a huge new facility in earth orbit. now this behemoth behind me is actually the backup skylab space station. it is flight ready. nasa built two of them in case they wanted to do two skylab missions or in case there was some hardware problem with the first skylab orbital workshop. we did make a modification to it. ordinarily, we don't modify flight-ready hardware. but this this case, we cut a passage way, two doors into it and laid down a sort of hallway right through the middle of this living quarters so people who visit the music can walk inside skylab. they can see the living quarters. they can look into the bathroom. they see a mannequin at the table with some food out on the table. the shower is set up there. the exercise bicycle is in plain view. they can see the trash air lock right there. and if they look up, they can just be wowed by the amount of free space there is. i mention that skylab was occupied in 1973 and '74. the last crew to leave skylab buttoned it up and put into it sleep mode with a vie toward a fu

returned to earth, with a human on board. by doing that in the year 2004, spaceship 1 won the x prize, a prize of $10 million that was posted to encourage commercial development of spacecraft that could be used for space tourism. spaceship one operates as a suborbital craft, it doesn't go into orbit around the earth, but like alan shepard did in 1961, it goes up, makes a loop into space, and then glides back down to a landing like an airplane would land. there is a mother ship that is the actual transporter aircraft, and spaceship 1 snuggles up under it. the mother ship is the one that flies it around here in the atmosphere. and then it is released from that. and after it is released, it is when the rocket engine ignites and shoots straight up. spaceship 1 is a very innovative design in that it has a hybrid rocket that is part liquid propellant and part solid propellant. it can hold three people, though in its prize winning flights it had only the pilot. and some ballas t to indicate te weight of two other people. it has a ve

john glenn became the first american to orbit the earth. railamerica, 57 minute. -- nasa documentary and the space race. , astronaut and u.s. senator from ohio died on december 8 at the age of 95. 77 year old senator glenn became oldest person to fly in space. a port of the space shuttle discovery. the astronauts condition report as can excellent. astronaut glenn remains the big question mark but the countdown is again underway. >> with the entire world as a witness the countdown begins at cape canaveral, florida. it begins here with these men they are the launch team from now until the end of the flight and it rests principally upon their skills. the countdown is their master plan. they proceed with unhurried deliberation. the timetable of order they must readiness test its and that for one supreme moment -- page upon page the count continues. rocket nowair force comes with restless energy to the mercury spacecraft as these men are sure it towards the final minutes on earth. today if all goes well, we will launch an american astronaut --o

, on spaceship earth.ot all bad. one of the other biosphere 2 crewmembers was taber maccallum, who later becamejane‘s husband. he's explaining how, although a balloon can't technically get you into the vacuum of space, the conditions in the stratosphere are similar enough, with very low air pressure and extremes of temperature in the sun and shade, to mean that world view‘s balloons are already carrying scientific equipment up in so—called stratolites, which can hang over one location for days at a time. so there's satellites in low earth orbit that are whizzing around at 17,000 mph, there are satellites in geostationary orbit that are very far away, have a hard time focusing in on things. and then below that we have aircraft, that can carry cameras and drones, and where we sit is sort of between all those. we can sit over a piece, persist over a piece of land for a while, and we have a close view, because we are only about 20 miles up, but we don't have the speed and expense of being a rocket, and we don'

the mercury atlas stands alone, waiting to depart this earth.f 3.5et, with thrust equal to million horsepower. all to hurdle a 168 pound astronaut into space. >> all stations, we are at lunch positions. start interrogation in one minute. >> the countdown sweeps closer to the moment of flight. and recovery teams here at the cape and around the world ready themselves to aid the astronaut. above all else john glenn's , safety is paramount. never in all of history have so many people shared, without censorship an adventure of such , magnitude. through all news media in all languages, all the people of the world are witness to this exploration of space, to its success or failure. t -15 minutes. and counting. there will be the smoking in the blackout still further notice. -- no smoking in the blackouts till further notice. >> roger, standing by bermuda. >> estimate five minutes, ok? five minutes. >> i said to take it down to t minus seven. we may have it by then. >> roger. >> do you want us to hold, bermuda? >> we would like to hold at seven, we lost

blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.eousness, for they will be filled. blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy. blessed are the pure at heart, for they will see god. blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of god. blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. this is the word of the lord. amen. ♪ may the lord bless you and keep you ♪ ♪ may he make his face to shine upon you ♪ ♪ to shine upon you ♪ may the lord bless you and keep you ♪ and make his face to shine upon you ♪ ♪ to shine upon you ♪ and be gracious to you ♪ ♪ ♪ may the lord lift up his countenance upon you ♪ ♪ and give you peace ♪ and give you peace ♪ and give you peace ♪ and give you peace ♪ amen ♪ amen ♪ amen ♪ amen >>> truth is god. as we embark on this journey on a path of justice, freedom and equality for all, under our true leaders, president donald trump and vice president mike pence, i would like to recite a prayer from the tenth of the six. [ speaking in a foreign

