we at nasa don't need to do that. we just need to do the --. >> if you could get this committee a cost analysis about how that will be more cost-effective given the investment we have already made in restore al. can you provide that to the committee? >> i would be glad to. >> let me ask you about the peace mission because this is a mission decide to get important information about the oceans especially with respect to the health of various fisheries and it's important to all the coastal areas in the united states. my question is given your budget proposes to zero out the peace mission how do you propose we get that important information for our coastal economies? do we have a couple of other opportunities? >> let me explain the way we made our decisions. we did a programmatic assessment as you know pace was not in the decade goes. pace was. we think there's a way to get that data differently and we want to see how the science comes out in 2018. pace and a couple of others because they won't perform as well in a couple

let's talk about nasa, 59th anniversary of nasa. what role does nasa play now? when the space shuttles ended, a lot of people, including me when i was there for the final daytime launch, it made me sad because we grew up with nasa. >> it made me sad too. that was the end of a 30-year era and that was the only method america had to put astronauts into space so the only vehicle is the russian soyuz, still the only vehicle today. but it was also kind of necessary to herald in this great new era. we now have both as you were mentioning some of the big traditional companies like boeing with their cst 100, nasa with its orion capsule, spacex with the dragon capsule and sierra nevada with their dream chaser, all these capabilities coming back online. we're not only back in the leadership position again but we have a full spectrum of vehicles from government and private industry that are going to lead us into the future. >> and that is the right mix? when i think of public-private partnerships that we see on the infrastructure side, can you have private industry handle

i thought okay, were nasa, we can figure this out. they rush me to the hospital there's a doctor named bobby l fred who is it your nose and throat doctor, one of the best in houston. they want to do, they want to try and find out what happened and they operate, they go in and they start pressing on these two windows and they thought there was this fistula where the fluid leaking out of the area and you press on it and everything is attached. i have this picture in the book where all the doctors, it's right after the surgery and all the doctors have their heads down there trying to, i don't know what's going on. my sisters there and all the communication i do after the surgery, they are through these yellow legal pads. that's my way of medicating with people. all my friends are here, hey man, what's up. so anyway, i have this big legal pad and they said they couldn't find anything, we don't know what happened to you. at that moment when everyone leaves, i'm trying to figure out what's going on. i start watching the movie good will hunt

nasa's job really is exploration and science. nasa will continue doing that. it is true that we are seeing a lot of advances in commercial space launch companies like spacex. some of the incumbents are making advances in their space launch capabilities. that will supplement what nasa does an asset is already buying from these companies. space launch is a commercial item. that will continue, but nasa's core job will remain one of exploration and trying to push the boundaries of human knowledge. host: but in another call from felix in florida. isler: all right, my comment presidentbefore reagan wanted to put platforms for nuclear weapons which he called star wars, the russians had already come up with a satellite that went around destroying their satellite, which made reagan's idea totally ignorant. capabilityy have the to destroy satellites. host: let's get reactions from todd harrison. we have not talked about the whole idea from the reagan administration on the so-called star wars defense. that: the star wars system reagan proposed lis was to intercept missil

what is your comment on nasa, its mission -- i was in congress, i supported nasa, but i felt like it's foundry does not have the support of the american people that is needed. what is your comment on nasa, its mission, and what advice would you give us? elon: first of all i should say i am a big fan of nasa. at one point my password was "ilove nnasa." >> [laughter] elon: nasa does a lot of good things which does not get enough credit, and that the public does not know much about. most members of the public art into hard science. -- aren't into hard science. it is not the thing they are tuning in for most of the time. i am into hard science. it is not that popular. there are great things in terms of the telescopes, like the humble and -- hubble and james webb and rovers on mars, and probes in the outer solar system. those are really great things. but to get the public excited you have to get people in the picture. it is just 100 times different if there are people in the picture. is some criticism of nasa, you want people in the picture if you want public support. if you talk to a scien

