that's a nasa official. he's holding a piece of foam, which he is now saying could not have had enough impact because it's too light to have damaged those tiles that we've been talking about. >> i knew ron, i had respect for ron ron was lynam's boss and a good manager but what's always the first step in grief denial i called ron and i said, ron, let me just remind you, okay? we had a clear understanding that we are not going to eliminate anything until the data has come in to definitively eliminate it, to bring that out and dismiss it. >> you know preemptively, i think speaks volumes at the very least, they had to acknowledge it but it was acknowledging their own mistakes. and that's hard to do each week there was a new trailer load of debris showed up, came right in this hangar through those doors, and it would be cataloged and then put out on the floor i want to know what the debris is telling us. >> i want to know what the aerodynamics are telling us. and i want to know what the sensors are telling us. yo

the last ten or 15 years compared to nasa.t since 2011 and spacex has has launched 400. elon musk and the trump administration will seek more efficiency from the space agency. why has nasa only launched one rocket in the last few years? well, it's a complicated story, but basically the government moves slow. it operates through cost plus contracts, and there is not really an incentive to go fast. for a number of years, nasa you can be sure every year they will get your budget. with spacex you had to kill your food to keep living. how does the public feel about nasa, is it still inspiring? there are a couple of things nasa did well, like the parker solar probe. they launched a probe to study dark energy and jupiter. no commercial company will launch a probe to study the sun. these are things that space agencies do, but the other thing the private sector does much better like spacex is much more efficient at launching rockets than the government is. the trick is going to be finding a happy medium, identifying what the government

the last ten or 20 years compared to nasa. launched 200. elon musk and the trump administration will see more efficiency in the space area. why has nasa only launched one rocket in the last few years? well, it's a complicated story, but basically moves to slow cost plus contracts, and there is not really an for a number of years they had nasa you can be sure every year you will get you had to kill your.— you had to kill your. how does the public _ you had to kill your. how does the public feel _ you had to kill your. how does the public feel about - you had to kill your. how does the public feel about naas, i you had to kill your. how does the public feel about naas, is| the public feel about naas, is it still inspiring?— it still inspiring? there are a coule it still inspiring? there are a coume of — it still inspiring? there are a couple of things _ it still inspiring? there are a couple of things nasa - it still inspiring? there are a i couple of things nasa did well, and parker solar probe, they launched a probe to study d

i mean, i turned on nasa tv here and just started watching the mission next up for the blue shift was a blood draw experiments here. >> laurel is telling mike that this isn't going to hurt her a bit. >> i was just thrilled for them. they were. they were doing great. there's pride. i'm excitement but more than anything i just loved listening to rick's voice. i loved listening to him talk back and forth with mission control. houston, columbia full setup's complete. >> and rick, we copy as a kid, it mostly just felt exciting and new and just kind of made your world feel more magical and bigger. >> i was just like, yeah, that's just awesome. space is so cool all of us, as a group were extremely concerned about what we had just seen. >> looking at that film, we were all discussing, how big are we talking about a problem? how much damage are we talking about worst case would have been damage all the way down to the skin of the vehicle that would have given us a problem during landing. that probably would have been loss of vehicle and loss of crew so i went to see wayne my boss based on my 2

will it ever fly again for nasa?is a conflict of interest giving his association with spacex and elon musk, given that is the alternative to boeing. a lot of questions about how much elon musk will have a say in the space program. clearly his imprint will be all over it one way or another with jared in that role. geoff: thank you to you as always. >> you are welcome. ♪ geoff: and that is the "newshour " for tonight. i am geoff bennett. for all of us at the pbs "newshour," thank you for spending part of your evening with us. >> major funding for the pbs "newshour" has been provided by the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions and friends of the "newshour," including jim and nancy and the robert and virginia schiller foundation. the ford foundation. working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide. and with the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions. ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station f

