she simply came in and did mathematical type of equations for nasa. what they did not realize was that she was more than just a computer. she was a mathematical genius that is what catherine johnson was. >> five, four, three, two, one, take off. >> in fact jon glen who said, this computer thing, not catherine, this actual computer that was built, calculated his actual trajectory into space and he wanted that verified by catherine johnson. here is the important part. he did not ask the mathematicians from mit. he did not asked him mathematicians from stanford or hartford. he asked the brilliant mathematician from west virginia state university to calculate my trajectory and make sure i get home safe. that says a lot about what catherine was to not only nasa, but which she meant to the individuals that she worked with. they relied on her. they put their lives in her hands. so, what she meant to nasa was that we won the space race, and catherine johnson played a very significant role in that. you know, catherine is about dashes from a small town about tw

you know all about nasa, and we've really done a job with nasa. it's been reinvigorated. it was dead as a doornail, and now it's very much alive. perhaps, and you know everybody. they know you as well as everybody. why don't you give them a little presentation? jim: absolutely. yes, sir. nasa has been hard at work. part of the whole government approach to combat the coronavirus. and so a lot of our work force has been staying at home. as has been the guidance. the question is what do you do with rocket scientists when they stay at home? what they do is they build amazing things. in this particular case, i have three to showcase here, but there are so many others we could talk about. but i'll go from left to right. this is an oxygen hood, so a person who has coronavirus, we want to make sure that they have pressure for their lung with 100% oxygen, so we put this hood on them. and we also want to make sure they are not shedding bars at the same time, so it protects the health care workers who are working on the patient. so this is an oxygen hood. it was create build scienti

she is nasa's longest-serving female employee. in 2004, nasa made a new administrative rule that if you do not hold an advanced degree, you cannot have the title of engineer. so that title that sue worked so hard to get in 1969 was taken away from her and she was demoted. despite this, even though she went to school at a time when women were not generally allowed in engineering schools, she loves her job and working at jpl and so i wanted to write this book to tell the history of these women because they very much deserve it but also hopefully to inspire the next gen race of scientists and engineers and we're seeing in particular a lack of women in computer science so in 198437% of bachelor degrees in computer science were awarded to women and today that number is at about 16%. we also see that about half of all women in science technology, engineering and math end up leaving mid career and in addition to that, we see a real stagnating interest in sten among high school graduate women. in red on top are male high school graduates

nasa has been hard at work. part of the whole government approach to combat the coronavirus so a lot of our work force has been staying at home. the question is what do you do with rocket scientists when they stay at home? what nadeau is build amazing nifpks. i have just flee to showcase here but familiar so many others we could talk about but i'll go from left to right. this is an oxygen hoods, so a person who has coronavirus, we wants to make sure that they have pressure for their lung with 100% oxygen so we put in hoods on them and we also want to make sure they're not she woulding virus at the same time so it protects the health care workers far working on the patient. so this is an oxygen hood. it was create build scientists at the armstrong flight research center in california in conjunction with the -- with what's called virgin gallactic. a commercial company that will be launching people to space straight up and straight down in a very short period of time, just commercially. tours, new will. president t

nasa selects to fly.he military will select a hundred people to go through pilot training knowing or planning that they are going to wash out a third or a half. nasa went the other way. more care, more precision and diligence in the selection. so that everyone is going to fly. susan: from the 1978 class it was sally ride, one of your colleagues, who was chosen to be the first woman in space. you write about that selection process and how ultimately you were happy that it wasn't you. dr. sullivan: yeah. we were all pretty competitive. i think we all knew, believed, that if we got the nod to go first we could do a fine job. i still think that was true about all six of us. sally was certainly a fine choice in countless ways but yeah, we were all used to finishing first, getting a's and winning anything we would go after and suddenly it's not going to happen. you've got to get over that little disappointment moment. but when she landed, when their flight landed, weather forced them to land in california, at e

