did you transform nasa?> i try many times to make it very, very clear throughout the book that i am not the only person who transformed nasa per there's a huge group of people still is working on that. i would say yes. i would say nasa is transformed. it is being transformed. people are still there but it is a different place. people talk about cost-plus contracts and now even the nasa administrator is they are a plague. it was the sacrament of just anything like that in years ago. >> thank you so much. the book is escaping gravity. it has been a pleasure talking with you. >> thank you chris was wonderful to talk to you. ♪ the up-to-date and the latest in publishing with book tv podcast about books. with current nonfiction book releases plus bestseller list as well as industry news and trends through insider interviews but you can find about books on c-span now our free mobile app or wherever you get your podcast. ♪ weekends on the cspan2 are an intellectual feast. every saturday american history tv document

so, why did you leave nasa? i had been at nasa almost five years after being on the transition team. they had told me they would be replacing the head of nasa if the president was reelected but a few months in it became clear. they were not going to charlie and i again we got along but it wasn't very fair of me to be there continually being seen at least as opposing his policies and i wasn't looking but i got cold call from a headhunter looking for a game changer to run a major aerospace association and i knew i wouldn't leave nasa to go to industry or anything like that. this was the airline pilots union and they made me an authorized. i just loved it. i worked there for five years and i put a lot of what i learned about, you know running a major organization and making progress into that for a while. alright, so last question again going back to the subtitle that you wanted to transform nasa. that was your quest. did you succeed did you transform nasa? well, i try many times to make did you transform nasa. >>

i had left nasa in 2001. and now in 2008 i had been asked before even being deputy to lead the transition team for the incoming obama administration and the human spaceflight program was in disarray. i should say not only we we were retiring the shuttle which i felt was the right decision. there wasn't really a lot of political. um difference of opinion on that the former george w. bush president had deemed that necessary if we weren't able to recertify the shuttle which would have been very expensive as you said the program constellation to replace it we found was off track it had in its first four years spent. over 8 billion dollars, but had been delayed five years if you were going to keep it going it was currently going to launch only after within their budget profile. the space station would have had to have been de-orbited. their plan was only able to be paid for if they de-orbited the space station. we knew they weren't going to really do that. they were trying to really just trick the next administrat

we also provide military officers to nasa service the nasa astronaut. while they're there they are part of nasa and service astronauts. we've got two of those nasa astronauts that are space force officers that have been assigned. we also look at training opportunities. we operate in the same domain so the training capabilities we look at and partner. we both have a desire for norms of behavior. nasa has something they call the artemis support. which is in accord they are signing with their partners and the artemis launch program to stall out norms for their partnerships. we also are working on norms of behavior with our international partners. we also share partners. nasa has strong partnerships around the world and the national space security business and that's not something that historically, we had a lot of. we really didn't need them at the time. it was safe and peaceful and that's not the case. we are really working those international partnerships in an area of great advancement. so we partner with nasa. i think it's very important to realize two

guest: this has been a nasa mission. nasa is the one tasked with doing planetary defense missions. there is a national plan that was developed in 2018 that involved multiple agencies of which nasa is one. it lays out that missions like this are firmly in nasa's purview and control. so this is a nasa mission. host: tell me about your particular role in this project. guest: i am the coordination lead for dart. it is sort of a new mission, -- a new position because this mission is a little different than some of the science missions nasa traditionally runs, being the first one out of nasa's planetary defense coordination office. my role is to help organize and coordinate our very large international investigation team which will carry at the planetary defense investigation and also worked with our engineering team at apl, which is leading the mission and operations to ensure everything comes together to meet the requirements and our measurements that we want to accomplish for planetary defense for dart to be a success. but it is important because dart is just the start. it is the firs

let's wait and have math. nasa say that officially. but if you roll it back to the v a b that's, that's not a one day kind of thing. that'll be probably days or weeks if not longer. and terry, i'm curious yet your perspective as a former commander of the international space station, you know, nasa has been eager to showcase the progress that it has made in attempting to get humans back to the moon. this is a big deal. how big a set back is this for nasa? well, it's a rocket scrub. i mean, i was at nasa for 16 years and you know, the shuttle was constantly scrubbing my 1st shuttle flight. there was a thin layer of clouds and we had to wait until the next day. rocket scrubs are nothing new we've been. we've been delaying. rocket launch is now for 60 years so that i don't think it's too terrible. although it's, we not only have artemus space, sex is building a very heavy rocket. a blue origin also wants to build a big rocket. so there's not only competition with china, but there's competition internally in america. and so there is some pr

