please welcome commander chris ferguson, colonel doug hurley, colonel rex waldheim and dr.andra magnus. (cheers and applause) heroes all thank you so much for joining us. i've got to tell you, we're all so thrilled that you're here. by the way, how did you keep your hair from getting messed up in the helmet. >> you don't. >> stephen: not easy in >> no. you just give it up. >> stephen: captain chris ferguson, colonel doug hurley, colonel rex waldheim, dr. sandra magnus, it's a thrill for all of us to have you here. i personally when i was a kid i wanted to grow up and be an astronaut. i knew that would never happen once i went into punditry. (laughter) did all of y'all want to be astronauts when you were growing up? >> i'll start. i watched neil armstrong walk on the moon andd from that moment forward there was a little bit of a glimmer there. i started flying airplanes and further on down the line made a marriage of the two and ended up becoming an instrument. it's really spectacular. >> stephen: anybody else? was this a childhood sdplepl >> i think it was something we thou

. >> reporter: pilot doug hurley isn't ready to give up space just yet. ten years from now? >> that's a good question. maybe another space flight. i'm young enough. i'm only 44 so i could probably do one more. >> nbc bay area news. >> such a long history to the space shuttle program right in the silicon valley in nasa ames in mountain view. jeff ranieri, happy monday to you. >> back together, reunited and it feels so good. >> i can't believe it's really jessica. if i was sitting closer to you, i would give you a big hug. >> i'll hold you to that. don't worry. >> here we have the fog building up on the coastline. we'll talk more about some hotter temperatures coming our way. that will mean some 90s for your tuesday. >> of course, i haven't seen jeff in a while and i don't get a hug, but we have more coming up on the biggest story of the day and how the players are affected. find out which 49er was so board -- bothered by the hthatshe vn he would bring his family to games in the future. that's next q isports. >>> danica patrick and the others are heading out for the big race.

kris ferguson and doug hurley and sandy magnus and rex walheim. thank you for being here.ou landed, you were -- it was different for you. you've all been on shuttle missions before but that must have been a little bit different. tell me how it felt when you first touched down. >> well, of course, you have the task at hand, you have to land and roll out and think about this is it. we have to say something profound and reasonable care everybody that did it and then you have to get out of the orbiter and that is tough knowing you're the last one to leave an orbiter that wale was in space. >> we call it bittersweet. is it? >> yeah. i think the term is overused but you do honestly feel a bit of sadness the program ends, but, yet, excited of all the things we did over 30 plus years. >> what do you tell people? when we are ten years away from this or 15 years away and people say what was the big deal about the shuttle program, what would you tell them? >> i got a couple of answers for them. you know, the hubble telecope. the great pictures we continue to see and because the schul