and they also managed to get nasa to get would only nasa could refer to as her restraints.d armbands. but it was not just nasa or the press. when the original launch date was moved back a couple of months to accommodate a schedule change johnny carson joke on the tonight show that the space shuttle had been delayed so that sally ride could get a purse to match your shoes. i have screened all of the johnny carson jokes. they only got worse. there were awful, frat house banks. i am happy to tell you that the audience overtime ignored him and then started booing him. the idea of an american woman in space have gone from becoming a priceline to a matter of national pride. the entire nation was riding with sally when she lifted off in june of 1983. just before she went i got my 1-on-1 interview, the one the ec in the video. and i asked for, look, do you feel under any special pressure because you are the first american moment? and she said, yes, i do. i feel pressure not to mess up. what she meant was she felt pressure not to mess up her crew. in the space mission is a group eff

and they also managed to get nasa to get would only nasa could refer to as her restraints. armbands. but it was not just nasa or the press. when the original launch date was moved back a couple of months to accommodate a schedule change johnny carson joke on the tonight show that the space shuttle had been delayed so that sally ride could get a purse to match your shoes. i have screened all of the johnny carson jokes. they only got worse. there were awful, frat house banks. i am happy to tell you that the audience overtime ignored him and then started booing him. the idea of an american woman in space have gone from becoming a priceline to a matter of national pride. the entire nation was riding with sally when she lifted off in june of 1983. just before she went i got my 1-on-1 interview, the one the ec in the video. and i asked for, look, do you feel under any special pressure because you are the first american moment? and she said, yes, i do. i feel pressure not to mess up. what she meant was she felt pressure not to mess up her crew. in the space mission is a group effo

she wanted to do well for nasa.ed to do well for the united states and she wanted to do well for the future of human spaceflight but overall i think she wanted to do well for women because she understood that if she messed up that would be said that no one -- no woman can play again because one woman messed up. she understood she did well that would open the door for the rest of them and listen to this comment from a female astronaut from a later generation and women by the name of kamala overy who not only flew but commanded the space shuttle, one of the few women to have done that. here's what she says. she says it wasn't until after it became an astronaut i discovered the most important gift that sally gave me which was that she was tremendously competent. the reputation of everyone who comes after you depends on how well you do. sally opened those doors and smooth the path for all women because she was very good at what she did. i think that's really the secret of why this mission was so important and why her ch

and they also managed to get nasa to get would only nasa could refer to as her restraints. recall and armbands. but it was not just nasa or the press. when the original launch date was moved back a couple of months to accommodate a schedule change johnny carson joke on the tonight show that the space shuttle had been delayed so that sally ride could get a purse to match your shoes. i have screened all of the johnny carson jokes. they only got worse. there were awful, frat house banks. i am happy to tell you that the audience overtime ignored him and then started booing him. the idea of an american woman in space have gone from becoming a priceline to a matter of national pride. the entire nation was riding with sally when she lifted off in june of 1983. just before she went i got my 1-on-1 interview, the one the ec in the video. and i asked for, look, do you feel under any special pressure because you are the first american moment? and she said, yes, i do. i feel pressure not to mess up. what she meant was she felt pressure not to mess up her crew. in the space mission is a

she worked with nasa on many projects. she got them to put a camera in space first on the shuttle and then on the space station and hooked it in with kids classrooms so that youngsters could sit in the classroom punch buttons and take pictures of parts of the year that they wanted to study. she called that one earth cam and when someone was sending up satellites to do research in orbit around them and sally put a camera on those satellites and got kids in school to be able to take pictures of women them and then she called that the moon cam. she was always giving back to kids. this is what she really wanted to do. being first was fine but she didn't want to be the only one. she wanted to awaken young female minds to the wonder of science that she had experienced that captivated her. she wanted to inspire the next generation of america's engineers and mathematicians and astronauts and she wanted to teach them that she had grown up believing that if your grill you can in fact do anything. she wanted them to see the stereotyp

this week not only more it's the anniversary of the creation of nasa but also the fiftieth anniversary of the ranger seven mission the first close up photographs of the moon taken from a spacecraft only a few years after the ranger missions now says nasa apollo eleven carried the first ever human beings to the moon the crowning achievement for humanity today however fifty six years since the establishment of the american space agency the first space walks the lunar landing the cold war race to the moon are little more than a distant memory and in their places a view of nasa as a government agency like any other subject to budget cuts layoffs and congressional scrutiny and what cuts to funding for the agency continue to threaten its future projects are moving forward that do more than just reach for new worlds in fact many of the greatest discoveries in modern science today may not have even been possible without the commissioned research of nasa scientists unfortunately there are too many misconceptions about the agency that are holding back potential discoveries that could further pro