well, this brings me back to my first days and nasa in the early| my first days and nasa in the earlyfirst days and nasa in the early 1990s when we were having all kind of hydrogen leakage issues with the space shuttle and it seemed we would never be able to launch shuttles again. we had delay after delay after different vehicles and we finally got that salt and i am sure the technical team here will get these problems are solved. this is a new leak that had been seen previously, in other words the small leaks seen on monday attempt were from a different area. just leaks seen on monday attempt were from a different area.— from a different area. just on that oint, i from a different area. just on that point. i can't _ from a different area. just on that point, i can't work _ from a different area. just on that point, i can't work out _ from a different area. just on that point, i can't work out whether i from a different area. just on that i point, i can't work out whether that is a good thing or a bad thing, you don't want leaks all over the place, i suppose, but i suppose it is good

one's connected to nasa's gateway module. inflatable habitats will serve as a base for researchers traveling to and from the moon. - the key elements to get us to the moon is we have to put the infrastructure in place to make sure that people can actually stay there. once you've got that, then you have a permanent presence in space. - [narrator] technologies like these are forging the path for humans to build a permanent home, off earth. (dramatic electronic music begins) in the future, inflatable lunar habitats prove safe and reliable gateways to the moon surface. on a weekly basis, researchers shuttle between the moon and earth on advanced space planes. with enhanced rocket boosts, travel time is reduced over the 400,000 kilometer journey, from four days to just one. with the completion of a permanent research base on the surface of the moon. space agencies approve both the base and the orbiting station for commercial uses. spe touris can even enjoy a one week stay. (upbeat synths begin playing) - with inflatable habitat te

nasa calls off the planned launch of its new moon rocket for the second time in a week. officials say it's likely there won't be another launch attempt for several weeks. president zelensky of ukraine urges europe to remain united in the face of russia's use of energy as an economic weapon. his wife tells the bbc about the continuing impact of the war on the ukrainian people. translation: the prices are going up in ukraine i as well, but in addition our people get killed. so when you start counting pennies in your bank account or in your pocket, we do the same and count our casualties. donald trump accusesjoe biden of being the real enemy of the state — days after the president branded him a threat to american democracy. he's an enemy of the state. you want to know the truth, the enemy of the state is him and the group that controlled him. thousands of people have paid their last respects to mikhail gorbachev — the man who brought the cold war to an end. the death of mikhail gorbachev really does mark the end of an extraordinary era in history. a rare period when russia

how important is it for nasa? how vital to get humans back up to the well, it's important to go to the moon because there are a huge economic and eventually huge environmental benefits to, to the earth from exploiting back resources that are on the mountain. because of that potential between the great powers to, to get there and start to map, it's got to be done. that said, again, they're going to take their time and they'd be cautious and get this right. they cannot afford to failure on this be a do the space mission, still galvanize galvanized i should say populations back on us. that's perhaps the early apollo missions did all those years ago. yes, absolutely. i mean, i was out there on sunday for the 1st launch champ, i and it was a full house. the roads were packed lots. people had a really good time and you know, even though they didn't launch, there was this amazing sense of commonality and best enthusiasm for the project. i internationally, i did a moon day event in london, imperial college london, where i

of exploration runs really high, notjust at nasa, but with the united states.ot of technology that they have developed from the space programme into our daily lives here. you and i are speaking over satellite and internet communications, a lot of that came from this. so they're really hoping to inspire the next generation of scientists, as well find new technologies and new frontiers to explore. tariq malik there. chileans go to the polls on sunday to vote in a historic referendum on a new constitution that would radically reshape the south american country. the previous constitution was drafted by former dictator augusto pinochet and the new one would instead focus on social rights, climate and gender equality. it's expected to be a tight vote. our south american correspondent, katy watson, has been following the story. it started three years ago with what has become known as the social outburst of chile, mass protests over a rise in subway fares grew to encompass dipping qualities in the region's fares grew to encompass dipping qualities in the region's most