she had been appointed a nasa consultant. but she said i am the most un- consulted consultant in any government agency today. i'm certainly not a feminist nor do i want to be a space age. stowe. but i would give my life to this purpose and counted as a blessing to serve my god and my country to the upmost. i hope to make that space like. applause filled the room. they third -- stood and moved to the podium. through the editorial license and did a fairly widespread belief. it was a very different version of the same story. it gets really messy and complicated as it goes back and forth. there is one other letter i want to reach you really quick. like i said this got all the way to a house subcommittee hearing and that all the way to the house subcommittee hearing in even got to the point that jerry and another one of the woman pilots got a meeting with lbj when he was vice president. i have never heard of the letter before. it is like that handwritten signature. you can just pick it up. i love history. thank you so much for you

i'm certain it must be for those working at nasa right now. fortunately, you know, there are some projects such as mars rovers that i think will always garner perhaps a little more attention than they should. they are so exciting. perhaps cocould linger around a little longer. it's amazing how we're able to launch the spacecraft, even though there may not be anyone riding in them able to go off and take the beautiful pictures of jupiter and saturn and send them back to earth. >> all right. i hope you'll come back. and, you know, before she goes back -- let's give her a thank you. [ applause ] right here. the tools, the techniques of slave owner power. we'll talk about the tools and techniques of power break practiced by enslaved people. up next on american history tv. benedict arnold's success as an general general this one-hour talk is hosted by the university of washington as part of their great lives lecture series. >>> well, good evening, everyone. welcome. one of the country's most noted,

it is not the case that nasa made male space suits and expect us to wear them. for the silvera they intended to make a spacesuit that would fit any human being from 50% to 90 fifth, a good concept. sort of mister potato head assemble it by the pieces approach. the problem was you need to make finer size divisions, have enough versatility to fit different sized people and enough inventory to cover a range of sizes. it was a well intended agnostic design that failed in implementation and the failure mode preferentially affects small people which happens to be disproportionately the women in the astronaut corps. that is basic physics. you remove her from middle school, a longer prybar it is easier to lift something than with a shorter one. if you are working in a space suit it takes extra effort to move every limb on your body, more effort, the longer your limb is the lower proportion of energy is taxing your muscles. shorter, more muscle exertion. there are ways to solve those physics problems. if i felt nasa for anything it is under supporting the first suit and

she was accepting an award at nasa. i had no idea that women worked at nasa at this time, much less a scientist. i knew i had to learn more. what i found was francis wasn't. she was one of a large group of women who worked at a place called the jet propulsion laboratory or jpl in pasadena, california. now jpl has a really fascinating history itself. it was founded by a group that were called the suicide squad. they received the name because of the very dangerous experiments they performed on the call tech campus where some them were students and some were young people who liked to fire off rockets and explode things. so they did a lot of that on campus. they set off an explosion in the engineering building, which rusted a brand new and expensive wind tunnel. they blasted off the side of the building reigning bricks down on students below. it was at this point that the administrators at cal tech said, okay, this is enough. you guys have to leave. this is where they went to the isolated canyon outside of pasadena where th

granted and assays the king of nasa dictionaries. not kidding. anything else? i know we are close on time. i want to be aware of that. i think were good. thank you. [applause] >> weeknights this month, were showcasing what's available every weekend on c-span2. tonight, socialism, kentucky republican senator, rand paul discusses his book, the case against socialism on the history and rise of socialist ideology in america. then, his current affairs editor-in-chief, nathan robinson, author of why you should be a socialist. after that, economist robert lawson and benjamin powell and socialism sucks about their travels to socialist countries. quick tv this week and every weekend on c-span2. tonight on the communicators, from the annual state of the net conference internet archive creator talks about documenting the internet. >> we collect about 800 million patients every day. the total collection is 800 billion url comments kind of huge. also international television and if you go to tv.archives you can search for what other clips says. unless people can compare and