this week not only more it's the anniversary of the creation of nasa but also the fiftieth anniversary of the ranger seven mission the first close up photographs of the moon taken from a spacecraft only a few years after the ranger missions now this is apollo eleven carried the first ever human beings to the moon crowning achievement for humanity today however fifty six years since the establishment of the american space agency the first space walks the lunar landing the cold war race to the moon are little more than a distant memory and their place is a view of nasa as a government agency like any other subject to budget cuts layoffs and congressional scrutiny and what cuts to funding for the agency continue to threaten its future projects are moving forward that do more than just reach for new worlds in fact many of the greatest discoveries in modern science today may not have even been possible without the commissioned research of nasa scientists unfortunately there are too many misconceptions about the agency that are holding back potential discoveries that could further propel hum

communications, control of these aircraft have been developed by aerospace companies working directly with nasa and through the u.s. space program. so i think that is the most obvious tangible benefit of having invested in space. there are others. there is telemetry. some biomedical telemetry basically grew out of the space program. prosthetic limbs. there are a whole range of medical inventions, devices that have come as a direct result of having made vibrant space program. people say, well, they are very expensive, the cost of those spin-offs has now been worth it. i guess it is a value judgment. it depends how you measure the value to you get for the los. offer me airline safety is worth a great deal. i am sure for you it is as well, peter. >> host: what kind of money do we spend annually on the international space station? is there a return on that investment? >> guest: well, squeeze been a decreasing amount of our gross domestic product on a. it is not like it was in the 60's when we were in the space race, if you will, where we spent up to of 4 percent of gdp. now we are well below 1%. an

that was just the beginning of her contribution to the planet and to nasa. after the challenger explosion she served on the rogers commission which investigated that. as it turns out, she became the source, an early source of the critical revelation about the o-rings and their contribution to the accident and also to the flawed management decisions that were made. nasa essentially shut down to repair the system and reconfigure the program. selling moved here to washington where she undertook a major study at nasa headquarters to help determine the future of the space agency. that is the one in which she recommended first something called mission to planet earth which was treating earth as an exotic plant the same way we look at mars and venus and everything else out there and a spending some of our vast energy and wisdom on fixing what is going on here, not only before but at the same time as we are going other places. this was a huge step forward over the years she served on other commissions and also on the investigative commission when the columbia disint

nasa was very much involved and it never would have happened without nasa. once i made that realization i took all the credit. thank you very much. glad you like that. i designed it myself. but i saw something, some excitement that i have not seen in a while. that was really interesting. i started looking around at what was happening, this new initiative that nasa was taking to involve the private sector more and give more freedom to the private sector to integrate. i saw all this innovation happening. i saw companies doing really great work. i knew that this was a promise for a really bright future in space. this is where progress was going to happen, and i wanted to be a part of it. something was very difficult. i voluntarily stopped being an astronaut. that was a really great cake, but i voluntarily stepped away from that and said, want to sign up with spacex. i've been here for three and a half years working on turning the space craft that we used to take cargo of to the space station into a human-carrying vehicle. this is what it looked like. you compar

philanthropies are working with nasa. commercial companies are working with nasa.atyou about getting back from mars? >> if you only go to the orbit then getting back is easy. if you land on the surface that is part of why getting there is so hard. you have to land all the things that you need to get back off the surface. if you could land equipment to make your rocket fuel on the surface of mars, that is enabling. it is hard to land our rocket fuel on mars and then take off with that fuel. you have to make it while you are there. >> you have in planning your own trip to mars for the better part of two decades. why? why do want to go so badly? >> i think going there really involves doing something that is so hard that is worthy of america. part that a lot of people miss about the space program. america needs those kind of hard technical challenges, both to spur innovation but to inspire kids into the sciences and to show what amazing things can be done with science and technology. it is all about making america strong. >> how does a business model differ? there was

