my guest this week is astronaut chris hadfield. was there a heart pounding moment in space, a moment that scared you? >> the only time i felt a raw animal shiver of fear go up my back was watching a shooting star like a meet meteorite enter the atmosphere. there is darkness and then a blistering streak of light cuts across the sky. my first reaction was wow, beautiful, a shooting sar. but my thought was then, what was that, a ball one derg ancient rock coming in at 20 -- blundering rock coming in, if it was a little higher it would have hit us, instead of feeling like i was on the front of the titanic like king of the world suddenly my.spaceship felt like a little bubble. >> you went blind in space. wasn't that scary or dangerous? >> we only go out when we need the dexterity of human hands to go fix something or we need the cleverness of the human brain to be able to look at a problem and jiggle something into place or a complex task. i was outside on my first spacewalk. we were building the huge robot arm, the cancan cannon arm. o

we talk to astronaut chris hadfield. >> it is really going to help us not only understand space flight for long-term flight, for going from here to the moon and mars and beyond but also just understand the subtle changes that happen within the body and teach us inherently about human physiology. >> woodruff: those are some of the stories we're covering on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> lincoln financial-- committed to helping you take charge of your life and become you're own chief life officer. >> and the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: wall street came out of the gate today in a mood to run. stocks surged ahead in part based on upbeat economic reports. the dow jones industrial av

chris hadfield tells us what the space station is like. >> the space station is an incredible outpost on the edge of our capability. it is vast, it's strange to launch into the darkness to fly through space and suddenly have a little star get bigger and bigger and bigger and sort of grow into this huge human structure orbiting the world. it is like a gift to be weightless, it is magic all of a sudden you can take this wrist watch of mine which i first got to orbit i notice that it was floating and flying. almost like i had a living snake wrapped around my wrist and i keep my watch strapped loose for the rest of my life just because it reminds me of being weightless. spending a year being weightless is different than this body was evolved. i'm lifting my arm i'm lifting it but in weightlessness, nothing resists you exercise two hours a day. when you first get back to earth your body will start to recover quickly but then it will take a few weeks to really get back to normal. a few months until you can run properly. and a matter of a few years to grow your skeleton completely back. it i

chris hadfield tells us what it's about. >> human outpost on the edge of the, to have a little star get bigger and bigger and bigger and grow into this huge human structure orbiting the world. it is a gift to be weightless, it is magic you can take this wrist watch which when i first got to orbit i noticed it was floating and flying, almost like i have a living snake wrapped around my wrist. i keep it loose all my life because it reminds me of being waitless. this was not how the body was devolved. in weightnessness everything floats you don't even have to hold your head up. we fight it by exercise two years a day resist resistive resistives exercise. a matter of a few years to grow your skeleton completely back. it is through exploration that we understand the world and we understand ourselves. space exploration is no different. it is just fundamental to human nature. it is how we get to know where we are how it's interdpenlt and interdependent and how to distinguish. >> italy has decided to officially recognize neapolitan pizza. should be cooked in a stone oven with an oak wood fire.

astronaut chris hadfield. >> it's the raw human experience that's at the core of anything that matters. >> it was a young boy from ontario that became the first canadian to walk in space. >> it's hard relentless. the selection process to become an

julie said she was shocked when she saw the name, chris hadfield. she bought the suit for just $40.acked him down on facebook. he confirmed it's the real deal, but he has no clue how it ended up on that rack. >>> and now drama to the alps. thousands of skiers stranded. a rock slide sent this 50-on the boulder crashing down on to the main road. so massive, it cracked the pavement, blocking anyone from coming or going. crews had to use dynamite to blast the rock away. >>> and from poker face to polar face. that is lady gaga, yeah, in the icy waters of lake michigan today. making a surprise appearance with her fiance, actor taylor kinney. the chicago event raised money for the special olympics. and while he may have been slightly upstaged, but vince vaughn called the event fantastic. looked good but cold. >>> still ahead, the mystery of the missing recipes. a bakery's secrets to its secret recipe stolen. the search for the sticky fingers behind the cruffin caper. natural gas producer... and we could soon become number one in oil. because hydraulic fracturing technology is safely recove

. >> if there is anyone who knows what life is like in space, it's canadian chris hadfield who spentfive months floating around the separation space station and he shared the experience with us. >> the space station is an incredible human outpost right on the edge of our capability. it's vast, it's really strange to launch into the darkness, fly through space and then have a little star get bigger and bigger and grow into this huge human structure orbiting the world. it's like a gift to be weightless. it's magic all of a sudden. you can take this wrist watch of mine. when i first got to orbit i noticed it was floating and flying, almost like i had a living mistake wrapped around my wrist. i keep my wrist strap loose for the rest of my life to remind me the magic of being weightless. here i'm fighting gravity. i'm holding my head up. i lift my arm up. but in weightlessness everything floats. you don't even have to hold your head up. we fight it by exercising two hours a day on this space station resistant exercise, treadmill with list elastics. when you get to earth your body recovers

. >> ground control -- >> a space suit belonging to astronaut chris hadfield known for his space odysseyn the international space station has made its way to a canadian thrift shop. hadfield retired in 2013 after his trip to the international space station says he had no idea how his suit ended up in the thrift shop. the shopper who bought it says hadfield confirmed it's his. >> my jaw just dropped. i said i can't believe this. this looks just like the flight suit he wears on the back of his book. >> smart lady. it was. the price she paid for that authentic space suit? $40. >> wow. >> that's a deal you're not going to get. you won't get a mike schuman 49ers jersey for that. >> sharks struggling at home. ottawa, eighth straight loss. >>> yogi berra said it best, de deja vu all over again. your next stop, the twilight zone. don't believe it check it out. this is thursday. sharks dominate the first. 1-0. flash forward to tonight. once again, they dominated the first. second period on thursday. red wings tie it at 1 on the power play. second period, byrnes once again in the box. ties it on t

said she thought the blue suit was just a replica of one that belonged to canadian astronaut chris hadfield until she tracked him down on facebook. it turns out it was one of hadfield's many space suits likely donated to a warehouse that found its way in to a thrift shop. there she is looking spiffy in the new space suit. nice. >> yes. >>> now it is time to hit the beach. why not, grab some waves with one of the best surfers in the world. >> laird hamilton, you know the name maybe. riding on a foil board, it rises above the surface like that when it reaches a certain speed. >> he did this in the water off of new zealand. what else can we say? really cool, right. >> looks like aquaman. >> looks like he is levitating. >> it does. i want one. first i have to learn to surf, then we can do that. >> then you can do that, absolutely. >> i went on a surfing trip once for a week. it took me three days to get up on the board. >> and -- >> and then i got on the board and continued to keep falling but at least i got up. >> at least you got up. >> that's right. so in 75 years i will be where leonard is.