covered in storms, many even bigger than the earth.d by a thick atmosphere. and in this infrared view, at the top you can see jupiter's northern lights. and the sound was captured as the spacecraft flew through the spectacular light show. the team's reaction was just amazement. look at these images! they are coming from jupiter. we're flying over the pole for the first time. it isjustjaw—dropping. we're expecting more images like this over the course of the mission. scientists sayjupiter is like nothing they've ever seen before. but mars was the destination for the european space agency. the mission had two aims. firstly to get a spacecraft into orbit, which went exactly as planned. scientists also wanted to set down a lander on the planet's surface. but a signal was never sent back to earth. days later, these images revealed a crash site. the spacecraft had failed in the final moments of its descent. this year while we have been pushing the boundaries of space exploration, our focus has also been very much on our own planet. 2016 has

didn‘t really expect the conditions of the earth.d by seeing ships in the sea, no deep oceans on mars. i think the first expedition was like columbus. he gets over the atlantic and has no idea where he is or what he is dealing with. what followed that is the conquistadors, more purposeful and they know what they want and how to get it as well. so it is a story notjust of fear on earth, the sense of impending doom, it is the story of mutual incomprehension. yes, i think so. rather like the story of the americas, i guess. but the martians are on a kind of different moral level in a sense. and wells emphasised this. they are loyal to each other. they treat us as livestock, basically. awkward livestock that is liable to attack you if you‘re not careful but livestock. as with animals, they are loyal to each other, they come back to each other and save each other when they are wounded and so forth and what they are trying to do is save the race from a catastrophe back on mars. you talk in terms of wells in terms of enormous respect, obviou

the earth is about this size. the sun goes through a cycle where the sun's domestic field gets very active and then we get a lot of these. this is what we call space winter. which i guess makes bart de pontieu a space weatherman. he is in charge of iris, a satellite launched three years ago which looks at small parts of the sun in great detail. his job is to use what he sees to create solar computer simulations, which may unlock its mysteries, and may help us to understand where the particular coronal mass ejections will affect us on earth. you can see in this movie when that eruption happens. you see all that snow on the image. those are the energetic particles of the sun that hit our detectors, our ccds and they leave charges in there. these energetic particles in fact, notjust the ccds, but they can also impact the computers on—board satellites, and that means the satellites can flip a bit essentially and screw up the whole operation of the satellite. satellites have gotten lost as a result. and so when these t

twin, they travel for some time, come back to earth, for them maybe ten years have passed, but on earth maybe a thousand years have passed. and this is a real phenomenon that we measure all of the time in a laboratory. so how could we take advantage of that today? there is one measurement that we wish to make. you've heard that the university is expanding, correct? and so there is many evidences that point to this. but the thing that we have not been able to observe is the universe expanding in realtime. can we see the expansion change? can i observe the red shift of a galaxy change? what we call z-dot, for example. so imagine the twin experiment done in a different way. so suppose there is is this light that filled all of the universe. and because the universe is expanding, as the universe expands, that light gets stretched out by the exact same amount that the universe expands. well it turns out that exists. we call that light, the cosmic microwave background radiation. so my twin and i measure the wave length, some characteristic wave length of this microwave background radiation. an

they are among the most dishonest human beings on earth. applause they are. says sort of made it sound like i had a feud with the intelligence community. i want to let you know that it's exactly the opposite. and they understand that too. i was explaining about the numbers. we did a speech yesterday, everybody liked the speech. applause but we had a massive field of people, you saw that. i turned on one of the networks and they showed an empty field. i said, wait a minute, i made a speech. the field was, it looks like a million and a million people. they showed a field where there was practically nobody standing there. and they said donald trump did not draw well. i said, it was almost raining, the rain should have scared them away but god looked down and he said, we won't let it rain on your speech. the first line i got hit by a couple of drops, and isaid, i got hit by a couple of drops, and i said, this is too bad. but the truth is that it's dubbed immediately. it was amazing and became really sunny, it poured after i left. we have something that is amazing