>> the password was i love nasa. -- nasa does a lot of good gives for which it doesn't -- doesn't get enough credit. they are not really into hard science, it is not the thing they are tuning in for. it's not that popular. but there are great things in terms of the telescopes, like the hubble and the james webb. the probes to the outer solar system, those are really great things. to get the public excited you need to get the people in the picture. it is just 100 times different when there are people in the picture. if there is some criticism of picture, if in the you want to get the public support. to a scientist, where is the science and that? that's not what people are giving you money. the serious scientists, people just make things more expensive. so why do we have people at all, anywhere? sometimes the scientists are the ones who don't understand. you got to have something that is going to fire people loved and get them really excited. i think of we had a serious goal of having a base on the moon and sending people to mars and said how are we going to do this? we have to change t

nasa retired the space shuttle in 2011.have a wonderful space station that goes overhead in every 90 minutes. since 2011 we haven't had a way to get our people up there even though we paid for most of it. which is kind of a problem. we've been buying rides for the russians on soyuz spacecraft, which iconically designed to beat us to the moon when we were flying apollo. it didn't succeed in that. but has been successful spacecraft since then of the when we retired the shuttle, fees on the soyuz is 38 million. now it is 85. it is not like the fuel has gotten more expensive. it is just what the market will bear. a lot of people are not very happy about this. nasa, among other things are building a space launch system. known as sls. some circles the senate launch system they like to call it. this is a saturn v class rocket that would do probably many things that the saturn v would do. we can go back to the moon with it. if we launch number of them we can assemble a spacecraft to go to mars. there is a lot of uses for it. the pr

doing these difficult things that nasa does, they generally take time.usually longer than any single president's term, so when we make a commitment to do something, you know, we've got smart people in this country, the smartest on the planet, the best scientists and engineers. if we set a goal and fund nasa at an appropriate level, we can do these things. we can send somebody to mars in the 2030s if that's our goal. >> wouldn't that be incredible? thank you for being here, appreciate you being here. >> thanks for having me on, really appreciate it. >> for more on apollo 11's university, go to msnbcnews.com. that does it for us this hour. thank you so much for joining me. you can follow me on social media at any time. my colleague richard lui coming up next. ♪ only tylenol® rapid release gels have laser drilled holes. they release medicine fast, for fast pain relief. tylenol® even if you're trying your best.be a daily struggle, along with diet and exercise, once-daily toujeo® may help you control your blood sugar. get into a daily groove. ♪ let's groove t

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sensitive nasa stuff. above his hand, critical space flight hardware, do not touch. is this real? that is the first thing you're thinking, right? we got our hands of some video of this tour and it is legit. here's the vice president on the tour, he puts his hand on this, then throws his hands up like, oh, i realize i should not have done that. let's watch it again. listen, it is hard to hear but we are going to watch it again. [ laughter ] >> did you read the sign? >> marco rubio said, nasa is going to have to start all over. the vice president later tweeted, sorry, nasa, marco rubio dared me to do it. nasa says it's all good, no harm, no foul. before that thing gets ready for a journey into space it will have to be cleaned thoroughly again. >>> as the nats season is well underway, we keep an eye on bryce harper's bat. it has done damage already this season, 20 homeruns. diane roberts traveled to rural, pennsylvania to his at the company behind his back. >> and harper to center, way back, way back! >> repo

strike what we ask former nasa astronaut asked a physicist and space and children or. as our world becomes more familiar with what's beyond planet earth the potential dangers of space are becoming more apparent with the threat of asteroids able to wipe out entire civilizations scarily close to our atmosphere so can we count of these dangers before it's too late is humanity's existence simply a game of chance or is it in their own hands to define and protect. add lou physicists former astronaut c o b six twelve foundation welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us thank you very much for having me on now of your foundation says there's around half a million asteroids and planet earth neighborhood as big as the one that struck. in one thousand no weight which flattened two thousand square kilometers of forest on impact i mean i've heard warnings and massive spacewalk could reach us by october twenty seventeen so how big does an asteroid have to be to flatten a city well the one that we saw and. in one thousand know it was only about forty meters across and

we put this together with help from our friends at nasa goddard. you can link on to nasa's. what you're looking for is 2017 eclipse.nasa.gov. that's their website. you can get to -- going through our app and our website. on august 21st the eclipse here. so if you want to see the whole thing, you're going to need to do a little driving. you have to go down to the western carolinas. the total eclipse goes to charleston south carolina. it will be off the coast of charleston about 3:00 or 3:30 in the afternoon. you'll need to leave before that monday. because it's going to be a lot of traffic on the roads. you'll have to head down there probably that weekend before and plan to be where you watch that eclipse on monday and plan to be there on monday morning. it's hot and steamy for the weekend coming up. >> thanks so much. >>> get to that hot and steamy. lauryn ricketts is here with the forecast. >> we're getting ourselves into trouble. remember, we're on camera now. microphones. >> happy friday. >> that's my cue to keep going. >> let's go ahead and run that storm team 4 weather