nasa astronaut, catherine spent over 500 hours in space. before that, she trained as a scientist, receiving a phd in angeology and she went from studying the ocean floor onto nasa and became the first american woman to walk in space. she's a pattern of three nasa space missions and she was on the crew of thehr discovery shuttle thought watched the amazing hubble space telescope which had radically revolutionized our views of the universe. she does not stop when she left the astronaut corps. "afterwards", kathryn served as the atmospheric demonstration, overseeing network of satellites shift in airplanes that looked back at earth, monitoring the health of our atmosphere and now, after 2017, she has written a book. called handprints on hubble, astronaut story of adventure and that's the subject of her talk tonight. the lovely folks at books on call nyc booksellers tonight. kathryn will be signing copies after her talk and after the q&a. we will have, she will come and talk, talk you and i with you, our wonderful audience. then we will have th

congress following hot on the heels for the senior nasa leaders. and as you all know as part of the story that is more familiar the hubble team pulls itself together and discovered one fact and then had a clever idea you did screw up. but you screwed up very precisely. which meant just like your eye doctor can calculate the formula will make your eyes less blurry it's possible to calculate very precisely what adjustment would restore full eyesight to hubble. the clever idea is now i know what optics i need but how do we get those into the right path of a telescope already in orbit? the inspiration for that believe it or not came from a shower and holland one engineer had his head rolling of all these problems how to get the small corrective weirs into the telescope. he is really tall so he loosens the showerhead to move it up the pole and adjusts it and it dawns on him a mechanism that could extend with small arms to put it just in the right place could be the way to get the corrective optics that was called the costar device. that was carried by t

i could agree with a lot of people from nasa it was a high point for nasa's career to.

i could have stayed here at nasa. but probably retired from the navy and become a gs or i could retire and go into private enterprise. when i looked back at going into the navy, i said, well, i was a captain for six, seven years and i said, if i'm up for selection for admiral and there's several people to fill that billet and i was a selection officer, who would i pick? would i pick lovell who spent 11 years at nasa or this fella who spent, you know, two tours in vietnam and naval war college, all these really, you know, positions to go up to be an admiral, i said, i'd pick that guy over there, not lovell and that made the decision that i should go into private practice. >> you were in the towing business, the boat business for awhile. >> right here in houston, texas. i tried my hand at that for four years. very lucrative business. enjoyed it, but there was no future for me there. >> telephone business? >> i got in the telephone business at the right time, at the right place. by the husband of ed white's widow, she ma

and i applied straight in to nasa since i was already a nasa employee. the military did their own selection as i understand. people applied within the air force, say, and the air force looked at the people who had applied to go to nasa, to join the program and then they filtered it to some degree and in some cases. there might have been people qualified that the military had an assignment, they wanted the person to be more involved there than with nasa and probably didn't even give their name to nasa. so they gave nasa the names and nasa would choose from that and that would be the navy, air force, or army as it turned out later. and even coast guard. we ended up having a -- coast guard people fly in shuttle. but then you went through a physical. a week-long physical at brook air force base in san antonio where they gave you a thorough physical. about a little more than a flight physical. and then you went to houston for a combination of a writtenes a question-and-answer type testing deal and went before a board where i think they looked at how you handl

nasa is a bipartisan gem like any other civilian agency. it's taken a haircut in its budget and requested ask was not fully granted. it's a budget level is well below, vastly below the level it was in the apollo era. but it has pretty consistently grown. noaa has long enjoyed a bipartisan support it's a bipartisan way to forecast the weather and measure the tides. but there are politics, budget politics are more complicated than nasa's because there's not one single law is law on the united states called the space acts, it was passed in 1958. it lays outt comprehensively what a nasa is, why it exists and what it supposed to do. so had sort of a unified, this is what you are about. noaa came in existence in 1970 when they started the environmental was making people realize we need to get these bits and pieces, scientific bits and pieces that are scattered apart. understanding your really required between systems we have guys over here during oceans' mothers are doing atmosphere and somebody else over here, it's got to be connected and integr

in 1959, nasa was created in 1958. nasa introduced the world to its first class of astronauts, the mercury seven astronauts. these guys became celebrity's overnights, the way pilots were celebrities in the 30s. these were seven men, who had passed -- they were all military test pilots by design, they had jet test experience, where experimental test pilots had a certain number of hours in the air, height and weight requirements again because if they were over 180 pounds at rockets not getting off the ground. bad day for everyone. 110 men in the country because only men of the time could qualify as test t pilots. 110 men met the basic requirements they went their extensive personality test, psychological test, basically duly like like you as a human test, and the last -- the finalists the last 34 went their extensive medical testing. r everyone has seen the right stuff? that scene, i forget the actor's name, al sheppard is running down the hall within enema bag at her shirt open, that was very real. i have met one of the

