gordon cooper's?ter saying it was. >> this scratch right here -- that's the smoking gun. >> houston, we have a problem. it takes precious days to solve the mystery. the key clue comes when the auction house compares rick's camera with the one wally schirra took into space the year before cooper's flight. >> our forensic expert, with photographic evidence, was able to find scuff marks that matched exactly to schirra's camera. this is schirra's camera, taken in 1962, and it matches exactly to the one that rick bought. >> so, rick thought he was buying gordon cooper's space camera, but he was really buying wally schirra's. but how could that be? >> they took home each other's things, but both astronauts sold their cameras believing that this was schirra's and this was cooper's. >> far from being a problem, it turns out to be a good thing. schirra was the first guy to take it up in space. this is the most famous hasselblad there is. >> so, wait a minute. that sounds like it's worth more. >> it is worth a

cooperative ones. >> the new secretary of state anthony blinken says china will be our biggest problem right now. and right now, ships are steaming through the south shine see and some seeing that provocative. gordonina challenge? they might be relieved that is that donald trump isn't in the white house. but they are clearly drawing some lines with the new president. what are they telling him? >> i think what they're trying to do is find out how tough biden is. these aerial exercises in taiwan saturday and sunday are interpreted in the region as a challenge to biden. many people in the u.s. are saying the same thing. china challenges new u.s. presidents. they did that with george bush and barack obama with military provocations that were dangerous. they didn't do it with donald trump because i think they were afraid of him. we know from comments from members of the chinese elite that they're not afraid of biden. this is a very dangerous time. you have leaders in china that are arrogant and they think they can push us around. >> neil: you think that would return to the provocative stuff like they used to do, militarizing islands and getting reckless on the belief that we won't respond? >> yeah, tha