take life in. >> dubois: nasa is in a new space race. it says a decision is imminent on which company will build the next-generation vehicle for sending astronauts into space. as manuel bojorquez reports, that's made for some intense competition. >> reporter: this is boeing's simulator for the cst-100, the capsule it hopes will ferry americans into space. boeing is one of three companies cempeting to build the successor to the space shuttle. a $4 billion contract is at stake. john mulholland heads boeing's program. there's a lot on the line here. >> absolutely. human space flight has been at our core since day one, all the way back to mercury, gemini, apollo, the shuttle, the station. >> reporter: so you have that history there. >> yeah, and it's provided a lot of benefit to us just to have that experience that we can bring to bear. >> reporter: a competing design looks a lot like the space shuttle. it's called the dream chaser, and it's built by sierra nevada. the company has made parts for probes and satellites, but mark sirangelo told

in the case of petty end o betto other wives in the fire, debbie ended up saving nasa's -- sueing nasa's and as a result she was basically ostracized from together as bill by the other astronauts and the astronauts lives for not touting the party line for going against the company organization. pat weitz was a tragic story. she never really got over her husband after apollo one and when they were planning a reunion years later she actually committed suicide and they saw her as a final tragedy of the apollo one fire. so a lot of heartache in this story. but just incredible american moments that were not seen as necessarily input to report back then because we were not as focused on the fact as behind every great man is a great form in or behind every moonwalk or there is a strong woman waiting on earth and it is just a whole another sort of constellation perspective on what it took to get to the moon. do we have any of your questions? >> it could be your next book three of how do the children fare in that kind of upbringing? >> as i talked to many of the kids it was sort of growing up in

well, over the weekend, folks, america finally got some good nasa news. >> nasa's space rover on mars making some news of its own on sunday driving 25 mile, setting a new record for the longest off-earth driving distance since it arrived in mars in 2004. >> stephen: which is why i'm giving a tip of the hat to nasa for their feat of off planet road off-roading. that's quite an achievement, folks. because as the rover's project manager said, opportunity was only intended to drive about one kilometer. so basically about as much as a chevy cobalt. but what really has me excited about this new record is the record it broke which had been held by the soviet union's remote controlled lunokhod 2 rover which covered 24.2 miles on the upon back in 1973. which explains why opportunity used its 25 miles of tire tracks to spell out suck it, vlad! (cheers and applause) >> stephen: we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] kellogg's krave! a totally different breed of chocolate cereal. wicked crunch outside. smooth chocolate inside. krave cereal! take the dare to krave challenge on facebook, if you da

that changed with the nasa kepler mission. if you extrapolate a planets, a few thousand planets they discovered, if you extrapolate on that trillion planets in the mill which way galaxy, those are a trillion more planets than there are stars. so a lot of places for life. >> okay. >> i think it also affected sperms, in a sense in the past we would point telescopes in the direction of stars, certain kinds of stars. certain masses of stars. . . >> well, dr. shostak, would you please provide some examples of the technical contributions that seti has made to other fields? how has seti research benefited other areas of science? >> well, i think that its benefit is less so in terms of the discovery. obviously, we haven't found e.t.. if we had, we wouldn't be having this hearing, okay? but, and to my surprise, seti has not turned up any astrophysical phenomena that were astonishing as well. and that ease surprising. normal lily, every time you build an instrument, it examines a different parameter in the space base of the universe. yo

you are formerly with nasa. this is a european effort. what was your reaction when you saw that the rosetta spacecraft made its ten-year journey? yesterday i described it as a romance story. it's been this probe pursuing this partner for moeshre than a decade, and now they're dancing together. i wonder if your reaction was romantic. >> oh, absolutely. this is fantastic. this is a huge deal, something that's never been done before, and it's a big step. >> now, this is a single comet. i guess it's nicknamed tory. what can we learn? what can this single thing flying out there in space teach us about our own origins? >> the sensors and probes aboard the spacecraft will be able to tell us more about what the composition is especially in november after the lander is deployed, and we anticipate it will successfully land and shoot a harpoon into the surface so it can anchor itself there and then make more measurements. we'll learn a lot more about what it's like or what the composition of comets like this are like. so it's going to be huge from a

neither does nasa.y have 2 million since the 1960s. >> so you simply going to crowdcrafting.org, right? >> mm-hmm. >> there's an app called dark sky. so you can see on our computer screen, they want us to figure out what this image is right here. which looks like a not very clear one. so we would -- how would you classify this one? >> as either black or i don't know. what i'm looking at -- >> let's say i don't know. we're not sure what we're looking at. we're supposed to go to the next page. >> it will have all the photos that they take on a regular basis. just say is it sharp, blurry? is it something at night? >> go through a series of questions. so now after we said that, it says how clear is the image? and this of course is all subjective? if it's me or you or whomever. >> exactly, although they're basic questions. you can usually get a feel for what that image might be or what that series of images. because really they don't take one. they take usually the astronauts, you know, dozens of photos of t