oh my cosh, oh commentary from nasa. oh my gosh. oh my — commentary from nasa.limited visual confirmation.— one. oh wow. limited visual confirmation. you can see and hear the excitement _ confirmation. you can see and hear the excitement in - confirmation. you can see and hear the excitement in that i hear the excitement in that room and the moment of impact and as they predicted the entire field of view destroyed. we are now looking at the scene inside that lab. these people would've worked so hard to get to the point here. it's quite a significant moment. could you pick up on the people who have worked so long on this how they are feeling today? it’s are feeling today? it's interesting _ are feeling today? it's interesting watching this that there — interesting watching this that there is— interesting watching this that there is probably a phd is made 'ust there is probably a phd is made just try— there is probably a phd is made just by looking at the surface and how— just by looking at the surface and how it is set up and we will also _ and how it is set up a

the sls returns nasa to the apollo design philosophy.of a rocket. >> the final liftoff of atlantis. miles: unlike the space shuttle orbiter, attached dn stream in and on the side harm's way of , falling debris, which caused the democrats -- which cause the demise of the columbia crew. >> this is where the crew would enter orion. miles: the manager took me to the top of the 32 story rocket. she showed me the lockheed martin orion. attached above, rockets designed to whisk the crew away if something goes terribly wrong. >> it has the capability to do and launch abort, if the rocket has taken off and we need the crew to get off the vehicle. miles: that is a significant safety improvement over shuttle? >> absolutely. miles: but there is still a lot of space shuttle dna in the design. the four main engines are modified shuttle leftovers. so too are the twin solid rocket boosters. and the fuel tank design also has a strong shuttle lineage. >> sls does not push technology. that was never part of its fails -- it's sales pitch. it was the opposit

. >> reporter: nasa officials are acutely aware of that kind of criticism, criticism from former nasaust that. there is obviously some criticism on capitol hill as well, although congress has largely kept this program alive for the better part of a decade. you know, sara, what i would say is one of the artemis rocket's big downfalls is the fact that it is totally expendable, meaning everything aside from this little capsule on top essentially gets dropped into the ocean and becomes trash, they can't use it again. what spacex is doing with its new rocket, which is not yet ready to fly, this new rocket is called starship, and it would be fully reusable. with that reusability, the cost goes way down. so yes, starship isn't quite on the launch pad just yet like the artemis rocket. but same day that is certainly a way you could bring down costs. whereas the sls rocket, nasa officials say someday they'll be able to bring down those costs but right now it's approximately $4.1 billion per flight, sara. >> if they end up doing that in the future, it is one step closer to going to mars, which i

of exploration runs really high, notjust at nasa, but with the united states.nology that they have developed from the space programme into our daily lives here. you and i are speaking over satellite and internet communications, a lot of that came from this. so they're really hoping to inspire the next generation of scientists, as well find new technologies and new frontiers to explore. tariq malik there. this is bbc news. the headlines: ukraine's president zelensky has urged europe to remain united in the face of russia's use of energy as an economic weapon. donald trump accusesjoe biden of being the real enemy of the state, days after the president branded him a threat to american democracy. the funeral has taken place of mikhail gorbachev, the last president of the soviet union who's widely credited with helping bring about the end of the cold war. he died on tuesday at the age of 91. russia's president vladimir putin did not attend due to what he described as constraints on his schedule. our russia editor steve rosenberg reports. in the columned hall of the

when i was a nasa administrator we found that nasa is covered in organic compounds, the building blocksesn't mean that there's necessarily life there but the probability went up significantly. we've seen methane cycles that match the seasons of mars, probability of life goes up and water under the surface of mars, wherever there's life on earth there is life. is that true on mars, we don't know. we need to know how to live and work and that's what the moon is all about. we will go with permanent presence. doesn't mean we will have humans all of the time but we will have access. we will use the resources of the moon to learn how to live and work on the moon using its own resources. we will take that all of that knowledge to mars. griff: very different from what we did in the past, is that correct? >> yeah, so what's interesting now is we now know that there's hundreds of millions of tens of water ice especially on the south pole of the moon. water ice represents air debris, hydrogen and oxygen. so air to breathe. hydrogen is fuel, it's the fuel that will fuel this rocket, the sls rocket