former nasa official also a member of the nasa u app independent study team. welcome, everyone. pleased to have you today. pursuant to committee rule 9g witnesses will, please, stand and raise your right hand. where it gets real. do you solemnly swear to affirm the testimony you are about to give is the truth, the who el truth and nothing but the truth so help you god? let the reported show that the witnesses all answered in the affirmative. we appreciate all of you being here today and look forward to your testimony. let me remind the witnesses that we have read your statements and will appear in the record. pleasing simted. limit oral statements to five minutes. microphone turned on, and that everyone in the room members included can hear you's when you begun to speak the light in front of you turns green. after four munts the light turns yellow. when the red light comes on your five minutes expired and we ask you, please, wrap it up. first, to recognize bureau admiral galodet to please begin your opening remarks. >> thank you, chairwoman mace, chairman grothman and members of

during a hearing, nasa administrator nelson helped affirm nasa's role in understanding uap. mr. gold, if the government doesn't have data it needs on uap, because someone who saw something is concerned about stigma, public backlash, et cetera, or maybe there is not good systems in place, how are we supposed to ultimately figure out what is going on? >> thank you for the question, and let me complement administrator nelson that there wouldn't be the uap independent study team if it wasn't for his leadership and courage. we are talking about data and where we can get data from . as i described. nasa has archives of data, much of which will likely have information that will help inform uap. we need only look. and with arro, we can relatively quickly and easily go through. it is something we should encourage nasa to do. however, focusing on national security sites, there is something we have heard of called sensor bias. because we have more monitoring of activity, we don't know how much of uap is over civilian areas. we are not collecting sufficient data from pilots. we are not coll

that's made it very difficult at nasa. >> yeah.g tangible effects on the things you all are trying to do? >> absolutely. i mean, we have had to cancel programs. >> you mentioned, i know everyone here will be interested about this, what's going on with sending people back to the moon? how close are we? what's your update on that? >> well, we are getting ready to go back, the schedule is next year. we have the crew. it's three americans and a canadian. if you went to central casting in hollywood, you could not do any better. and this crew is the best of the best. we are going to test the spacecraft. we've already done it uncrewed a couple of years ago. we're going back, we'll test out the life support systems. it will circle the moon, come back. then about a year, we will go into lunar orbit, an unusual polar orbit, and it will rendezvous with a spacex lander. and you know the success of spacex most recently in their fifth test of their big starship. and then of the four, two will go down to the lunar surface, and that will be the fi

i think a lot of people just think of nasa as space agency.out what you are doing on the climate side of things? >> nasa is a climate agency, and the reason is, all of those assets up there in space, a couple of dozen, are looking at the earth and taking very sensitive measurements of what is happening, sea level rise, greenhouse gases, the movement of surfaces of the ocean, movement of surfaces on the land, dust storms. we even had a spacecraft called emit that was looking for dust storms and how it affects the climate, and low and behold, it ends up determining where methane is being emitted from the surface of the earth. never before had we had that kind of detail, and methane is one of the greenhouse gases. so you take all of that together put together in a 3d composite, and we are displaying that real time for everybody in what we call the earth information center, and it's not only a physical location at nasa but it's a physical location at the national history museum on the mall and it is available to anybody anywhere in the planet on t

conference at nasa headquars in washington, d.c. bill nelson: we are here to give you an update on artemis. president kennedy when -- went to write stadium and he said we go to the moon and do other things not because it is easy, but because it is hard. space is hard. the endeavor like artemis over half a century after apollo, is hard. it is the pinnacle of new possibilities, the most daring technologically challenging collaborative international endeavor that humanity has ever set out to do and the artemis one test flight was a flight test on a new spacecraft with new technology. during artemis one, the heat shield performed in unexpected ways. and since then, we have been studying data to determine the best path forward. we have done extensive testing to understand the risk that our astronauts will have while accomplishing the goals of landing back on the moon, bringing them home safely, and this will be the first time in over half a century. we have conducted extensive testing, including analyzing samples from the heat shield. we