. >>> the greatest show on the earth is no more. >> remembering martin luther king jr.'s message, today, more important than ever. "early today" starts right now. >>> good monday morning. i'm ayman mohyeldin. i'm gigi. francis is back tomorrow. >>> a turkish cargo jet crashed this morning. authorities say 30 people are dead after the boeing 747 crashed into 20 houses by the airport. ali joins us live in london with the very latest. ali? >> good morning. that's right. the turkish cargo jet crashed shy of the airport, killing at least 30 people. most of them were residents in their cottages in this little village that was struck by the boeing 747 as it tried to land in dense fog. now the cottages which the boeing struck are right by the runway, in very close proximity. the runway and the village are essentially separated by a metal fence and that's why the damage was so bad. you can see the devastating pictures show the plane plowed through a few hundred yards through the village crushing houses and finally ending up on top of one of the houses. you can see the remnants of

see what happens to seismic waves as they pass through the earths.he centre of the earth in the lab. that's what this team injapan have done. they've subjected different elements to incredibly high temperatures and high pressure. they say the missing element is silicone. it's about 5%. can they be sure? no. but it looks quite good. some other scientists a few years ago suggested oxygen. this suggests more strongly it's silicone. why silicone? why is this important, if you're a chemist you like silicone, so it's cool. but it tells you about the formation of the earth, what was going on at that time. you don't need to justify finding out about the centre of the earth, it's interesting. how we learn about it, how does it inform how we behave? it tells us more about what happened when we started out. the solar system formed 4. 6 billion years ago. the earth then formed. rocks coming together. for a while molten rock, liquid moving around. gradually it cooled down and out of this hard crust on the outside, you got this centre. by working out what's in the

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they found evidence that oxygen from earth is reaching the lunar's surface and could hold a record of atmosphere from billions of years ago. the team headed by osaka university professor kentaro terada analyzed data sent back from japan's lunar orbiter. researchers found that when the sun, earth, and moon line up and the moon is shielded from solar winds, the number of oxygen ions swirling around it increases. they say those ions appear to have originated on earth with lar winds blowing them 380,000 kilometers. terada says this could be a source of ancient secrets about our planet. >> translator: it's just my prediction, but there's a possibility that the earth's ancient atmosphere that's long gone now may be preserved in the sand of the moon. >> terada says the discovery is exciting because it means life on earth is affecting the moon. >>> and that's all for now on this edition of nhk "newsline." i'm raja pradhan in tokyo.qwux >> it is 1:00 p.m. here in the french capital. the headlines in the u.s. -- more protests. in the early days of the trump presidency, he fires acting attorne

tim came back to earth in his capsule last year.n's recent history of sending astronauts into space. the return to earth is the most exciting ride of all time in space. you feel the g build—up and you can see the outside surface bubbling away as you come through the atmosphere. the parachutes open up and you bump down on the ground. many of the children here want to follow in tim and helen's footsteps, but not all of them. who wants to be an astronaut? many children: me! not me. thank you. everyone here is really excited, especially at the news that tim is going to get another mission to the space station. we don't know exactly when, but it will be some time, probably, between 1919 —— between 2019, and 2024, so not long to wait before we can relive all that excitement of last year, all over again. the number of cars being built in the uk has reached a 17—year high — because of continued economic recovery in europe. the society of motor manufacturers and traders says more than 1.7 million vehicles were made last year — but they warne

. >>> back here on earth fbi director james comey announced his decision not to file criminal chargesgainst hillary clinton but just days before the election, director comey said investigators were reviewing thousands of into newly discovered e-mails that could be related to the case. >>> after reviewing the new e-mails, comey said he's still not recommending any charges against hillary clinton. >>> the year also saw major attacks targeting law enforcement officers in several cities. the deadliest happened in dallas suspect shot to death five officers during a protest against police violence. officials in florida announced the fires locally transmit the cases of zika virus here in the united states. the feds since warned pregnant women to avoid parts of the miami area. here in the united states zero receives attacks hours apart suspect stabbed 10 people at a mall in saint cloud, minnesota off duty cop later shot the suspect and killed him. that same weekend handmade bombs exploded in areas of new york city and new jersey injuring nearly 30 people. police later arrested that suspect af

blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.makers, for they will be called children of god. blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is kingdom of heaven. this is the word of the lord. amen. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ joo joo . >> truth is god. as we embark on this journey on a path of justice, freedom and equality for all under our true leaders president donald j. trump and vice president mike pence, i would like to recite a prayer from the tenth of the sixth. which means almighty god, give me that i do not deviate from the path of righteousness, good deeds, justice and equality for all. amen. oh god whom we cannot love unless we love our neighbor, let us pray for the most wonderful in our community and lead us to be present with them in their suffering. lord, you have taught us that we are members of one another. hear our prayer for all who do the tedious, dirty and dangerous work, which is necessary to sustain our life. blessed those who work for the fields and grant that all who depend upon their service m