nasa says it will be several weeks before it makes another attempt to launch the artemis moon rocket, after blast—off was aborted for a second time. the european union says the bloc is ready to react if russia doesn't resume gas deliveries through a key baltic pipeline. thousands of people have paid their last respects to mikhail gorbachev — the man who brought the cold war to an end. the death of mikhail gorbachev really does mark the end of an extraordinary era in history, a rare period when russia was opening up to the world. and a warning of a rise in water—borne diseases in pakistan, as the country struggles to cope with the aftermath of devastating monsoon floods. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. nasa tried and failed again on saturday to get its space launch system vehicle to lift off from florida's kennedy space center. the countdown had to be halted because of a fuel leak — the second postponement in a week. the artemis programme aims to return humans to the moon in 2025, but the nasa team have suggested that there may now be a significant delay

i asked him how worried nasa will be about the apparent hydrogen leak.you were riding on a rocket, it would be because for concern, you would absolutely want it fixed before you were willing to take a ride to the moon, but, of course, this is an unmanned rocket. hydrogen leaks, they happen, it is a tricky rocket propellant to deal with. nasa has been working with that since the 1960s, since the original moon programme. i'm sure they will fix it, it is a question of time, and asjonathan said, it is a big, complicated system, it really is the biggest rocket that nasa or anyone has ever built, so there are a lot of things to get right. but, you know, nasa is probably the organisation to do it, but it will take some time. some people will say, they have had 50 years. it was quite a while since we last went to the moon, we have done this before, why all the publicity and the fanfare and it still not be working properly? well, that is a really good point. first time for a human mission round the moon since 1972. has the technology really advanced since then? f

it returns nasa to the apollo design philosophy.p of a rocket. >> the final liftoff of atlantis. reporter: unlike the space shuttle in harm's way of falling debris. >> this is where the crew would enter orion. reporter: the manager took me to the top of the 32 story rocket. the rocket is designed to whisk the crew away if something is terribly wrong. that is a significant safety improvement. but there is still a lot of space shuttle dna in the design. the four main engines are modified shuttle leftovers. so too are the twin solid rocket stirs. and the fuel tank design also has a strong shuttle lineage. >> it does not push technology that was never part of the failsafe. it was the oppose. because we are reusing shuttle parts, we are going to be able to do this sooner and for less money. reporter: she was the deputy administrator of nasa. in her newly released book, she says boeing executives promised to deliver a new rocket in five years for $6 billion. that was in 2010. >> i do not believe these people thought this would be true. bu

i'm with nasa's office of communication. earlier, we saw incredible live coverage of darts terminal approach to this target asteroid in near real time for humanity's first-ever test for planetary defense. let's take a look at that instant replay and then incredible footage. wow, so here you can see the spacecraft is autonomously navigating itself, it is precision locked on the asteroid , cruising in at a speed of 4000 miles per second. now you can see it filling the screen, we have never seen this object before. bullseye. we also have incredible high-resolution imagery from the camera which we are now able to show. here's the asteroid system, incredible surface detail of an asteroid 7 million miles from earth that we have never before seen, absolutely amazing, something for the history books. this is the last frame from the spacecraft before we confirmed loss of signal. i'm joined now by some members from the dart team who have helped launch the first of its kind mission which sounds like something from a science-fiction mov

i want to thank nasa for challenging with -- us with the problem. dart -- the incredible flyby of pluto and the probe. we can now add to this list, dart. on behalf of the applied physics laboratory, congratulation to the dart team and nasa on this accomplishment and demonstration of a game changing planetary defense capability. go dart. >> thank you and again, welcome to the johns hopkins applied physics laboratory where nasa's dart missing -- mission has made history. earlier, we saw incredible live coverage of the terminal approach for the test for planetary defense and let's take a look at the replay and the footage. you can see dimorphus. the spacecraft is navigating itself. cruising in at a speed of 4000 miles per second. you can see it filling the screen and we have never seen this object before. bullseye. we have incredible hide rental -- resolution, free from the dart camera -- resolution imagery from the dart camera. here is asteroid system and dimorphism is filling the view -- dimorphism --dimorphos is filling the view. this is the last fr