and, finally, a former nasa scientist to build a super soaker, giant sized. former nasa scientist tozed. it former nasa scientist to build a super soaker, giant sized. it is so big you will at least see him coming. almost everyone in the world who works pays tax on the money they earn, but at this restaurant in san francisco there are no waiting staff and robots plate the food. that work is currently not taxable and politicianjane kim is now looking into how this is changing the city's economy. so what we're seeing is after automation that you can hire less people in order to deliver products maybe quicker and more affordably. but it's one of the questions that we have, it's true this is really convenient, but at what cost? it's notjust restaurants, this picture is now seen across the city, from hotels and hospitals to the latest addition to the autonomous family, self—driving cars. policy makers have noticed, every time a robot takes human job, potential tax revenue is being lost. the research is showing us thatjobs are going to get lost over the next ten years and if before the gre

el dice que se encomendÓ a sus creenciasen el proceso de solicitud de la nasa.l prÓximo paso era esperar si su nombre quedarÍa entre los finalistas y llegÓ la noticia. >>los niÑos estaban en la escuela y recibÍ la llamada reportera: no sabÍan que su padre habÍa pisado la nasa. >> estaban sorprendidos y feliz de la vida. reportera: se certificaron tanto para sacar adelante a su familia. >>no me imaginÉ que él saliera fuera de la tierra. si me imaginÉ que iba a hacer algo. reportera: el mundo estÁ apunto de cambiar. su historia comenzÓ escribirse a 200 km al oriente de san salvadorsu futuro podrÍa llevarlo al planeta marte. reportera: hay un sin nÚmero de tapas de aprendizaje y muchos retos. >>aprender robÓtica, caminos del espacio. se tiene que aprender ruso la otra lengua de la estaciÓn. reportera: quÉ es lo que mÁs te preocupas. >>lo que mÁs me intimida es el tiempo que una pierde con la familia. creo que va hacer por lo -1 aÑo. >>te has imaginado en su momento en que ves a esa tierra que se va achicando? >> siempre he podido poner los elementos al lado. report

>> the password was i love nasa. -- nasa does a lot of good gives for which it doesn't -- doesn't getcredit. they are not really into hard science, it is not the thing they are tuning in for. it's not that popular. but there are great things in terms of the telescopes, like the hubble and the james webb. the probes to the outer solar system, those are really great things. to get the public excited you need to get the people in the picture. it is just 100 times different when there are people in the picture. if there is some criticism of picture, if in the you want to get the public support. to a scientist, where is the science and that? that's not what people are giving you money. the serious scientists, people just make things more expensive. so why do we have people at all, anywhere? sometimes the scientists are the ones who don't understand. you got to have something that is going to fire people loved and get them really excited. i think of we had a serious goal of having a base on the moon and sending people to mars and said how are we going to do this? we have to change the way c

have projects which monitors space objects so why do you need your own private project to do this is nasa has program not enough. no the programs done by ness and other telescopes are around the world are fantastic and they are presently aiming to their next goal is to find the asteroids larger than one hundred meters that could hit the earth now one hundred meter asteroid would destroy a small country it's quite large these surveys these telescopes will not do as well for asteroids smaller than that however as we just mentioned a forty meter asteroid is enough to destroy a very large city so there are going to be a lot of esther as in fact the great majority of estrades that could do damage on earth are actually smaller than one hundred meters and would not be found by these current surveys or these these planned surveys so our goal at b six twelve foundation is to figure out technology to find and track these smaller asteroids right now you know i say a joke about how asteroids are nature's way of stimulating a nation space program but saying i think you're doing this on your own it see

nasa issued guidelines for viewing next month's total eclipse which will be visible in 14 states fromto south carolina. viewing the eclipse with the naked eye or telescope could severely damage your eye and scientist says the safe way to use it is so-called ellipse glasses. >> lots of place sell solar filters that you just cover your eyes with, and it cuts out 99% of the light and it's safe for your eyes. but usually what people do is put a little pin hole in a piece of paper and it will project the eclipse on the ground. >> it's being called the great american eclipse. it will take place on august 21st. it will be partially visual here in california. this is the first total solar eclipse from the u.s. main land since 1979. >> nasa researchers are asking for people who are skilled in oragami to help them design radiation shields. shields that can be folded up and easily stored and maybe used on future missions to mars. this is one example that was sent in. nasa says radiation shield was need today protect astronauts from dangerous radiation on mars, but protect their equipment. >>> go