that's what it was like looking back at the earth. it is a spiritual experience. >> apollo 17 captain gene cernan was the last american astronaut to walk on the earth's surface. >> the earth moves with logic, with purpose. i can tell you there is a creator of this universe because i saw a small part of that creation and it's just too beautiful to have happened by accident. >> eugene andrews cernan was borne in 1934 in chicago. his dream of being a naval aviator was sown at an early age. he signed up for the naval rotc program at purdue university and accepted into the u.s. navy a short time graduation. the newly formed nasa announced their seven pioneer astronauts. cernan was fascinated. a new dream was born. he wanted to ride a rocket shop into space. in 1963, nasa selected him for project gemini and apollo. cernan jumped at the chance. >> when i watch those guys go up, they were any heros. all of a sudden, i found myself walking a hall. they called me gene. >> he was the first pilot of the gemini 9. his next was 1979 as lunar module

my guess is it will get much easier to move the earth. move the earth further away. spirit so we are creating the space to move everything -- >> you are creating space when you move the earth. >> how far in the future to put something like that? >> the numbers are well known but i don't remember it but i think were talking about tens of billions of years. billions spirit the sun has been around for 5 billion years, and so far changing very slowly right now but that is expected to happen, as the fuel is burned up in the sun, then the heat that keeps the sun from collapsing gets weaker. the inner part of the sun collapses, the outer part of the sun is what comes out. so the will be a harder core of the sun but the service of the sun -- >> going back to now, the idea of balcom some time and space, equally being created. >> what would say is that the amount of time goes up locally when you create more space locally. the reason time flows in the universe is because the universe is expanding that's what's called the hubble expansion spirit so i one point we won't see other

it's very much different from earth. and it's just far enough away to be this beckoning challenge. nasa is gearing up for a mission to mars in terms of the technology they're developing and the astronauts they're recruiting. but they don't yet have an approved mandate to go to mars. and that's really a matter of political will on the part of the congress, the president, and the american people. i would say for the last decade there has been interest in going to mars eventually, but there has not yet been a successful program that has caught on and gained the political commitment that will be required. it's going to be an expensive endeavor. it probably will need to be done internationally so that the costs can be borne by various economies, various countries. and also just to involve other people, other nations who want to be part of space faring. the international space station is kind of the proof test of whether a major endeavor like that can be carried out internationally. >> well, from your vantage point, you're a h

. >>> still ahead after over100 years the greatest show on earth is closing doors. reactions from circus performers. >>> what ben ep sanders is saying. >>> we are following up on a highway shooting. police confirmed one of the men in the car was hit. his condition is not life threatening. two men were driving southbound on highway 242 after 5:00 this afternoon. the two victims were found at a valero gas station. the victims have not been identified. they were in a black mercedes when they were shot. officers do not have information about the shooter at this time. you can see some of those bullet holes in the car. >>> at 10:30 republicans are taking steps to repeal obamacare. democrats are working to save it. thousands gathered in san francisco including the mayor. nancy pelosi. it was part of a day of action. rallies were held in 40 cities including los angeles, sacramento. bernie sanders spoke at the event in michigan. it was attended by 8,000 people. >> mr. trump when he ran for president promised people in michigan and in america that he was a different type of a

inherit the earth.ple who brag a lot get the united states of america. and, my man, timothy cardinal dolan, of course, quoted solomon. >> from your glorious throne, dispatch her that she may be with us and work with us that we may grasp what is pleasing to you. >> stephen: yes, "that we may grasp what is pleasing to you." ( laughter ) ( applause ) i believe that's the same prayer trump said to billy bush on that bus. ( cheers and applause ) let us grasp. let us grasp. let us grasp. what is pleasing. now, there were some really nice moments today. like after mike pence was sworn in, we were treated to a beautiful rendition of "america the beautiful" by the l.l. bean category. ( laughter ) then-- you really can't button your coat if your tie is this long. it looks like half of it is trying to escape out a back door. then-- ( laughter ) can you tell i'm trying to delay this part of the monologue as long as possible. then came the big moment. donald trump taking the oath of office with his hand on linkon's