>> it was a great opportunity to talk about nasa. >> yeah.houston, it should be. >> do you feel like you're getting everything you need resource-wise from capitol hill right now? >> the short answer is no, but it's not because of what they think about nasa. >> yeah. >> it's because of this crazy politics that we have with a handful in the house demanding their way and in order to get the votes just it raise the debt ceiling so the u.s. government can pay its bills and not go into default, they had to pass the fiscal accountability act and the compromise to get the debt ceiling raised was to lower spending in fiscal year 24 and 25. that didn't come out of entitlement programs. that didn't come out of the defense. that comes out of all the rest. >> yeah. >> and that includes nasa and so, in '24 and '25, no, we got cut almost $5 billion over those two years and that's made the allocation of where the funds are going to go innumbererable demands for those funds. that's made it very difficult at nasa. >> so that's having a tangible effects on the

he's a former nasa space biologist and the editor of nasa watch com keith, thanks so much for being backeciate it. can you help us understand? i mean, i think for so many people, obviously the moon landing, i'm dating myself here. i don't remember it myself, but my parents sure remember exactly where they were i mean, this is something that we did a generation ago and now our technology should be so much better. i i feel like there are a lot of people out there being like, why why can't we do this well, i'll date myself, i was 14, i watched it and i remember it like it was yesterday. >> and we were told at the time that we were going to keep doing it. we'd be on mars by 1981. here we are i'll be 70 next year. i'll be in my 70s. >> when we go back to something we did when i was a teenager. so yeah, we're been there, done that, but we're going back. that's the important thing. it's just frustrating that it takes so long so what is it about this technology? >> i mean, if we could build the apollo capsule with computing power that, you know now is dwarfed by what's just in this, in this phon

nasa has now confirmed that it has.cating that it survived the closest ever approach to the sun. we have never had a human—made object so close to the sun. also, we had to not melt, that's why the parker has this heat shield that holds the instruments at room temperature and keeps the heat of the sun away, and these are just amazing feats, and so it's so amazing that we were so close and really getting to measure in detail this material up close. lift—off of the mighty delta iv heavy rocket... there have been many missions to study the sun but there's so much more we can learn — especially the sun's atmosphere, which we can see from earth shimmering during a total solar eclipse. this new data from this very, incredibly close approach to the sun, just touching the surface of that corona, is going to hopefully give us a lot more information about exactly what's going on in our beautiful, beautiful sun that heats up and gives us light. by getting so close, the probe will enable scientists to see how the sun's powerful magn

another qu from the us space space company also provided iconic footage when the future head of nasa billionaire, jared isaac men, looked out into the universe for him on board, the privately financed polaris don mission. the next space x mission involving non professional astronauts is already in planning. like when we were to pressure i think it's crew will include german, scientist, rev b o. hawkeye, pictured on the left launch is slated for spring of 2025. bitcoin millionaire children long on the right is paying for the mission hog. i met him on an expedition to norway's arctic island spits beg, and we saw the polar research here was training for her mission in the u. s. during this interview on the future of commercial space, travel, the pool, the whole point of commercial space travel or new space on is that you want to open it up to as many people as possible. and that should be more inclusive, not just screening people out because they have this or that medical condition space x is really working on taking as many people as possible. but to prove yourself, i'm looking to go t

it's a to nasa facility in houston labs. some posts are stored in nitrogen to protect them from moist. yeah. the, the lunar samples give her such as glimpses into a fall distant past that yeah, cuz i'm going to a pull all of the hollows samples allow us to look back about 4400000000 years. this is not the time, of course, very close to the formation of the planets because we think earth formed 4500000000 years ago. so that means we're very, very close to saying what happened in the beginning, funk plus here showing this chunk of fine flu, deprived, launched in november 2020 its mission to bring some pulse back to us around 5 decade south to the last depaula emissions. the talkative location was specifically chosen to provide missing data understanding gaps in what we already know. chunk of 5 landed in a volcanic area and collected almost 2 kilograms of dustin drugs. the longevity has its success. a chunk of 6 was launched at the beginning of may 2024, to collect trucks for the 1st time from the fall side of the moon. geologi