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the research group before nasa. they wanted him in mercury and were disappointed they didn't want him. he had every reason to believe he would be chief pilot. but he realized if i go on space as it is going to be on top of a rocket. he was glad to see gemini 9. >> host: i am not sure he had the opportunity to apply in '58. >> guest: they did so much behind the scenes and you had so much speculation and it was so hard to cut through that. people came up and said the reason alan shepherd was selected to be the first in space is because he was navy and john f. kennedy was navy but no. this is the type of stuff that gets going. neal was against that totally. this is one of the reasons he steered away from the present. he left the program and went to nasa. next door neighbor with ed white who was the first to walk in space. >> host: that was a strong group. i heard other astronauts say they thought the nine was the strongest group. even stronger than the mercury. >> guest: oh, yeah. they were better qualified but the fac

i'm minutes away from boarding this plain with nasa experimentalists. it is a nasa gc-8, trying to measure the pollution and the atmosphere. it's a three pronged attack. the signs of the tc 8, after the u 2 spy plane. the er 2 application is a sight to see. everything about it has the feeling of a flight to space. the men who fly the plane undergo special training and wear a pressurized flight soot. several weather probes collect the information and beam it back to earth. >> seated, door closed. >> the men and women are learning more about climate change and the role humans play in it. >> ready for taxi. >> airport bound. >> it's 9:00 a.m., everyone's seated and it's wheels up. on board, it's like a candy shop of technology inside this flying laboratory. they've got all the high tech tools from lasers to spectrometers and canisters and gases everything to measure the chemistry in the sky. the man at the center of it all, mission director walt kline. why is this mission so important? >> because if we don't do anything about it we're just going to continu

was with him out there as the research before nasa.all of those guns together. the new deal. they all felt that kneele was a step above the air force of the navy guys. i think he was. he would never tell you he thought he was. so they've really wanted him. there were disappointed. he's thinking, he had every reason to believe that he would be chief press pilot of a kristine. but then when he saw shepherd go up and of course when gary and went before that and realize, of going to go. is going to be on top of rocket. when it came around to filling out the job 99 he did. he was glad to see it. >> i think eisenhower actually specified. given an opportunity to apply. >> i don't know if they were saying you couldn't be. they did so much behind the scenes. in the head so much speculation. it was so hard to cut through that. people came up and said is likely to be the first in space. john f. kennedy. >> this is the type of stuff you get. and neil, you know, he was a despot. was one of the reasons why he steered away. it did not hate the presid

just nasa.e original launch date was moved back a couple of dates , johnny carson joke on the "tonight show" that the shuttle was going to be delayed because sally ride had to find a purse to match her shoes. of allt was the funniest of his jokes that continued for a solid year before sally flew. i am happy to report -- i watch all of the videotapes of these old shows. i'm happy to report that the audience kind of laughed at the first one and over the years there was less laughter, there was silence, and toward the end there were boos. the idea of america's first woman in space had gone from being a punchline to a matter of national pride, and i think a huge amount of that is the way sally ride herself handled herself with such integrity and such wit throughout the situation. weargot to the point when she finally launched, the whole world was riding with her. the networks had one-on-one interviews with the astronauts before they flew, and in my one-on-one with sally, i said to her -- do you feel

next a nasa documentary detailing the first mission to land two men on the moon.followed by the story of the construction of the hoover dam. in an hour a 1960 interview with he herbert hoover and that's all ahead on american history tv here on cspan 3. ahead here on 3. >>> this labor this labor day on the cspan networks on cs parks n at 5:30 eastern on education department summit on bullying in schools. 8:00, bill nye the science guy and ken ham debate evolution. on cspan 2's book tv, 7:00 eastern congressman james clibern talks about his life in the jim crow south to his leadership, at 8:30 her book price of fame about play write and diplomat, on cspan 3's american history tv at 7:15 eastern time looks at documents at the 1964 tonkan insipped inct led to the vietnam war. find our television schedule at cspan.org and let us know what you think about the programs you're watching. call us at 202-262-3400. on twitter use the #c 123 or e-mail us at comments at cspan.org. join the cspan conversation. like us on facebook. follow us on twitter. comments sc >>> each week