i could have stayed here at nasa.robably retired from the navy and become a gs or retire permanently and go into private enterprise. when i looked back going back into the navy, i was a captain for six or seven years. i said if i'm up for selection forced forced admiral and who would i pick. would i pick this fell fellow spent two terms in vietnam and naval war college and all these really, you know, positions to go up to be an admiral, i would pick that guy over there not lovell. >> you were in the towing business, boat business. >> right here in houston, texas. bay houston towing. i tried my hand at that for four years. very lucrative business. enjoyed it. no future for me there. >> telephone business. >> i got in the telephone business at the right time, at the right place. by the husband of ed white's widow who she married five years later. and it was just when at&t, the bell system was getting ready to deregulate. we were selling telephone systems. our little company went from 8 million to 40 million and then ano

nasa certainly, i think, liked it. we used the zero-g airplane to get the sequences, the first time it had ever been done. the public enjoyed it, i think. i'm happy. jeff kluger is happy the way the book was portrayed. it was quite a deal. >> there have been all kinds of books about the astronauts, and about the various space flights. has nasa and have you gentlemen been treated fairly by the popular press? >> i think so. there is always critics. and especially the movie, when the movie came out, the space enthusiasts here, you know, all the space guys here said, there are 125 mistakes in that movie. but, you know, we've been nicely handled by the press with the book. i wrote it, we wrote it, i should say, in the we frame. not that i did this or i did that. it was not a biography or auto biography. we talk about lovell, hayes, gene, all the people because we wanted to write it in that way. >> you are watching american history tv on c-span three. to join the conversation, like us on facebook at c-span history. >> televi

military gave nasa names and then nasa would choose from that. that could be the navy, army, or air force. even the coast guard to. we ended up having the coast guard flying the shuttle. and then he went through a long physical, we in san antonio, it was a bit more than a flight physical, and then he went to houston for a combination of a simple written essay question and answer type test, and then went before a board and they were looking at how you handled yourself, how you handle yourself in public, your demeanor. dick head of that board before, i think there is only one astronaut on the board at one time. that was it. when we got to that point, it had already gone through the initial cut, there were probably at about less than 100 left. out of all of that we ended up with 19 of us in my group that were selected. and how that magically was done at the end, how the papers were laid out, i do not know. that is the process you went through. (inaudible) if there are no more questions from the front, where from students in the back? >> they will ha

i want to get your reaction to this nasa use that nasa automakers, everyone seems to try to produce ventilatorst sure it's the competition make were you but you do you worry ventilators, because they are being made so quickly going to be as effective as your ventilators which have been around for years and years? casey: we are an independent distributor, we have multiple different manufacturers. i think it's fantastic that the country is inspiring nasa to build another ventilator. we need companies like ford motor and tesla to step up and build ventilator patients who are ultimately the winners in this. liz: if you're working with, obviously you're trying to get the distribution standpoint, you're trying to get ventilators to the hotspots, new york, louisiana, illinois, what are you hearing from the states right now? you feel the supply is at least adequate for now? are the cities or states telling you they are concerned will need for supply? casey: five to six weeks ago, we started with the hotspots, our estate is louisiana so we focused on making sure louisiana had what they needed, we quickl

and nasa just let astronauts take home stuff from their missions?ded to happen quite a bit more up and through the end of the apollo period. astronauts often took home memorabilia. afterwards, shuttle astronauts had to give everything back. >> for example, those cameras from the mercury missions. >> the first astronaut to take one to space was wally schirra on his mercury mission. he was an amateur photographer, and they got some more in order to train with them and then, of course, take them to space. >> how important was photography in space? >> it's really fundamental to everything that we understand as people who can't go their ourselves. it's a tremendous value to scientists who started to study weather from space. so, this is kind of the early phases of learning about the earth. >> now they're sought after by collectors, some selling for six figures. so, looking to provide shelly a cash cushion and a crash course in selling space memorabilia, rick cigel asks his friend, a new hampshire auction executive, bobby livingston to unload his rare has