a nasa spacecraft should by now have passed closer our sun in all its fiery splendour. there's still so much we don't know about it. now the closest—ever encounter is set to finally shed light on our star. three, two, one, zero. nasa's parker solar probe blasted off in 2018, heading to the centre of our solar system. it's been orbiting our star, getting ever nearer, but this latest flyby is taking us to a new frontier — to touch the sun. even though we've had missions that have gone very close to the sun, that wasn't close enough to get into this sort of magic region where all of this physics and all of this — all of these processes are happening, and the the only way to be able to understand those processes is to fly through them and take the data right where all the action is happening. this mission is breaking records. parker solar probe hurtles past the sun at 430,000 miles an hour. no human—made object has ever gone so fast. it's the equivalent of flying from london to new york in less than 30 seconds. at its closest, its 3.8 million miles, a 6.2 million kilometres

nasa's effort to deorbit the space station. five. >> five or six years ago, of course not. started in the first trump administration. >> bret: in 2020 the trump administration released a national space policy thatng a presence. >> commercial platforms. a big factor is the cost. the cost for the u.s. government for something like this. >> let's say we didn't have commercial stations that are ready to go. technically we could keep the space station going. but the ideal is to fly it through 2030 and deorbit it in 2031. >> but since our interview with the nasa doppler radar indicated, some of the agency have signaled that plan could be in jeopardy. >> continuous human presence, what does that mean continuous heart beat or continuous capability? >> bret: is it a possibility that the international space station could deorbit without a new space station ready to go? >> well that, was one of the questions we wanted answered. all of our international partners, all of our intergovernmental partners and almost all of our industry partners agreed continuous presence is continuous heart

got a really nice note from evelyn husband and she just said i just want you to know how much we at nasa appreciate how you cover space i was worried about her and her kids. >> any time a shuttle is going to come to earth, i'd be worried. in this case, i had a little more worry columbia. >> houston. good morning. and we're looking forward to our last day on orbit with you. >> back to houston and it's kind of a mixed emotion that we get ready to come home but there's enough fond memories to last us for a lifetime y wife, laura was on the shuttle. >> she was a scientist, primarily involved with life sciences ryan clark is working on growing prostate cancer cells in the bioreactor one day during the mission i was reviewing the notes and then here's this foam issue during launch, a large piece of foam had come off the external tank and impacted the left wing. and my colleague had this discussion of, hey, you can use a family conference to talk to laurel and find out what she knew you got to remember the hat you're wearing as your flight surgeon hat, not your family hat it would have broken p

he is the editor of nasa watch. com keith, it's wonderful to have you back.nk you so much for being here. so these two astronauts were not expecting to have to celebrate their christmas or, or any holiday that they celebrate right up in the sky. and yet there they are. what does the fact that they got stranded there? the situation with boeing say, about where we are on these big picture things we're trying to do go back to the moon and go to mars? >> well, you know, normally the answer, if you don't have an answer is space is hard, which is sort of like punting on the obvious. >> but rocket science difficult. it's actually rocket science. >> it is. >> there is rocket science involved. but in this case here, the idea was that you were going to buy two differ ways to get people to the space station commercially, and if one didn't work, the other would be there. well, if one didn't work, the other was there, but they had a scheduling issue. and this is just like expeditions i've been on where the plane comes in and there's nine seats and ten people. yeah, you go

nasa is now targeting late march to bring them to earth. the postponement brings nasa and spacex time to complete processing for a new spacecraft. >>> the east coast bracing for another round of rain. angie lassman is tracking the system for us. angie, good morning. it's rain boots, not snow boots at least when it comes to the next several days. >> a couple spots might need to break out some snow boots, but most of the northeast and other folks around the region, not so much. we do have rain ramping across the country. we have flood alerts from arkansas to kentucky. that's where we'll likely see flood alerts. that system is going to be on the move as the day goes on. it arrives for the northeast and mid atlantic later today. and there's a little bit of the snow that might make you break out the snow boots. then we see this next system start to emerge. that's going to bring us snow for parts of the upper midwest as we get into tomorrow. 50 million people under these dense fog advisories. we've got fog and low visibilities across this region,

spacex is may be the biggest contractor nasa has now.a very unique pick for the agency that i don't think we have seen before. caroline: bill nelson. are there ways in which they have protections in place to not have these blurred lines for someone who ultimately does not work for spacex but has piled a lot of is personal fortune using spacex? lauren: i believe there are some areas where he might have to recuse himself. if he has an investment in spacex where he holds shares, it's possible he might have to divest those. if there are major decisions being made about future contracting, it is possible he might have to recuse himself from making those decisions. a lot of the times nasa administrators don't get into those nitty-gritty details. is a lot of open questions a lot of people will be asking. anytime nasa makes a decision on a major contract, those can get quite contentious. we saw that when they put out bids for the human landing system. spacex won but blue origin sued nasa and the government over that decision. those decisions can

