peggy whitson among the astronauts with us. peggy, when i was growing up and following the apollo program, before you knew much about the american business and how nasa worked, there were logos often on the side of the screen. you'd see them on pieces of equipment, and they said things like rockwell and things like grummett, and you grow up and learn that the lm was mastered by long island, rockwell did the command module and so on and so forth. this is different than that. the american government is saying, here. here's the mission, you be our contractor. it used to be a lot like a car manufacturer taking dashboard, steering wheel from different contractors. are you bothered by any part of this? >> well, no. not really. i think our future exploration is going to rely on the fact we have to come up with new ways to integrate commercial industry, the government, our international partnerships. space flight is incredibly expensive, and for exploration to continue, it's got to include new pathways. i think this is a great example o

peggy whitson joining us, former nasa astronaut. rself has done -- gosh, what, ten spacewalks i believe? 655 days in space for her. moments ago, peggy, you told us that at some point they would get up. and they are doing that pressure test now? at least i think so, they are hooked up to hoses. they have closed their shields, they arthe cleared shields. tell us what feels like and said that suit. >> once they are getting pressurized, basically you feel kind of like the pillsbury dough girl. [laughs] so, it's pressurizing on you. if you try and move your arms or your hands, you are working against that pressure. so it's a little more challenging in that situation. but that's why suit design is so important, because you still have to be able to function. if, for instance, there was a cabin depressurization and they would need to perform this procedure is to come back to earth, they still have to be able to make those commands on the vehicle and make sure that happens correctly. also, during the rendezvous, there is the potential they mi

it's been our great joy and honor and privilege to have these two veteran astronauts peggy whitson andon with us for what we sure thought was going to be coverage of this spacex launch today. thank you, we'll do this again. but we greatly appreciate it sharing the air waves with you. nicolle and i will take a break. when we come back -- among other things, a better than average meteorologist standing by with a look at what the weather is looking like on saturday along the space coast in florida. - [narrator] did you just reward yourself for spending a perfectly reasonable amount of time on the couch with tacos from grubhub? grubhub's gonna reward you for that with a $5 off perk. (doorbell rings) - [crowd] grubhub! (fireworks exploding) >>> brian, it was good as long as it lasted. it was good to talk about something other than donald trump's abdication of leadership during a global pandemic. >> yeah, i'm tempted to say something like, i thought maybe space was going to be the answer if only for one day, if only for this brief shining moment of happy distraction to make us feel good abou