melissa, who was gerard kiper? >> he's an astronomer and fascinating character in my book. because he came to tucson in about 1960, and he was the only one with at the time who was really interested in studying the moon and the planet. so at the time astronomers were very interested and distancing galaxy and nebula that were far we an there were few people interested at all in study the moon it was close, it was boring. you can see it pretty clearly through a telescope there wasn't much there so gerard was only one who wanted to do that, and that became incredibly important in 1961 when suddenly the president aannounced we were going to send people to the moon. >> why did he come to tucson to study the moon? >> one with was reasons was because we have a beautiful dark desert skies, so it was already a hub of the astronomer and gerard would short isly make it a hub of planetary science quite a different field actually and my book i talk about tucson as birthplace of planetary science not only dark skies and we have clear, you know, a clear view of the planets. we have these

melissa, who was gerard kiper? >> he's an astronomer and fascinating character in my book.

. >> so giants broadcaster duane kiper came down from the booth. >> get out. >> took care of him. sat down. >> oh. >> gave him a ball. and you can't see it. but the fan, by the way, was wearing a vintage kipe giants jersey. >> no way. >> he played for the giants in 1983. '84 and '85. >> good guy. >> so cool. >> very good. >> thank you. >>> coming up in our next half- hour, an oakland man charged for allegedly trying to help isis. plus sean spicer is out as white house press secretary. a communication shake-up at the white house. >> why a headliner of music is upset with a venue. >> and rescue on the east river, a small seaplane makes an emergency watering landing in new york. 811 is a free service to keep our community safe. before you do any project big or small, pg&e will come out and mark your gas and electric lines so you don't hit them when you dig. call 811 before you dig, and make sure that you and your neighbors are safe. 81 awnera free service to keep our community safe. to make sure that you identify where your utilities are if you are gonna do any kind of excavation no