it was three for three this week when nasa successfully tested a mega rocket that they hope will power deep space exploration this santa space center in mississippi paid host to the milestone making test of nasa as last or space launch rocket engines system rocket engines which will launch crew in large amounts of cargo to deep space including the long planned missions to mars known as the world's most powerful rocket it is actually based on the r s twenty five engine which we use for thirty years to lift space shuttles and orbit the rockets engines will provide more than two million pounds of thrust and when combined with a pair of standard solid rocket boosters could get up to eight million pounds of thrust this marriage of something old something new something borrowed and something blue surely shows how looking to our past could hold the key to our future and truly wish to visit again we were talking with billingsley earlier today as the reason we do these stories on this show is because we want to show people that look what happens when everyone gets along and you put great minds

and does this give you new energy there at nasa?been doable for a very long time from a technical standpoint. i mean, i like to say we've been 20 years from mars since 1969, since apollo 11. we assumed by 1990 we would be on mars. technically we've had the ability to create spacecraft to go there. there's biomedical issues but with some waivers and consent forms, we could bypass that. we could go to mars very quickly if there's an astronaut and funding. >> how long is that, very quickly, in terms of being able to launch, if you got to go right now, got the check? >> right, okay, if we had all the funding needed, we did apollo from zero to moon in ten years, we could do this in 15 to 20 years. yeah, if we had the money for the program, it could be done relatively quickly. >> that's interesting, i guess, in nasa time frame 15 to 20 years is relatively quickly. old is new again? it's been really interesting to watch how new technologies are also old technologies and we just had the great report coming out of houston. your reflection on

nasa hopes to have the dart ready by october of 2022.people in the town of haz let michigan have a favorite mascot. the tradition start nearly 30 years ago for collin campbell when he was a runner. campbell can be seen along a popular road every day with an american flag in hand and a pup by his side, he's a marine corp veteran who want to show people passing by how much he loves his country >> i want to see if someone would honk at somebody they didn't know. i wish everybody around the world a safe 4th of july and thank you for your service. >> his loyal followers created a facebook page in his honor that is liked by more than 8,000 locals and he says once he realized how many people were taking notice he started counting how many waves he could get every single day. >>> the dream ship hot air balloon took flight today on near the philadelphia art museum. it's designed by the children of america's military heros, it's traveling around the country, raising money for children fallen or disabled service members. >> the dream ship is essent

good morning from nasa goddard. for some reason, the moon and nasa look better here. we're 30 days away from the first total solar eclipse since 1918. almost 100 years since a total solar eclipse go all the way across the continent of north america. it will be visible everywhere in all alas alaska. we'll get a view of the eclipse. our view will not be 100%. a little video for you. we'll get about 80% coverage of the sun in the metro washington area. lower amounts of eclipse coverage the farther north you go. higher amounts the farther south you go. the totality goes from oregon all the way to charleston, south carolina. so the path of totality is what we're calling it, it's about a 70 mile wide strip that goes south of portland, oregon, across the plains to the western carolinas to charleston over the ocean. if you want to see the total solar eclipse, you have to drive south of here. you have 30 days to come up with a plan for where you want to be. closest to us, western carolinas. know this. the weather community, the astronomy community have been getting the word ou

nasa wants to use it to knock a dangerous asteroid off course.hopes to have it ready by october of 2022. that's whent an asteroid system is set to approach near earth. >> they hope to have it ready by then? >> let's speed it up. >> kfc sent a spicy zinger sandwich to the edge of the atmosphere last week aboard a high altitude balloon. the balloon has been slowly deflating in case he's waiting to see where the zinger will be crashing to earth. it could happen anytime, anywhere. if you haven't guessed it's a pr stunt for the new chicken sandwich. doesn't it get moldy during that time? does mold happen in space? >> i don't want to find out. >>> we told you about the development of a woolly mammoth embryo. the bay area company investing to help bring back the beast. >>> an east bay fire station closes down right before what should be a busy fourth of july. >>> new video this morning of fawns being rescued from a massive wildfire. >>> it's 4:57 in the morning. a live look outside at a peaceful >>> live breaking news. >>> the breaking news in the abe t