. >>> when we come back, nasa wants to help you enjoy the holidays in a way only nasa would imagine.er careful review of medical guidance and research on pain relief, my recommendation is simple: every home should have salonpas. powerful yet non-addictive. targeted and long-lasting. i recommend salonpas. it's good medicine. ♪ hisamitsu ♪ >>> finally tonight, the holiday season is here. the weather is cooling down. what better way to relax than sitting in front of a warm fire listening to the relaxing sounds of rocket engines? you can maybe think it's the ocean or not. you're looking at nasa's unique twist on the yule log trend. usually these videos feature a crackling fireplace, maybe christmas music to set a holiday mood without an actual fireplace. this is nasa's version which plays on a loop for eight hours straight, sound from the rs-25 engines that launched the artemis 1 rocket to the moon in november 2022. interesting. i do like the fire better and a real one. >>> the cbs evening news with norah o'donnell is next on kpix. local news continues on our stre >> norah: president bid

nasa has now confirmed it has.craft sent a beacon signal indicating that it survived the closest ever approach to the sun. >> we have never had a human made object so close to the sun. also, we had to not melt. that is why parker has this heat shield that holds the instruments at room temperature and keeps the heat of the sun away. these are amazing feats, so it is so amazing that we are so close at really getting to measure in detail this material up close. reporter: lift off of the mighty delta 4 heavy rocket. reporter: there have been many heavy missions to study the sun, but there is so much more we can learn, especially about the sun's shimmering atmosphere, which we can see from earth during a total solar eclipse. >> this new data from this very incredibly close approach of the sun, just touching the surface of that corona, is going to hopefully give us lots more information about exactly what is going on in our beautiful, beautiful son that heats up and gives us light. reporter: close-up, the sun's magnetic

it didn't happen because nasa deemed it to be unsafe.o they've been waiting up at the international space station as part of a crew rotation. right. so you have to wait until the next crew and the next spacecraft is ready to come up there and relieve you. so crew nine came up. now they're waiting for crew ten. that is that was supposed to be in february. now we just learned it's going to be delayed one month until mid to late march of 2025. and the reason why, according to nasa and spacex, and i'm quoting here, they say they need extra time to complete processing on a new dragon spacecraft for the mission. so this is you know, spacex has a lot of dragon spacecrafts. they've been used quite frequently. it's the primary means by which nasa astronauts get to and from the international space station. so they've been planning on getting this new one up and running. it's just not quite ready yet. so for butch and sunny, it means they've got to wait at least one more month, wolf. >> and talk a little bit, kristen, about the mental and physical

go, nasa! go, spacex! -from revolutionizing space exploration with spacex to leading the electric vehicle revolution with tesla... -there was a time when electric cars seemed very stupid, and it wasn't that long ago. -...to ventures in solar panels, ai, even chips in human brains. -he's not actually using a keyboard. he's moving the cursor with his mind. -his controversial takeover of twitter, now x, cemented his role as both a visionary disruptor and polarizing figure. -he's pushing the bounds. there's something slightly unnerving about that, but also i think we need a little bit of an injection of that in the american psyche. -best-selling biographer walter isaacson spent two years inside musk's universe. i interviewed isaacson last year when his biography of elon musk came out, a work that delves into the convictions and inner demons that drive musk. -the absolute intense person is what's getting his rockets launched. it also makes him a very difficult character. -what does author, journalist, and profe