former astronaut for nasa. thank you for joining us this morning. i was just reading up on these -- scrub the launch. looked like it was some kind of engine cooling issue then turned out to be a faultsy sensor and the team will ignore that bad sensor. any more concerns before liftoff this afternoon? >> probably several million parts on that massive rocket. i think they have those valves and fuel lines figured out. but there's another one, there's liquid oxygen, liquid hydrogen issue they're looking at right now. a lot of things have to work and they're not going to launch until they're ready to launch. >> a lot of things have to work on that very complicated rocket. but also the weather has to cooperate. so how confident do you feel about a launch between that two-hour window beginning at 2:17 eastern and 4:17? >> yeah, my first shuttle flight we scrubbed for a thin cloud deck over the shuttle for the last 50 years we have been launching rockets and scrubbing for florida thunderstorms. so it sounds pretty good. it's not -- there's not a big storm sy

what does this mean for nasa? >> nasa works for the benefit of humanity.s the ultimate fulfillment of our mission to do something like this. a technology demonstration that could someday save our home. >> thank you. we have seen a lot of major milestones in space, the first flyby of pluto, first mission to orbit, first spacecraft to impact and asteroid. what was the moment like for you? >> it was incredible. to see how many years of hard work and creativity resulted in a direct hit was just an adrenaline rush. i will add i have been at the lab for quite a few years and have been involved in a lot of missions and achievements and never before have i been so excited to see a signal go away and then, she stopped. >> where going to replay impact on our screens right now so we can enjoy it again. >> what does it mean for john hopkins? >> use. this is exactly the kind of mission we seek to do, never before done mission. i would like to thank nasa for trusting us with this mission and tell everyone how proud i am of the entire team for this game changing achievem

here are some of nasa's animati. the asteroid is nearly a millios million miles away from all of us. nasa's dart spacecraft will be flying about 14,000 miles ar miles an hour when it slams int. it's a small moon that's orbitig that's orbiting the asteroid. is asteroid. it's about the size of your average pepsi machine. ime machine. imagine this. nasa says it will be like a bug crashing into an suv. the impact will not destroy this place if you wanted to know the name. nasa aims to nudge it off its course a little bit by as much as 10 minutes. >> trying to displace the aster, the asteroid, so we can maybe save humanity in a case that te object comes towards us u. this is a test to see how well we cn well we can do that and displace the asteroid and how much can e learn from this experiment to dt do it when had the time comes and an asteroid comes towards us to move it. >> all right, you might be worrd be worried from what you heard . but they say the odds of the asd of the asteroid hitting the earth would devastate th

can nasa are determined the optimist. well, take off at some point in the near future and well head to the moon. and alan wants the reaction. been there then? well, people are very disappointed. a lot of people came out especially to see the launch of the rock. in fact, we were speaking to someone yesterday who came in to town because he was delighted . it was a saturday so that give him the chance to see the launch and a note of like last monday when it was a work day. and he was hoping that the rocket would take off and clearly it's not going to happen today. so he'll be back at what can better disappointed that he didn't see that rocket law. and so many people who decided that they were going to make a deal of this, it's a holiday weekend here in the united states. some people came to florida, specifically for this launch. they were hoping to see it take off in. it would have been just over 2 hours time and that's not now going to happen. you can see people all along the beach and you would expect out in a glorious wee

, nasa will have pointers there and you can follow on twitter and the hashtag, nasa will be putting ittime? i'm trying to do - putting it out there. and how many hours' time? i'm trying to do the i hours�* time? i�*m trying to do the maths in my head. underfive. thank you so much for the information and doctor randy. you been watching outside source and thank you so much for your company. monday bright if spells of sunshine around but we did see plenty of showers and blustery showers blowing in on of corn northwesterly breeze too. in sussex, pick shower clouds around in the waves of been ripped up around in the waves of been ripped no ljy around in the waves of been ripped up by those winds over the next few days, really quite cool, quite windy with further blustery showers around as well. high—pressure moving in from the atlantic but low pressure heading towards the north east of the uk so a bit of a squeeze in those isobars indicating when your speu those isobars indicating when your spell of weather and the winds coming around from a clear direction of the moment and all the way bac