is he then going to deliver an address to nasa employees. this administration has already cancelled the trip to an astroid and its budget proposes eliminating some of nasa's climate change work. >>> also happening today, several activists groups are planning a sitin protest a series event of republican senators across 21 different states. they're demanding that they vote know to the republican healthcare reform bill. many conservatives say they will not vote for the plan because it's too much like the affordable care act passed by the obama administration. others say it doesn't go far enough. >>> happening today, the university of calf california will release its fall 2017 admission data. it shows you where students are coming from, demographics and a breakdown of how many students in the school each school admitted. >>> a bill to end daylight savings time actually looks like it could end up extending it. assemblyman introduced that bill. they would have to readopt saving time or push for year-round standard time. they got rid of the standar

>> i had to sneak them in because nasa doesn't allow dogs into the center, so my buddy helped me get them up to the lab and the photo lab, and had milkbones to keep them quiet until they ate the milkbones and started barking and we got the picture and the security guard came after that, but hey, we got the pic. >> all right. unfortunately, we have to leave it there and former astronaut, leyland melvin, and most importantly, having your dogs in the nasa pics. >> thank you. >> chasing space. get out there and get it. >> for more story like this, check out making of an astronaut. i want to go to quickly, if we can, with your response, daniel chick says my hometown mall is still doing well, somehow, same with the opry mills and i think we might have one more if we can get do it. peter alexander and not just peter alexander my colleague. the mall is a quarter empty and they've had lackluster traffic. difficult times. thank you so much. that does it for me this hour on msnbc. i'm jacob sob oroff. my colleague thomas roberts is coming up next. have a good night. good afternoon. i'm thomas r

. >> so at what point did nasa pick up with gerard kipersome >> very early on in the 1960s. so nasa, of course, was working on the apollo missions which going to send astronauts to the moon but missions before that that were intended to study the moon and get that information that we needed about the moon. and so in the early 1960s they started sending spacecraft called rangers up to the moon and they were hard landers what that means is essentially spacecraft that crash lands on sphafts moon, and that idea was just to get back photographs spacecraft wasn't going to survive but photos as it was going down and first several of these that they try to send were all failures. and i think it was about 1964 they decided to reare organization the whole project and they called up gerard kiper they asked him to lead this team. and so gerard kiper led team finally that got a successful ranger a ranger 7 that successfully got first close why photograph of the moon. >> another character in your book under desert skies is u.n. withcan kier who is that? >> incredibly important member of t

we will hear from a nasa astronaut, the first female commander of the international space station.t. if you like bloomberg news, check us out on the radio. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: back in the day, nasa was the only game in town when he -- when it came to u.s. space exploration. now there is spacex and blue origin. are they competitors or partners in the race to test beyond the bounds of the earth? nasa astronaut peggy whitson, holder of the record for the longest time spent in space, joined the bloomberg americas daybreak team and discussed how public and private space programs have evolved. peggy: the place we are right now, the government can do more. for instance, we are seeing some of the seed money for some of the commercial providers, spacex and orbital atk are providing cargo to the space station. hopefully in the next year or so, we will get crude supplied by spacex or boeing. i think the government commercialization is transitioning right now and it is fantastic to see the cargo coming up in all these different vehicles. i really do think it is the future because just

nasa has finally admitted that they can't afford to put humans on mars. that means more humans here. home depot. my prediction is tomorrow i think roger fetter wins his 19th major. apple is up 15% in the year. a man got stuck in an atm machine i would say he couldn't get out because bank of america is one of the best for getting it there. the man is not stuck stock is. if only jarvis was stuck in the atm. if republicans are leaving taxes in our those across are those across the board tax cuts out. think about it we are on it. with candidate and ben stein. along with gary. and look at who is here. all right kennedy, you're the one who has pointed it out. they are buckling on getting some of the things out.