we'll get the latest now from our washington correspondent some lot. >> nasa says the mission decadese making is delayed again decision. >> has been made first around safety, nasa pushed artemis to a mission to take astronauts around the moon from september of 2025. >> to april of 2026, artemis 3 plans to land astronauts on the moon. that won't happen until mid 2027 nasa administrator bill nelson invoked president john f kennedy, he says we go any the other thing. >> not because they are easy, but because they space is >> that's ahead to push the second launch because they found cracks in the heat shield after the first mission in 2022. artemis one went around the moon with nobody on board. we were able to recreate the problem here on earth and now we know the root cause. nasa hopes to put people back on the moon before 2030, and a new 21st century space race can't think of a time. perhaps that's one. i was a little boy that the quote, space race has been more important. house science space and technology committee chairman frank lucas and nelson agree the u.s. should be china back to

trump's choice to lead nasa. there were more space tourist flights in 24, and a private probe named odysseus landed on the moon, but then tipped over. 2025 will be a year of private business and china pushing to go farther, faster. for today, tom costello, nbc news, washington. well, today is the end of an era for the market that's provided the flowers for so many family moments, from weddings and anniversaries to memorials and other ceremonies. san francisco flower market is moving. this is after nearly six decades in south of market district. nbc bay area's kris sanchez joining us now on kris. this is really an iconic market. i've been there a few times. oh, yes, they are trying to move the bay area forward by helping this market stay alive. now, the physical move to a different location is just one of the big changes. the other is that after 112 years in business, the san francisco flower market is going to become a nonprofit. now, the sign announcing that move has been in the in the making for about a decade,

a record—smashing kiss of the sun, as nasa's solar probe makes history, with the closest ever approacho the star. and pope francis will mark christmas eve with a special ceremony shortly to launch a jubilee holy year for catholics around the world. hello and welcome to bbc news. american airlines says flights are resuming after it was forced to briefly ground all services at the start of christmas eve, one of the busiest travel days hello and welcome to bbc news. american airlines says flights are resuming after it was forced to briefly ground all services at the start of christmas eve, one of the busiest travel days of the year. the airline blames a vendor technology issue but says it has been resolved. the computer outage led to some passengers being told to get back off their plane shortly before they were due to take off. one passenger posted this on social media. over intercom: thank - you so much for your patience. if you would so kindly grab your belongings... american airlines computers are down. we are deplaning. breaking news. i think this is a national computer failure. amer

nasa says spacex needs more time to get that spacecraft ready for flight, pushing that launch back toe march. nasa does not want wilmore and williams to leave until the new crew arrives so the station was recently restocked with everything the crew needs including water, and oxygen. the space agency asked that "special items" to celebrate the holidays are also on board. >> norah: i hope so, we are thinking of those astronauts. manny, thank you. millions of americans are banking on a senate vote to help them through their golden years. an update on social security next. update on social security next. but a treatment can be. keytruda is known to treat cancer. fda-approved for 17 types of cancer, including certain early-stage and advanced cancers. one of those cancers is early-stage non—small cell lung cancer. keytruda may be used with certain chemotherapies before surgery when you have early-stage lung cancer, which can be removed by surgery, and then continued alone after surgery to help prevent your lung cancer from coming back. keytruda can cause your immune system to attack healthy

and a nasa spacecraft makes history — flying closer to the sun than ever before hello, i'm naomi choy. thank you forjoining us. an israeli negotiation team returns to israel on tuesday night for "internal consultations" after a "significant" week of negotiations in qatar. that's according to prime minister benjamin netanyahu's office. officials say that both sides have shown a greater willingness to reach a deal but that key details must still be worked out. it comes as israel intensifies its attacks in gaza. the territory's health ministry reports: three hospitals in the north were targeted earlier on tuesday — forcing patients to evaucate. meanwhile: christmas celebrations in bethlehem are muted for the second year since the israel—hamas war began. these are pictures of midnight mass at the nativity church in the holy city — which hasjust finished up. local authorities have scaled down festivities and ceremonies — with church leaders providing spiritual guidance to those in grief. our correspondent, shaimaa khalil, is in bethlehem. midnight mass at the nativity church ushers in yet