenty thirty years for the best of the country not for where you come from but in times of sikh laceration it seems the government is putting space travel on the back burner the obama administration has proposed slashing nasa has planetary program and the two thousand and fourteen budget now the private sector is stepping up dennis tito a multimillionaire and world's first space tourist plans to send a couple on a fly by mission to mars by two thousand and eighteen the inspiration mars project and vis

we're talking about buzz aldrin and his place in history. first a test pilot, then an astronaut. made it to the moon. now he wants america to make it to mars. perhaps even colonize it. aldrin explains it all in his new book "mission to mars." we talked about why this goal is so important, especially now, but he also first talks about what the u.s. is missing by no longer having nasa-manned space travel. >> i think what we have been missing is some of the inspiration that has come out of humans being there and exploring new and different things. instead of going up with the space shuttle, and at the space station and coming back again. we need to be doing exploring missions. >> do you worry that children now who are thinking about what to do with their lives, how they plan their lives, they can't necessarily look at nasa and can't necessarily look at manned missions for the inspiration that so many generations of the past were able to do? how do young people get inspired about science or even space exploration of the future in your view now? >> well, if you remember other people d

armstrong was relatively calm as he made history and his heart was not racing like fellow astronaut buzz aldrin. classic to listen to. 85 pieces in all from the apollo mission expected to go up for auction in 10 days. >> that's going to raise serious money. >> i like watching that. >> how can you not have your heart racing when you're walking on the moon. >> i don't know. can you tell me how you cannot do that. >> cool customer like jon kelley. take notes from you. >> average guy trying to get by. >> thanks so much for being can us. join us at 5:00, 6:00, and 11:00 and all day long. >> a lot of heat between you two. just saying. >> ♪ we don't have a ten step filtering process for our water. we don't need it. because crystal geyser is made by nature, not by man. crystal geyser is always bottled at the mountain source. ♪ tomorrow you shuck the cane ♪ ♪ your little fingers bloody ♪ prepare to be whipped - [whispering] she's asleep. [laptop rings] [baby fusses] - [loudly] hey, it's mommy! i'm in beijing! - shh. liddy just went to sleep. - well, wake here up, jack. she needs to hear her mommy's voic

they were brought back home by buzz aldrine and -- >>> good evening everyone welcome to this late sunday night edition of sports wrap. after three games in los angeles and three games in san jose the sharks western conference semi final series will come down to one game tuesday night in l. a. tom mclellan's guys in an elimination game. he put on joe thornton right by the l.a. net. san jose has a quick 1-0 lead. the sharks double their lead. t.j. galliardy fires past quick and it's 2-0. the two goals a bit deceiving. quick after that made 25 saves. a deflected effort later in the second got past him. dustin brown gets the goal and it's 2-1. it was a battle the rest of the way. a goal right off the chin. that's what you call taking one for the team. niemi with stood the challenge until quick came out. they force one game on tuesday that will either end the season or extend it. as fred inglis reports, the sharks better not play the way the last time they were in los angeles. >> every player was disgusted with their effort and execution thursday on their game in l.a. today they played fast a

buzz aldrin is joining us at the top of the hour to talk about his mission. stay with us. >>> this hearing is over but the investigation is definitely not as gop lawmakers still look for answers after the benghazi hearings. some people say we already know how to keep americans safe overseas, stop sending money to countries that hate us and instead spend it on beefing up security at u.s. embassies and consulates. tracy, no-brainer, right? >> no-brainer. $1.7 billion to iraq. why don't we try to protect our people a little bit. if you've got money to burn and want to send $500 million to the palestines, they hate us too. i can think of 50,000 things here in the united states that could use that money. >> wayne, not a bad idea. god only knows we need more security at our embassies, right? >> i think that's true, eric, but you know using money to bribe other nations to do something we want is not a bad idea. in other words, investing money -- if you were going to put a spy system in, this idea of standing on principle to say we won't recognize this nation because

>> reporter: "apollo 11" lifts off from cape canaveral, carrying astronauts neil armstrong and buzz aldrins later, and those words. >> that's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. >> reporter: he would spend two hours, 21 minutes, walking in the lunar dust, raising the american flag. later, we learned armstrong thought landing on the moon, not walking on it, was far more challenging. >> more forward. just into the right a little. >> reporter: but he also did something else. he collected 852 pounds of lunar dust, lunar rocks. and now, more than 40 years later, another small step and a giant find, in a california storage closet. some of that lunar dust, gathering dust. all those years ago, samples had been sent to 150 different labs. they were thought to have been sent back to nasa. so, nasa is over the moon tonight, just like the lab worker who found them. 20 vials, from the moon, from 1969. vacuum sealed in a glass jar container. the handwritten labels there, you can see, "apollo 11," rock dust. and that date, the 24th of july. now returned nearly 43 years later, and remindin

on monday i had a chance to talk with buzz aldrin, he thinks we can do it faster than that.sees that we could send people to mars probably in the early 2030s. stop on the moon first. they have two moons and do a lot of experiments there. iron out the kinks and he wants to see someone land on mars by 2035. there is also two private companies, mars one and they want to do it faster. >> heather: and virgin galactic, richard branson's efforts? >> this is in the background almost ten years now. they are building a spaceship that will take passengers and buy tickets. >> heather: it's unbelievable. this is within reality. >> test flights two or three weeks ago. they went supersonic. all they have to do now is point it up. >> heather: amazing. thank you so much for joining us. amazing stuff. gregg? >> gregg: vote counting is underway right now in pakistan despite threats and violence there that have claimed so far 20 lives. pakistanis head to the polls under a heavy blanket of security for a general election marking an historic transfer of power. coner powell joins us live from paki