jeff: nasa.etermined that according to their calculations there is going to be a huge surge in long distance travel specifically and air traffic in general over the next decade. in an effort to address that, they developed a design with lockheed martin that they say can, thanks to fluid dynamics and powerful computers can disperse the sonic boom across the fuselage of the plan so that the resulting loud, overhead -- loud hum overhead you hear is not louder than a mercedes on the highway or the din in a restaurant. carol: so many industries have been disruptive whether it is technology and health care, not a ton has changed in the aerospace industry beyond designs a place to make them more efficient. but this could be a big change because you write in this story that this advancement could make a flight going used to west coast, cut it in half. jeff: the nasa researcher leading the project on there and told our reporter, thomas black, that effectively it would have the time spent to going from new

the so-called eclipse glasses. >>> nasa researchers are asking people skilled in origami to help themdiation shields that could be used in space. nasa launched a design competition for shields that can be folded up and stored and used on future missions to mars. nasa says radiation shields are needed to protect astronauts from dangerous radiation on mars and protect their equipment. >>> the city of san jose is spreading the word of a new program that gives san jose residents free item picks up. residents are fed up with trash being dumped on their streets. neighbors surveillance cameras near buena vista park caught illegal dumping in the area. they say the city is good at cleaning it up, but that hasn't done enough to stop this from happening. >> it's getting worse and worse, and all they've done is remove the items. that is useful because they remove the junk, but it's letting more people put stuff down. i mean i know there's laws against it, but nobody's enforcing it. >> the city is hoping this new program will encourage people to schedule pickups instead of illegally dumping junk.

. >> this week marks 41 years since nasa's viking 1 spacecraft touched down on the surface of mars. >>> not sure if you know this or not but a total solar eclipse is headed our way. >> this morning, chuck bell went to green belt to get a pre-eclipse preview at the nasa goddard institute for space studies. >> coming to you from nasa goddard because we're 30 days away from the total solar eclipse here in washington, we're only getting about 80% of the sun covered so if you want to see the total eclipse, the closest drive to see it is going to be down across parts of the western carolinas. the eclipse itself will go all the way from portland, oregon, down to charleston, south carolina. if you want to me the anything and everything about the eclie, nasa sight, including how to get these great glasses and build your own eclipse viewing kit at home and go to our website. we'll have a link on the app or you can go to eclipse2017.na eclipse2017.nasa.gov. we'll tell you how to see the total eclipse 30 days from today. >> chuck mentioned people are coming from, laike, all over to book rooms and

currently, there are 44 active astronauts at nasa.y, you can be putting on a space suit or learning how to do a spacewalk. and the other day, you put on a flight suit and fly a t-38. >> it never gets boring? >> no. >> reporter: for years, astronauts train in houston, developing their knowledge and skills required for missions. part of the training, active response gravity system, known as a.r.g.o.s. nasa's technology that simulates what it's like to i got my chance to train on a.r.g.o.s. a.r.g.o.s. looks kind of scary. >> let's go it. >> reporter: we're ready if you are. >> are you ready to fly through space? >> reporter: yes. let's fly through space. wow. uh-oh. >> that's why we tether. >> what should i do? >> everything that looks like you can grab it, except for the hoses. you want to make sure you're holding on to something before you let go of something else. >> reporter: oh, no. i will try to go over here. >> try to grab ahold of the handrails. >> reporter: i'm going to fly for a second. >> a.r.g.o.s. is responding to your input

masses plan to redirect the threat -- nasa's plan to redirect the threat.lus, josh is tracking sweltering summer temps. kimberly: firefight quite a tough battle this morning. the fire damaged at least four homes. so far, no injuries have been reported. about 80 firefighters were called out to battle that fire. >> they need to maintain their hydration so they can go on to the next alarm. kimberly: we still don't know at this hour what started that fire. to throw a dart at an asteroid, double asteroid redirection test. a spacecraft the size of a refrigerator that would be used to knock an asteroid off course. nasa is working with the johns hopkins applied physics lab on dark. they hope -- on dart. they hope to have it ready by october, 2022, when an asteroid system is set to make an approach near earth. that's amazing. josh: it really is incredible and nice to know. the reason why they would want to do that was to that they would be able to. kimberly: we just saw two of our reporters out and about with very dark skies, wet pavement. josh: it's been quite an a