. >>> leading the news, on nbc news.com nasa green lights giants sls rocket but launch slips to 2018.is expected to cost about $7 billion from now until its liftoff. nasa wants to use the sls to sendas naults to an asteroid by 2025, and to mars and its moon into 2030. >>> in the u.k.'s daily mail scientists managed reverse bad memories by blasting brain cells with light. m. i.t. scientists experimenting with myself have discovered the brain pathway that links memory to emotion. experts say the research could one day be the treatment for post traumatic stress or phobias. >>> some other stories we're following here. intolerant, lacking in compassion, stuck in the past. those are some of the scathing ways in which women are describing the gop. the results were obtained from a large scale product about women's views of the party. the report also says virtually 50% of women have an unfavorable view of the gop compared to 39% who have an unfavorable view of democrats. the project was commissioned by conservative groups, crossroads gps and american action network. >>> and in the u.k. imagine

next a nasa documentary detailing the first mission to land two men on the moon. that's fold by the story of the construction of the hoover dam. in an hour a 1960 interview with herbert hoover who discusses life beyond his presidency. and later u.s. army captain william johnston with his work on the republic of vietnam in the 1960s. that's all ahead here on c-span 3. >>> this labor day, on this c-span network, on c-span at 5:30 eastern an education department summit on bullying in schools. at 8:00, bill nye the science guy and ken hamm debate evolution. on c-span's 2 book tv james clyburn talks about his life from his youth in the jim crow south to his leadership position in the house of representatives. at 8:30 author civil a dukes morris on her book "price of fame." at 10:00 p.m. arthur lewis discusses the hidden world of high frequency stock trading. on c-span 3's american history tv at 7:15 p.m. eastern time, american artifacts look at declassified documents related to the 1964 gulf of tonkin. at 8:00, president warren hardings's love letters. and then that's

. >> as mike is here to explain a scientist who worked for nasa is work on a different system that hes could warn you of anarch days before it happens. >>> places like napa and facing millions in damage and the extra time could make a world of damage. >> sunday struck without warning 6.30 centered south of napa. the warning system proposed by the governor brown would only activate after an evening started give people a second notice by nasa scientists says he can do better working on an early detection system giving people days of warning ahead of anarch a game changer for anyone living in anarch zone. >>> we can try where earthquakes will occur and we will know two weeks ahead time this is 90-plus earthquake probability that it will ham in a couple of miles of where we say it will happen. >>> a broad warning zone to a city or county would be better thanking in. advance notice could give emergency folks time to get resources if place of with the earthquake rather than after. it is up to the emergency officials to decide whether it warrants an alert. this is how it works, based on chan

nasa mission is reaching the culmination of a decade's worth of work. >> the u.s.space agency is supporting the marzieh afkham --the rosetta probe as it tries to land on a comet. >> we have to characterize the comment, characterize it, learn how to fly, find a landing site, and then you are ready for landing in november. >> rosetta will be 60 miles away fromhe comet as it makes its observations to learn more about the stars, and planets. clouds are moving into the region. >> apple made a huge splash with their is an -- with the there campaign, and now there is a shoe for that. there are two applications. >> fans and critics on social media are speculating it could be ironic, but the company is not commenting on its intentions just yet. >> you might need more than a stellar know for the rain we are going to get today -- stiletto for the rain that we are going to get. >> not all of us will get wet today. 40% chance, but be ready for it to linger into the evening commute. [d[dramatic music] ♪ >> hey! what's up, fella? what's up? what up? what's up, dog? [cheers and ap

nasa can't even keep track of them. moonlight sonata, and "fly me to the moon" "new moon." pink floyd's classic "dark side of the moon." number four. the howl, the legend of ware wolfe, it dates back to the greek god. the man on the moon nasa says, what we see from earth looks like a face because of basins filled with dark rock. sorry, scientists, i beg to differ. is that? yep, that's what i think it is. do you have any suggestions for five things, please, send them our way. and that wraps up this hour on msnbc. thank you for the privilege of your time. in the next hour on "newsnation." police will hold a news conference after one of their officers shot and killed an unarmed black teen outside st. louis. plus, live report on the new developments out of iraq. as easy as it gets. wouldn't it be great if hiring plumbers, carpenters and even piano tuners were just as simple? thanks to angie's list, now it is. start shopping online from a list of top-rated providers. visit angieslist.com today. fancy feast broths. they're irresistabowl... completely unbelievabowl... totally dele