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this is the only earth that we have. but if we are not able to live here to work in this earth, what good is it? i hope them the best and god willing he is going to do what he says he's going to do. host: blair on the others line. caller: right now, i've been checklist to trump see how much president trump is going to actually do. -- i thinks making he is going to do a good job. uniting party lines, if democrats support him or come we can get more coverage. i think he is doing a good job. host: getting your thoughts and comments on the president's first week in office. we heard from president donald trump at the republican gathering in philadelphia. we are expecting to hear from mike pence and theresa may. she is in washington tomorrow for the president's first foreign visit. ahead of today's meeting in of the tweetsone this morning from the president said this -- an hour after that we came out from the mexican president announced he was not coming to the u.s. here's president trump's response this afternoon. the preside

tim came back to earth in his capsule last year. the g build—up and you can see the outside surface bubbling away as you come through the atmosphere. the parachutes open up and you bump down on the ground. many of the children here want to follow in tim and helen's footsteps, but not all of them. who wants to be an astronaut? many children: me! not me. thank you. since we've been here this morning the public have been flocking to see this piece of space history. let's find out more about it... doug mill arden is the curator of space here at the science museum. why have you decided to actually purchase this? you have not said how much it has cost, why put it on display? in order we've been loading to this spacecraft and this is the first time that the uk has owned this kind of spacecraft. it is a really important story for the country and we are very important story for the country and we are very proud that the science museum is in a position to be able to put it on display. have you seen something of a tim peake affect here at the

>> change the shape of the earth? not sure what you are referring to.ning the equator is a little further out than it would be. as that's been slows down it will change the shape a little bit. >> this is a little off but i can't see that the big bank, don't know how we will never get around the thing about time. we know before the big bang there had to be time. there had to be time. something was existing. i think so. because the big bang is very, very, highly physical process of course. >> time and space are part of physics. let me give you an alternative which is the way i think about it. i'm departing from what i know into since we don't really understand the big bang let me speculate and come up with a speculation that is completely 100% consistent with what we know but i have no way to test it. here is my hypothesis. it fits with everything we know. the big bang was not an explosion taking place within a space. it was an explosion of space. prior to the big bang there was no space. prior to the big bang there was no time. the big bang was the creat

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we remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on earth. our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year. our capacity remains undiminished but our time of standing and protecting narrow interests and putting off decisions, that time has surely passed. starting today, we west -- we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and begin the work of remaking america. everywhere we look, there is work to be done. the state of our economy calls for action, bold and swift and we will act, not only to create new -- jobs but to lay a new foundation for growth. we will feed our commerce and bind us together. we will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care qualities and lower its cost. we will harness the sun and the wind and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories and transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. all

he says he just created something that never existed before on the face of the earth. and he and his post-doctoral researcher, they made this brand new thing using this little device which is -- small and doesn't look that mighty but i think we've gotten a image of it here. this device is called a diamond anvil cell. it's basically like a vice where the two sides of the vice are specially polished specially coated synthetic diamonds and inside the vice grip they can create inside that little device they have figured out a way to produce almost unimaginable pressure. 72 million pounds of pressure per square inch. that is greater pressure than the pressure at the center of the earth. in that tiny little device. and by inventing a way to squeeze stuff that hard, they say, these researchers from this lab at harvard, they say they have created a whole new thing on earth. the first element in the periodic table is hydrogen. in normal circumstances, hydrogen is a gas. if you cool it to low temperatures hydrogen becomes a liquid. if you cool it down more than that it can becom

tonight a look back at the greatest show on earth. "nightly news" begins now. >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is ""nbc nightly news"" with kate snow. >>> good evening. much of the middle section of this country has been struggling with ice and freezing rain all weekend long. that storm now blamed for six deaths across three states. it's far from over. 13 states are under winter weather alerts tonight as the system shifts north. we begin with blake mccoy in kansas city. >> reporter: up to an inch of ice blanketing parts of oklahoma, trees cracking under the weight, power out for thousands as this three-day ice storm deposits a trail of frozen danger across several states. >>> in nebraska today, a fiery scene when two semitrucks crashed on i-80 near kearney. one jack knifed, the other erupted in flames. those in kansas showing an outof control ice. >> now state troopers are asking people to stay home as hundreds more remain without power. >> reporter: two kansas state troopers were hit while in their car

and this makes us special among the nations of the earth.ur government has no power except that granted it by the people. it is time to check and reverse the growth of government, which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed. it is my intention to curb the size and influence of the federal establishment and to demand recognition of the distinction between the powers granted to the federal government and those reserved to the states or to the people. all of us need to be reminded that the federal government did not create the states, the states created the federal government. now, so there will be no misunderstanding, it's not my intention to do away with government. it is rather to make it work, work with us, not over us, to stand by our side, not ride on our back. government can and must provide it,rtunity, not smother foster productivity, not stifle it. if we look to the answer as to why for so many years we achieved so much, prospered as no other people on earth, it was because here in this land we unleashed the en