so nasa now has to fix it and they have two options.launchpad or they can roll the rocket all the way back to the vab, the vehicle assembly building, the garage and try to fix it there. to do that, that's four miles away from the launchpad, it can take up to three and a half days to get the rocket back there. it is a very intensive process that nasa was hoping not to do. but regardless of where they make those repairs, as of now, nasa says it is going to have to roll the rocket back to the vab regardless because of a safety violation with the range. the range is run by the u.s. space force and nasa says they're going to try to ask for an extension or a waiver to the safety violation. what this means in terms of timing is that there is no way that nasa is going to be able to launch by the end of this launch window, which ends on tuesday. so that means the next launch attempt of the artemis rocket likely will not be until the end of september at the earliest, more likely mid to late october, if not later. here is nasa's associate administ

of exploration runs really high, notjust at nasa, but with the united states.ot of technology that they have developed from the space programme into our daily lives here. you and i speaking over satellite and internet communications, a lot of that came from this. so they're really hoping to inspire the next generation of scientists, as well find new technologies and new frontiers to explore. tariq malik there. let's get some of the day's other news. health officials in argentina say an outbreak of infectious pneumonia, that's killed four people in a clinic in tucuman province, was caused by legionnaire's disease. seven other cases have been identified, most of them staff at the clinic. chileans go to the polls on sunday to vote in a historic referendum on a new constitution that would radically reshape the south american country. the previous constitution was drafted by former dictator augusto pinochet, and the new one would instead focus on social rights, the climate and gender equality — polls predict it will be a tight vote. let us go to russia. the funeral

well, it's a mission accomplished over at nasa today. it's very 1st planetary defense operation has successfully struck a harmless space. rock opening an asteroid, millions of kilometers from earth. the goal was to nudge the little moon into a new old bas. and it was also an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day that an asteroid might ever find itself on a collision course with our planet. nasa is going on the offensive tens of thousands of asteroids. orbit the sun, each capable of wiping out a city. while none of them are on a collision course with the earth. anytime soon, the agency decided it's time to test its planetary defense systems. the idea behind dart, the double asteroid redirection test was to launch a small spacecraft toward an asteroid and smash into it at high speed to alter the space rocks course. this inaugural planetary defense test mission marks a major moment in human history. for the 1st time ever, we will measurably change the orbit of a celestial body in the universe. doing so has clear benefits in ensuring hum

the next generation craft is the most powerful ever built by nasa. it was set to be the 1st launch for the agencies are to miss program which aims to eventually return a human crew to the move that's go now to keep calling the editor of space ref dot com. he joins us from washington. d. c. thanks for joining us, keith. i'm the launch has been postponed. what can you tell us about that? well, this is the 1st time that this particular rocket has been launched, although it is built out of components that were in the spatial. so we can see some problems that may be familiar to some people in this case and had to do with the valve that connects to the rocket. it since liquid hydrogen extremely cold temperatures. and because hydrogen is the smallest element there is it can leak to almost anything. and the 1st time they tried this, they had problems the 2nd and 3rd. so again, today when they tried to get everything to go together, it was a leak. they tried option a option b, then option c was option a again, and they just could not get the rockets to load s

well nasa is waiting for its own startup, all or at least changing its trajectory. we're counting down to monday's expected impact of a spacecraft into an asteroid in the hopes of one day saving humanity. here's a b cs geo benitez. kidding asteroid is a tough thing to do. humanity has never done that before nasa on the verge of a new frontier in space exploration, and it's something that may one day save us all. launching the dark mission aboard spacex's falcon nine rocket lift off the falcon nine and dark. the mission lifting off last year has been hurtling towards two asteroids with intertwined orbits, called didymus and amorphous, nearly seven million miles from earth amorphous is orbiting around didymus. kind of like the moon orbits around the earth. morpheus maybe smaller than didymus, but it's still big over 500 ft. wide about the size of a large football stadium. a rock of that size hitting the earth. would have enormous amount of energy. if it hits here. something uh, like that would would level small, state small country. yeah you heard that right? a small