hablar de esta superluna de esta noche para hacerlo saludo a jerÓnimo villanueva cientÍfico de la nasaor de la tierra en forma eclÍptica, y como tÚ decÍas este es el evento donde va a estar mÁs cerca de luna llena en el aÑo. >>> la nasa ha estudiado la luna con quÉ lo que mÁs les ha sorprendido de nuestro satÉlite natural? >>> desde que llegamos a la luna hemos pasado 50 aÑos redescubriendo la luna y ahora en los Últimos arons tenemos una misiÓn que se llama luna que ha logrado mapear la superficie la luna con precisiÓn y nos permite entender si hay cambios, que hay muchos cambios en la luna, y lo mÁs interesante por ejemplo que encontremos en la parte del polo sur de la luna que puede haber agua en estado sÓlido o sea hielo de agua, y que puede seÑor un buen reservarÍo para explotaciÓn de estos recursos en la superficie de la luna. >>> bueno ustedes en la nasa estÁn planeando una nueva misiÓn a la luna mediante el programa artemisa quÉ quiere descubrir sobre la luna? >>> esta misiÓn, queremos usar el proyecto que es mandar seres humanos en el 2024 a la luna, vamos a mando lugar primer

he's asked to join the newly created national aeronautics and space administration, nasa, in houston.nd stout was a man of the cloth, but he was also a man of science. >> space historian robert pearlman. >> the reverend's official role at nasa was as senior information scientist, but he was also a chaplain and fulfilling his spiritual role as well. >> was religion a part of the astronaut's life? >> there were some that were very religious. they had their own belief system separate from what they were doing for nasa. >> stout's religious and scientific faith are tested in 1967 after tragedy strikes the apollo 1 mission. >> the apollo 1 crew of gus grissom, ed white and roger chaffee, they were in the final preparations for their launch when a fire broke out in their capsule. >> all three astronauts are killed. >> that had a profound effect on reverend stout. >> carol mersh has written a book about stout's biblical quest called "the apostles of apollo." >> and stout decided to form what's called the apollo prayer league. >> the league, created under the auspices of a presbyterian church

in 1959, nasa was created in 1958, nasa introduced the world to its first class of astronauts and they became celebrities overnight the way that's pilots for celebrities in the 30s. these were all military test pilots that have experience or experimental test pilots had a certain number of hours in the air, height and weight requirements and because if they were over 180 pounds of rocket isn't getting off the ground, bad day for everyone. only men of time to qualify as test pilots.nt 110 that the basic requirements and went through personality tests, psychological tests, basic do we like you as a human tests and the last group of finalists went through extensive medical testing in new mexico and then seeing the write stuff that scene where i forget the name of that was very real. all the medical testing that we are somewhat familiar with, this happened like i said this was one of the oldest friends. floyd was the chairman of the void of the foundation. so all of a sudden they are the celebrities everyone wants to be in the chair he happens to be at the right place in the right time wit

last year nasa unveiled mission headquarters in huntsville, alabama.hat is the cbs money watch report. for more, go to cbs money watch.com. >>> human back to the moon, not the only thing nasa is working on. it's also joining the fight against the coronavirus. it's doing so in record time. >> reporter: for scientists who specialize in spacecrafts, designing and earthbound medical machine may be one of their most unusual creations yet. >> this was a complete departure. we are not a medical device company. >> this is project vital, a group of jpl employees designing a new type of ventilator from scratch. in just 37 days. >> it was an incredible feat for a socially distanced staff. a group worked on the prototype in person and the rest relied on videoconferencing. >> combining the technical know- how of more than 100 people remotely was one of the most challenging parts of the job. >> we were creating this new path for a way of working. a new way of doing things. it was incredible how much we were able to accomplish in a short period of time. >> coming int

