want to introduce greg olson to you. he was the third paying person to fly to the international space station. greg wen up via soyuz rocket in i think it was 2005 or 2006? >> five. >> 2005. he reportedly paid $20 million or more or less -- [laughter] more than my virgin galactic flight. but greg did some real experiments. he's founded a company called sensors unlimited. bought it, sold i want, made a n of money. but this guy is a real science geek as well as a businessn. and io want to say he's also a ham radio operator. he has contacted earth from the space station himself which we're going to do the opposite of in about 40 minutes up in the trophy room. and i just want to say greg is a nice guy. his capsule that a came back from -- that came back from space, the tuneny little soyuz -- tiny little soyuz capsule with three guys is in the intrepiduseum so if you ever want to see it and see how small itas wow. anyway, greg olson. >> thank you. [applause] thank you. i realize i stand between you and lunch so i'm going to tr

come out today to this great event, for the ham radio contact, from presenters, walt cunningham, greg olson and charlie duke, i want to thank everyone that cochaired this with me and it would not have happened without them. i'm sure there are a lot of people i can think. brian henson came all the way from texas by himself. that's the cool. becky nichols, alan nichols presidents wife is back there. becky is always here. just everybody thank you so much. the explorers club is a cool place. come and see us. we don't just do space stuff. we do see, ocean -- primates. i'm a space nut, so i don't know what else we do. a big hand for charlie duke. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> c-span is standing by to take you live to the white house briefing room for the first reading of 2015. running a little behind schedule. this was supposed to start at 1:00 eastern time. >> good afternoon, everybody. nice to see you all. i hope you are feeling as rested and recharged as many of us at the wh

we will hear from what cunningham on the space race, then greg olson talks about what life is life on the international space station. tomorrow night on book tv, the focus is on feminism. discussions of feminism and american women's movements. then katie pavlich. later, deborah road. that is tomorrow night at 8:00 eastern on c-span 2. >> the c-span cities to her takes book tv and american history tv on the road, traveling to u.s. cities to learn about their history and literary life. we partnered with time warner cable for a visit to austin texas. >> we are in a private sutiuite of lyndon johnson. these were the private quarters -- they were not part of a tour. this has never been open to the public. you are seeing it because of c-span's special access. the mps come into this space as they did in lyndon johnson's day. the remarkable thing about this space is that it is really a living, breathing artifact. it hasn't changed at all since president johnson died in january, 1973. there is a document in the corner of this room, it tells my predecessors and my successors that nothing in thi