now you can help nasa fight spread of mosquitoes.logist matt peterson is in the einstein health care science center to show how an app on the phone can fight a pesky bug. many of us only think of mosquitoes as annoying pests that bite us in the summertime , however there are many place as cross the country and globe, where mosquitoes are more than just a summertime nuisance. and nasa's looking for citizen scientists to help them berth understand mosquito population s. >> we are constantly trying to learn more about the environment that surround us and that includes, learning about insect populations and how they effect the area that we live. that is today's development of a app called a mosquito habitat mapper so you can figure our where certain mosquitoes tend to be. >> we try to figure out where the main breed are. >> reporter: app laos to you document and photograph mosquitoes and larvae for future use by nasa and other organizations. >> we're asking you to identify habitat for mosquito breeding. >> reporter: this ground level dat

in the fall of 1958, nasa's first administrator, t. keith glennan, approved "project mercury" with the goal of sending a man into space and bringing him home safely. and do it before the russians do it. but first, nasa needed a spacecraft. specifications were sent to 20 companies. eleven bid on the highly prized contract. and in january, 1959, st. louis-based mcdonnell aircraft corporation was picked to build what had never been built before. "this was irresistible. this was a chance to do something that had never been done." "we were just basically out of college. i just graduated a year before." "i was part of the electrical power and sequential system." "i followed mercury from the very beginning after the contract was signed in 1959, january." "what they really asked mcdonnell to do was to take the warhead off of a ballistic missile and put on the spacecraft that we were designing and building in st. louis." "we were given the shape, the basic shape of it and here's a blank piece of paper, you do what you have to do to put a man in

astrid: cuando comenzÓ el sueÑo de trabajar en la nasa?ensar por quÉ pasan ciertas cosas, la investigaciÓn... astrid: en estos momentos colombia viene con un equipaje fuerte de muchos cambios. quÉ le deseas y cuÁl es ese deseo que tienes para tu paÍs? >> yo deseo que podamos encontrar una fÓrmula para mejorarles el estado vivir y ayudarles a pensar mejor en lo que podemos hacer. todavÍa tenemos situaciones en las que tenemos gente que se preocupa por el agua la comida. cuando tÚ tienes eso en mente es muy difÍcil decirte ahora piensan astronomÍa, en matemÁticas... a quÉ horas vas a hacer eso pero cuando tÚ separas esas dos cosas o cuando tÚ puedes darle a alguien las cosas para la supervivencia, te puedes dar cuenta de que los colombianos podemos hacer muchas cosas. [aplausos] karla: quÉ orgullo! astrid: todo ese crÉdito se los lleva diana porque son historia que todos quisiÉramos. yo nunca pensÉ en ser astronauta. karla: yo llegue a decir que querÍa ser astronauta al espacio pero obviamente un sueÑo y diosito me llevÓ por otro camino que

we have a link to the nasa web site on nbcwashington.com and on our nbc washington app. and if you miss this one -- >> we have another opportunity in 2024. >> nobody wants to wait until 2024. you're going to be down in we're going to get 2:11 of dark totality. i'm so excited to watch the moon go across the sun, stop there and continue and watch the other side of the sun come out. i remember a partial eclipse when i was in third grade. it's something you remember for the rest of your life. this is going to be a real cool event. >> you're going to be on facebook live and instagram. >> it going to be hard not to just sit there and look up. it's really going to be an amazing vant. what -- event. what's not going to be amazing is this heat. tomorrow and sunday weather alert days, not just because of the heat but because of severe thunderstorms. right now down at the airport, this is ridiculous. look at the current temperature at the airport, 88 degrees right now. the average high this year is 89, winds out of the southwest at 5 miles an hour. the heat is really intense. islan

joining us this morning with more is nasa's -- from nasa goddard flight center i belt nasa scientists you said this is an mazing thing. i hope everybody gets a chance to enjoy it. >> everyone will in some way, shape or form. across the 50 states, everyone is going to be able to see the eclipse in some shape? >> well that's right this is the first time in 99 years we've had a total eclipse of the sun that'sing going all the way across the united states. so it's happening one month from today is the moon will line upper infectly to actually block out sunlight and cast a shadow down on the earth. and they'll be about a 70-mile wide strip that goes ally way across the united states we'll be in total darkness unfortunately for washington, d.c. we're not quite there. we will actually see an 81% drop in sunlight. so you can see here's diagram of the moon moving across the sun. if you happen to be lucky enough to be in the path of totality you'll actually see the sky go completely dark even at our level of 81% change, you'll notice things getting cooler, there's things we can observe even in