plus if you're looking for a new way to pass the time at home nasa is making it easier for you learn more about coral reefs and even how to protect them. and one mayor in placer county is facing backlash tonight up next what he said about president trump >>it definitely shocked. i don't think it's appropriate especially in these times. >>the mayor of auburn is unr fire tonight for making controversl comments about president trump. his supporters and his handling of the coronavirus a facebook group and others are sharing the posts and the comments made by mayor bill kerby one shows a meme comparing trump supporters to thk k k saying most of them ready have mas the mayor is also seen in these comments making comparisons to hitler and his supporters adding that the world would be better off without th. people in auburn say they're shocked by the commts with some calling for the mayor to step down. let's certainly support trump. >>but anytime somebody feels like you you like the policies of the president then oh you're a racist or a bigoyou should die th sort of thing i thk that's just u

are primarily nasa pilots or air force pilots. these are missions pushing people to believe that this is the way into space. is this what will be developed to make this transition? you have to think, when this airplane the idea of higher, faster, further is being symbolized through the x515. this was flown by scott crossfield and a number of nasa test pilots. including neil armstrong who was employed as a nasa research test pilot. something he was proud of. this was an alternate path that another type of vehicle was chosen for. in a lot of ways, this was an alternate pathway that never happened, but the knowledge of the technology of designing a hypersonic vehicle in which, the x 15 holds the record as the fastest man-carrying vehicle to this day, the x15 is still a symbol of what might be the next plateau in terms of hypersonic flight. there are many individuals, especially nasa today, believe hypersonic travel is possible and there is research in unmanned hypersonic engines and they see these as a direct result of this work like

and finally a recent nasa discovery is giving some hope that in earth 2 point 0 may actually exist and now it's not even close to mars r.t. correspondent attash is sweet takes a look at what researchers are saying about this newly discovered exoplanet. 300 light years from earth and your discovery reveals an exoplanet with stock similarities to our very own globe nasa describing the exoplanets as the most similar to earth insanities and estimated temperature and that's comparing this exoplanet to thousands of others discovered by the now retired kepler space telescope it ran out of fuel and reportedly went to sleep back in 2018 but scientists are still looking through all of its captured surveillance this nasa illustration is what scientists believe the surface of kepler $641.00 c. would potentially look like a location makes it possible for a liquid water to exist and it's slightly larger than earth receiving 75 percent of the same light we get from our own sun according to nasa this could mean temperatures there might also be similar to what's found here on earth this planet was orig

scientific publications nasa says the hubble has become the most prolific space observatory in history and like any delicate piece of machinery astronauts have had to fine tune it making some complicated and certainly unique spacewalks and repairs over the years just take a look at some of the incredible images hubble is captured over the past 3 decades part of nasa 30 years 30 images celebration from the birth and death of stars painting a brilliant tapestry of nebula nick fury to the swirling cosmic collisions of gases and dust creating a celestial celebration of light and heat like a creature rising from the deep a premortal painting proving that we are only just starting to understand and perhaps unlock the mysteries of the universe the birth of stars planets and perhaps of life hubble has also been back iconic images of jupiter and saturn never seen before here's a psychedelic shot of a planetary nebula called n.g.c. 6751 and the cloud of gas suggested several 1000 years ago from the hot star visible in the center or take a look at these towers in the eagle nebula known as the pil

like galaxy of the milky way located 163000 light years away nasa has nicknamed the image the cosmic reef because well it looks like a coral reef nasa scientists released the image to celebrate the hubble telescope launched 30 years ago this month from the kennedy space center in florida it was named in honor of astronomer edwin hubble who back in the 1920 s. discovered galaxies beyond our own with the biggest telescope of his day since its launch the $1200000000.00 hubble telescope has measured the expansion acceleration rate of the universe found that black holes are common among galaxies taken $1400000.00 observations of distant stars galaxies and planets and provided data to astronomers worldwide used in more than 17000 scientific publications nasa says the hubble has become the most prolific space observatory in history and like any delicate piece of machinery astronauts have had to fine tune it making some complicated and certainly unique spacewalks and repairs over the years just take a look at some of the incredible images hubble is captured over the past 3 decades part of na

