otb is tonight starting at 8:00 p.m.tern on "c-span2" the longest serving nassau flying to director reflect on his life and career during this conversation of the 2021, tucson festival of books. wrote several houston life in the center seat of mission control. >> twenty is for today is paul, and for decades of aviation

otb is tonight starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern on "c-span2" the longest serving nassau flying to director reflect on his life and career during this conversation of the 2021, tucson festival of books. wrote several houston life in the center seat of mission control. >> twenty is for today is paul, and for decades of aviation experience as a builder and pilot and from nasa in 2013, the longest-serving flight director in history and the leader of several missions. an outstanding leadership, three of the service metals and presidential medal. in leadership consultant, and former editor-in-chief of magazine in his book life in the center seat of mission control. hall is going to have you hereby the weight. >> thank you and is going to be here. >> talk a little bit about the book and how it came about why did you write this. paul: well i guess the first thing to say is that were getting a little echo here but the very first flight director was chris back in those days and chris read a book about his days in space program and th

. >> reporr: no otbe outdone -- >> the american passes by everybody!rter: bobby finke's epic comeback and that last 50 meters will be remembered for a long time. >> ledecky is putting the charge into the race. >> reporter: the american 4x200 relay team led by katie ledecky, the u.s. edging past the heavily favored australians d finishing behind china who set a world record. finally a tough blow for u.s. track and field. american pole vaulter sam kendricks testing positive for covid-19 knocking him out of tokyo. you may remember during the rio games, kendricks a member of the u.s. army reserves, stopped the vault mid attempt when he heard the national anthem playing. kendricks is such a class act. i want to go back to suni lee and everything we saw at the gymnastics center. we were talking about this, hoda, while she's competing for the gold medal and going from discipline to discipline, she actually sees hoda and she starts to smile. doing the heart emoji. it just showed that she was so cool under pressure that she was sort of in the zone, but she was