nasa wants to know if humans can live on the red planet. a new study published says we cannot. study says there's a chemical compounds on mars that can turn into deadly bacteria when it touches uv light. >>> the valero refinery said if you noticed flaring it was not because of emergency. we notice shoek bmoke but no fl. any flaring was part of a controlled unit shutdown. the last time there was flaring was last may. valero is suing pg&e claiming when they shut down its electricity, it caused $75 million in damage. >>> the music streaming site sound cloud is closing its san francisco office. it transitioned from a free service to a subscription based one. it will lay off 40% of its staff. offices in san francisco and london will close down. more than 170 jobs will be cut. >>> it's hosted football, soccer, concerts and now golf is coming to levi stadium. they will host a three-day event where golfers can tee up inside the stadium. if you like to book a tee time, we have a link on abc7news.com. >>> stranded and injured bear cub gets rescued on fourth of july. how she's doing now.

today marks 20 years since nasa landed the rover on the surface of mars. that day, nasa has successfully sent eight other missions to mars. right now, the five nasa robots are exploring mars, as well as three robots from other nations. the hope is to spend the first astronaut to mars in the 2030s. astronaut jack fisher on board the international space station tweeted this picture of he and peggy witson celebrating independence day. they're all decked out. he tweeted this video showing what it took to capture the picture. microgravity allows for cool poses. >>> the fourth of july event on board the "uss hornet" has been canceled because of a power outage. guests will receive a rain check. ♪ >>> several bands helped lead the fourth of july parade today in marin. it included several bands, as well as floats and cars. ♪ >>> and check out the party in fremont. a series of dancers, marchers, and bands. it's estimated more than 10,000 lined the parade route to watch. >>> and let's take a live look in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, where they're setting off fireworks r

(pam) today is a historic anniversary for nasa.teve) it was two years ago the new horizons space-craft flew by pluto. that gave us the first close up pictures of the dwarf planet and its moons. now...two years later, that data is still being analyzed. today nasa released new detailed maps of pluto and its largest moon. the new horizons space-craft is on a new mission... it's next target... a small object in the kuiper belt called m-u-69... which is about a billion miles beyond pluto... last weather and goodbye final look at the weather with chief meteorologist brittney shipp. a full hour of entertainment news is on the way.at 7:00 it's the insider, followed by entertainment tonight at 7-30. then we're back with kron 4 news at 8:00 food. water. internet. we need it to live. but what we don't need are surprises, like extra monthly fees. i see you, fee, played by legendary actress anjelica huston. you got me, mark. we just want fast internet for one, simple rate. for all the streaming and the shopping and the newsing, but most of all.

nasa astronaut jack fisher saw this scene from the international space station. some 250 miles above the earth's surface. just kind of relaxing and tranquil as it goes by. in his tweet he called it a burrito of awesomeness smothered in awesome sauce. >> nice. >> i think he thinks it's awesome. >>> here's a question. is it the end of the line for a drugstore on every corner? the new start-up disrupting how you get your prescriptions. >>> a big turn around for microsoft today. just one day after a popular program was gone for good, it has c >>> corner drugstores are already kmeeting with grocery stores, discount chains and mail order for prescriptions. now there's a new player, a start-up in silicon valley that's offering free delivery. we get an inside look. >> reporter: it's the kind of delivery sfrs a start-up called,000 >> people don't want to stand in line any way. general trend helps and once you start to get the word out, once somebody experiencing it, it's such a sea change. >> reporter: with savings from operating a centralized pharmacy, it can provide fre

today marks 20 years since nasa landed the rover on the surface of mars.day, nasa has successfully sent eight other missions to mars. right now, the five nasa robots are exploring mars, as well as three robots from other nations. the hope is to spend the first astronaut to mars in the 2030s. astronaut jack fisher on board the international space station tweeted this picture of he and peggy witson celebrating independence day. they're all decked out. he tweeted this video showing what it took to capture the picture. microgravity allows for cool poses. >>> the fourth of july event on board the "uss hornet" has been canceled because of a power outage. guests will receive a rain check. ♪ >>> several bands helped lead the fourth of july parade today in marin. it included several bands, as well as floats and cars. ♪ >>> and check out the party in fremont. a series of dancers, marchers, and bands. it's estimated more than 10,000 lined the parade route to watch. >>> and let's take a live look in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, where they're setting off fireworks right n