>> any questions related to future planetary defense efforts, please reach out to nasa's -- to nasa for response. >> hello, i am a student at embry riddle university. an asteroid hit mars last friday. i did not know, when we call it planetary defense, is it just earth? >> in our case, it is. there is stuff everywhere. every planet gets hit. asterisk it hit. the moon gets hit. all the time. we often use traders to tell us more -- creature -- craters to tell us more about what happened in the beginning to get us to where we are now. a lot of stuff happened, but now, not so much, a lot of time has gone by. in terms of defense, we are the only place with life right now. >> the planetary defense office does look at all the impacts and assesses what happens. that is part of the office strategy, to characterize other objects in the solar system and characterize the threats, understand what they are made out of. bringing it back to didymus and dimorphos, what are they made out of? what will it create? will the impact to move the asteroid as much as we expect? >> the whole solar system is a lab

but behind the scenes, the nasa administrator told several vips in attendance that he believes that nasa is going to have to roll back the entire rocket all the way to the vehicle assembly building, the vab, about 4 miles away for repairs. that is something nasa did not want to do. i'm going to let john hunicut explain why. >> the big thing we want to avoid are roll backs to the vab. those are the things that dr.d dr. blevins has told me puts more stress on the vehicle than anything else. that said we have rolls left in the vehicle. but we want to watch that and manage it. >> that was john honeycut speaking at a thursday press conference. we're going to get another press conference where we should get official word what nasa plans to do next in about an hour at 4:00 p.m. the other thing you had going for you, jim, you and your show, was the weather. look at this, the forecasters were right, beautiful conditions. you know, if it had not been for these technical problems, this launch, weather-wise almost certainly would have been a go. >> florida in the summertime, even late in the summert

what are the nasa bosses giving us as explanations?rt of the process or something more?— normal part of the process or somethin: more? , . , . something more? they are pleading for patience. — something more? they are pleading for patience. i _ something more? they are pleading for patience, i guess. _ something more? they are pleading for patience, i guess. this _ something more? they are pleading for patience, i guess. this is - something more? they are pleading for patience, i guess. this is a - for patience, i guess. this is a brand—new rocket. it contains technologies borrowed from the space shuttle system which you will remember, that retired in 2011. but this is brand—new. brand—new for the rockets, brand—new for the capsule on the top, they have never launch that combination before. they have to learn how it behaves. when you pump it full of super cold liquids and liquid hydrogen is down at minus 250 celsius, the metal shrink, they move. you have to learn how that happens. you have to tune the rocket as you fill it with those p

on another front, it's mission accomplished at nasa. the 1st planetary defense operation has struck a space rock opening an asteroid, millions of kilometers from earth. the goal was to nudge the little moon into a new orbit. it was a dress rehearsal shoot. the day of a come at an asteroid finds itself on a collision course with our planet. 3, what? oh my gosh. wow. i didn't get your confirmation and direct hits millions of kilometers from the wools 1st ever planetary defense mission. as success, that is far from my coincidence. oh fantastic. we are so excited to be done. i, you know, we've worked on this mission for at least 7 years now and i, it's been a work of over 1000 people. yeah, definitely. as we were getting close to the asteroid, there was a lot of ed said joy, i say both tear and joy at the same time because we saw that we were going to impact the idea behind dot. the double asteroid redirection test was to launch a small spacecraft to war to space rock, smash into it at high speed. and now to its course, this inaugural plane

. >>> this evening, the nasa mission unfolding at this hour. a nasa spacecraft set to crash into an asteroid at 14,000 miles per hour. we're just minutes now from that mission and why they're doing this. >>> and they are the faces of climate change. our team reporting from inside somalia. the horror unfolding in east africa. 22 million facing starvation. the children in desperate need. the 3-year-old weighing what a 1-year-old weighs. matt gutman inside somalia and how you can help. >>> good evening and it's great to start another week with all of you at home. we begin tonight with hurricane ian barrelling towards florida. the storm and what they call a rapid intensification period, expected to go from a category 2 to a category 4 in the next 24 hours. racing across very warm waters, with little shear to knock down any strength. every county in florida under a state of emergency. the first mandatory evacuations now under way tonight. parts of tampa bay and clearwater included. more than 300,000 people told it's too dangerous to stay, that they