. >>> it was 50 years ago this past weekend that nasa launched the apollo 13 mission. it was supposed to be the third mission to land humans on the moon but two days after the launch, explosion in the spacecraft's oxygen system put the three-man crew in mortal danger, thanks to their quick thinking and the ingenuity of nasa scientist, the astronauts made it safely back to earth. an investigation was launched and one member of the panel looking into what went wrong was neil armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon. armstrong spent most of his life after the moon walk out of the spotlight, but he did take time of thousands ofters he rece over thesome of those are new book, "dear neil armstrong," jeff glor took a look inside. >> one thing that's really great about these letters is that you never really know what you're going to find. >> reporter: jim hanson is neil arm strong's official biographer. he wrote the book "first man." >> we need to fail down here so we don't fail up there. >> reporter: and consulted on the movie that followed. >> if he stayed a test pil

logically the world might thing that one was a fluke, apollo 13, nasa had gotten the idea that it wast to keep landing on the moon. >> okay, i can see on window. >> looking at beautiful view of earth. and wind in good shape. i'm real pleased. i'm kind of hopeful the high concept will be really good. >> good deal. neil: sunday april 12th. >> this is apollo control houston, 17 hours, 23 minutes and now under the flight, apollo 13. our digital displays presently show the apollo 13 spacecraft at 79,919 nautical miles away from earth and traveling at velocity of 6300, 50 feet per second. >> the mood was light. >> did you finish your income tax? neil: he had not. [inaudible] >> things going to happen real fast down there. i do need an extension. >> he got exposed to the resource and backup jack swigert took his place. >> we will see if we can take the agent out in the pacific when you come back. ♪ neil: the only problem on houston's radar choice of confidence. >> just made myself a hot dog sandwich we can -- with ketchup. >> you are supposed to put mustard on the hot dog and not ketchup but

logically the world might thing that one was a fluke, apollo 13, nasa had gotten the idea that it wast to keep landing on the moon. >> okay, i can see on window. >> looking at beautiful view of earth. and wind in good shape. i'm real pleased. i'm kind of hopeful the high concept will be really good. >> good deal. neil: sunday april 12th. >> this is apollo control houston, 17 hours, 23 minutes and now under the flight, apollo 13. our digital displays presently show the apollo 13 spacecraft at 79,919 nautical miles away from earth and traveling at velocity of 6300, 50 feet per second. >> the mood was light. >> did you finish your income tax? neil: he had not. [inaudible] >> things going to happen real fast down there. i do need an extension. >> he got exposed to the resource and backup jack swigert took his place. >> we will see if we can take the agent out in the pacific when you come back. ♪ neil: the only problem on houston's radar choice of confidence. >> just made myself a hot dog sandwich we can -- with ketchup. >> you are supposed to put mustard on the hot dog and not ketchup but

. >>> vamos a otro cumpleañero porque hoy cumple 30 años el telescopio espacial hubble de la nasa >>> de la nasa el 24 de abril cumple tres décadas de operaciones en el espacio, por su cumpleaños, la nasa compartió esta hermosa imagen captada por hubble donde se observa una región con el nacimiento de varias estrellas a más de 160,000 años luz de distancia en nuestra galaxia, algunas de ellas son hasta 10 veces más grandes que el sol >>> es material de la misma estrella que fue expulsado hace millones de años y que está viajando a unas velocidades muy grandes >>> el telescopio ha logrado capturar la gran mancha roja característica del planeta júpiter y ha descubierto nuevos objetos como lunas en otros planetas >>> hubble también detectó la presencia de agua y las en una de las lunas se llama europa >>> los astronautas prepararon y han modernizado el telescopio en el espacio, se encuentra a 340 millas sobre la superficie de la tierra sopor fuera de nuestra atmósfera, le permite m profunda en el espacio y con mayor capacidad de los telescopios que están en la tierra >>> el hubble es el