. >> to have a piece of history like that, that comes from buzz aldrin, a lot of people want his undergarmentne of the yps up forbid on line. in the autograph and it is outer space memorabilia and some of the stuff locks like it might have been lost in the garage but it is rare with a starting bid of a thousand dollars or this device that did not fallout of the 67 chevy. it is one of the rarest items in the union verse designed to measure graveitty on the moon. only throw exist. most of the items that the astronaut took on the moon are left on the surface or in the smithssonian. >> deputy to auction.com. they expect to rake in a million or more. but the sky is the limit. fox news. >> we are watching the map starting to fill out. severe weather and large parts under the threat of strong stops. kansas and other states, we'll have an update when we come back. [ man ] on december 17, 1903, the wright brothers became the first in flight. [ goodall ] i think the most amazing thing is how like us these chimpanzees are. [ laughing ] [ woman ] can you hear me? and you hear your voice? oh, it's excitin

. >> reporter: "apollo 11" lifts off from cape canaveral carrying neil armstrong and buzz aldrin. in those words. >> it's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. >> reporter: he would spend two hours 21 minutes walking in the lunar dust, raising the american flag. later, armstrong thought landing on the moon not walking on it was far more challenging. >> to the right a little. >> reporter: but he also did something else. he collected 852 pounds of lunar dust, lunar rocks. more than 40 years later another small step and giant find in a california storage closet. some of the lunar dust gathering dust. all those years ago, samples had been sent to 150 different labs they were thought sent back to nasa. nasa is over the moon tonight just like the lab worker who found them. 20 vials from the moon from 1969, vacuum sealed in a glass jar container at lawrence berkeley lab. the handwritten labels there, you can see "apollo 11" rock dust, 24th of july. now returned more than 43 years later and reminding us all of the moment on the moon. david muir, abc news, new york. >> imagin

relatively collected as he made world history and his heart was not racing like his fellow astronaut, buzz aldrin. a total of 85 pieces. >> one small step for man. >> yes. >> one large leap for mankind. >> 80 pieces of apollo 11 are expected to go up for auction in ten days. >> i don't know if i want that for mother's day. >> another thing to say i love you better than something from the moon. >>> 5:27. state firefighters taking early action as they prepare for what is expected to be an specially dangerous fire season. >>> a homicide investigation surroundi surrounding the death of a northern california girl intensifying the search for evidence. >> look at that bay bridge glistening in its greatness. you know who is going to check it out for us, mike inouye. >>> a lot more news ahead. 5:27. >>> what was supposed to be a jouus celebration turned tragic. members of a bridal party turned into a deadly limousine fire. we will hear from the coroner about what happened the minute after the fire broke out. >> reporter: good morning. i'm marla tallez. cinco de mayo celebrations are broken up by san jose

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before we go this morning, you can see this week's conversation with the legendary astronaut buzz aldrinat "meet the press" nbc.com. he wants 0 go to mars. happy mother's day. that's all for today. . >>> good monday morning, and right now on "first look" as the president gets ready to meet with british prime minister david cameron, questions about the benghazi terror raid arrests. >>> will heads roll at the irs. >>> tiger woods wows them at the players championship, plus, prince harry with the wounded warriors at the u.s. air force academy. >>> michael j. fox's returns to prime time and sir richard branson apparently lost a bet. not a pretty woman. good morning, everyone, i'm betty nguyen. >>> the obama administration is on the fe

before we go this morning, you can see this week's conversation with the legendary astronaut buzz aldrinn our blog at "meet the press" nbc.com. he wants to go to mars. >>> happy mother's day. that's all for today. we'll be back next week. if it's sunday, it's "meet the press." \s 0 5- 12 -1 3 \ e >>> good sunday afternoon. i'm craig melvin, you're watching msnbc, the place for politics. we begin with the backlash from benghazi. >> how could you change talking points 12 times from what seems to be relatively right to what seems to be complete lly wrong? >> i don't think you can question that there was malevolence on the part of the president, on the part of the secretary of state, or anyone else. >>> deadly september attack played high on the washington talk show circuits this morning and it's already becoming a hot topic for 2016. >> was it because of a protest orec

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. >> buzz aldrin too? >> he has been to the moon.of a race car, the efrpg engineering that goes into a race car and then buzz says when i was on the moon,' pliz that to the stuff they're working. it's awesome to watch. >> you took a little career detour anden with to the white house for-- detour and went into the white house. what did you do? >> i worked in the office the office of public engagement the outreach team. i worked on youth outreach. every little thing from the president's health insurance piece where you can stay on your parents health insurance until you're 26, don't ask, don't tell repeal repeal, doubling the pell grant, the stuff i worked on had the most consensus. so if you're under 35 the things you care about are investing in education, repealing don't ask, don't tell. so it was an incredible experience to see that. >> you stayed longer than you thought you were going to stay. >> i was going to stay for a year. then i realized very quickly that government operates very slowly. a lot of the things i was working on w