the people that nasa really smart people like really super smart. so if there is a problem there, they should be able to find a solution. it's just whether or not they will be able to what does that solution within 48 hours or we need something more significant, something more substantial and take the rocket back and essentially pull apart the part that needs to be looked at and get it all done from scratch and then look again at a much later law and all of that we're hoping will become clear very soon. indeed we'll for now. and fisher. thanks very much for that update. well, going to the moon is about more than just exploration. it's part of new international space race to exploits, new new resources. the focus is on the us right now, but other countries are investing in their own mission. russia has announced plans to withdraw from the international space station to focus on its own interest goals and includes putting humans on the moon by 2026. china is targeting at 2030 to put people on the moon. it's also planning to build the very 1st lunar ba

so nasa scrubbed the launch. we do not launch until we think it's right, and these teams have labored over that. and that is the conclusion that they came to. this is the second launch attempt to be scrubbed because of problems detected during the fueling process. on monday, it was a faulty sensor that lead engineers to believe one of the engines wasn't cooling properly. that's a concern because the liquid hydrogen rocket fuel is extremely cold. the liquid hydrogen is minus 423 degrees fahrenheit. so you don't want that coming into like warm florida day 90 degree engine hitting it like that, so we want to make sure those engines are nice and cool. before we start flowing that cold, cold, cold propellant in there, the space launch system or sls rocket and it's orion space capsule have never been flown before. nasa wants to test both spacecraft with an unknown crewed mission around the moon before they put astronauts on board for a future mission in 2024, now one has another opportunity to launch but that's conting

i'm sure nasa thinks it's worth it. you know, we're talking about $330000000.00 over a 7 year period. look, i mean, it's in the middle of an economic crisis. it's really difficult to justify these things, but it has been, you know, they had to go ahead with it. but also bear in mind, you know, we are not a trying to stop astro. it's coming to worth we also want to inspect them for resources that we could perhaps bring to worth. so that's all very important stuff . so the gum pro happily, but there are other car bonnie from dw science, thanks so much a fictional take on the life of mer. among marilyn monroe, hitch netflix, wednesday, blonde, which premiered at the venice film festival divided critics, and with its wider release. there certainly be more discussion about the life and legacy of one of hollywood, most iconic movie stars. oh, better oh, some of the glamour, but mostly the tragedy in the life of marilyn monroe is the focus of blonde cuban actress anna day out of must placement row in this fictional experimenta

bye, nasa. i'm not concerned about this, of course. if you look forward in history and you, you know, it's the beginning of a new era. we are all of is impatient. we want to have this vehicle go and i would have loved to see fly already last week. when i was there in florida, i was right in front of my eyes. i could have touched it. it didn't go today, it didn't go. but we need to be patient that's happened in the past. the space shuttle has as had moment where it was returned to the to the vehicle assembly building many times the apollo missions at the same thing. so this is just another time where we have to be patient, but eventually we will see this fly. and that's something i'm looking forward to very much. maybe one day i might even be on top of it. the last leader of the soviet union, mikhail gorbachev has been led to rest in moscow. gorbachev died 1891. after a long illness, crowds queued for hours to see him lying in state, but gorbachev's funeral was not as lavish as the ceremonies stage for other former leaders. ah, saying g

in typical nasa precision, bulls eye. >> fantastic. nasa's goal to slam into the asteroid and nudge it slightly off course. >> for the first time humanity demonstrated ability to autonomously target an aller the orbit of a celestial object. >> it will take a week or more before nasa can analyze data from tell he scopes from earth and space to tell if it gave the asteroid a tiny push. a critical test of nasa hopes to use the same technique to one die divert a mega asteroid from hitting earth. >> there is a huge come it headed towards earth. >> a scenario played out in hollywood mega hits. >> it's what we call a global killer. >> but potentially a real life threat to the global population. nasa chief bill nelson. >> it may be the clue of what we can do in the future to try to save life here on earth. >> nasa says they do not see any asteroid posing a threat to earth. but in 2013, a massive meteor escaped detection and exploded over a remote russian village injuring 1500 people. impacts have had a profound effect on history on earth. >> o