announcer: 50 years ago on april 11, 1970, apollo 13 blasted off on what was to be the third nasa mission to land men on the moon. "houston, we13 have a problem." this 1970 documentary tells the story of the crisis which nearly left three astronauts stranded in space. >> this tape recorder has been a big benefit to us in our transit opt to the moon. it's odd to see if floating like this. it is playing the theme from "2001." narrator: april 13, 1970. the mood could only be described as relaxed. apollo 13, man's fifth lunar mission. the third scheduled landing on the moon. >> we've got one more item for -- this is the crew, ready to close out aquarius and get back to a pleasant evening in odyssey. good night. 13, we've got one more item for you. we would like you to stir up your cryo tanks. >> ok. standby. >> houston, we have a problem here. >> this is houston, say again. >> we've had a main b bus undervoltage. >> we had a pretty large bang associated with this. as i recall,b was the one that had a spike on at once before. announcer: april 11, 1970. launch day. , jimrew of apollo 13 level,

sleep back in 2018 but scientists are still looking through all of its captured surveillance this nasa illustration is what scientists believe the surface of kepler $641.00 c. would potentially look like the location makes it possible for a liquid water to exist and it's slightly larger than earth receiving 75 percent of the same light we get from our own sun according to nasa this could mean temperatures there might also be similar to what's found here on earth this planet was originally overlooked by a computer algorithm but was found after scientists began reviewing the telescope data published in the astrophysical journal letters this month lead author andrew vanderburgh from the university of texas at austin says quote with red drifts almost everywhere around our galaxy and these small potentially habitable rocky planets around them the chance of one of them isn't too different than our own earth looks a bit brighter scientists say kepler 1649 sees atmosphere is still a mystery and that calculations may be off the planet is in orbit around a red door which is a type of star and ac

and there are many individuals, especially nasa today in their aeronautics, the first "a" in nasa, who believe that hypersonic travel is possible, and there's research and unmanned hypersonic flying engines, and they see these as a direct result of this work in aircraft like this research airplane, the x-15. well, i hope you've enjoyed this look at some of the one-of-a-kind, path-breaking aircraft to illustrate this theme of higher, faster, and farther in the collection of the smithsonian national air and space museum. you can choose other examples, but these are ones that i felt really illustrated these ideas of pushing the envelope, reinvention, as well as looking at the spectacle of flight, how people get excited about seeing these. and that really touches upon these ways of experiencing flight. we have our pilots, we have our engineers that create the aircraft, we have passengers on airplaners, but we also have just people watching and reading and learning about these stories, these very important stories in aviation that really have shaped and transformed our world. and so, in loo

it's kind of ironic because those astronauts they realize that their return date actually mirrors nasa is most catastrophic accident on a journey to the moon that triggered the most daring successful scuse me daring and successful rescue in nasa history take a look. this is used to say again please use when we have a problem. there it is one of the most famous lines in hollywood the 3 astronauts are going to return to earth the same day 50 years ago that the 3 astronauts aboard apollo 13 came home now it has been called a successful failure after the astronauts were safely returned to earth despite an oxygen taken explosion which put their lives in major jeopardy now astronaut jim lovell was on that mission back in 1070 and reflects on what happened 50 years later 13 that successful at its additional mission was very successful in bringing together the people of the united states of the world and the space program as 2 people can take over this is complete disaster and turn it into something that's very successful. now all 3 of apollo 13 astronauts say they gave a thought to they never

nasa has not launched such a ssion since the space shuttle program was retired i 2011, but it won' nasaketsofrather those spacex, a private company founded m by elk. now, the largest cluster of covid-19 cas in the u.s. has pped up at a meat processing center in soh dakota. mo than 770 infections have been linked to the smithfield foods operation in sioux falls. the company has shut the plant down, citing worker safety. south dakota is one of the few states that has not issued lockdown measures for its citizens. the bbc has written about this for our website a has more. correspondent: so this smithfield foods pork producing plant had its first confirmed case of coronavirus on march 26. they had 80 cases by april 9 so at was quite an explosive growth, and many people are asking why was the plant not shut down was the first case came out on the 26th? i wanted to answer that question and speak to as many workers as i could. i spokeboo half dozen current and former employees and their families, and they re telling me is they were not being given proper protective was confirmed.r that first c