thomas moore cathedral school in arlington, virginia s the first grade school in the nation to put a the main payload is a small camera, which will beam photographs back to earth using an antenna that fifth grader felix helped build. >> it does take a picture every 30 seconds. >> reporter: sixth grader gabe is in charge of communications, which means he gets to be on tv too. >> you're expecting some cool pictures? >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: the teacher says it was supposed to be a one to two-year project, but because of some setbacks, including the explosion of an unmanned space station in 2014, it took a sometimes agonizing four years. >> what do you think is the most important thing they learned? >> what we didn't plan on teaching them was the perseverance it would take to actually get this project completed. and we're still not done. >> reporter: still not done because they're still waiting for the satellite to send a signal with its first photograph from space. >> and how nervous are you about whether you're going to hear a signal? >> okay, i can put it into one word. aarrgghhh! >

. >> reporter: now saint thomas moore cathedral school in arlington, virginia, the first grade schoolion to put a satellite in orbit. the main payload is a small camera which will beam photographs become to earth using an antenna that fifth grader felix pelligrin helped build. >> we don't control where it take is a picture. take is a picture every 30 second. >> he gets to be on tv too. you are expecting cool pictures? >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: teacher emily stocker says supposed to be a one to two year project. but because of set backs, explosion of an unmanned space station bound rocket in 2014 it took a sometimes agonizing four years. what do you think is the most important thing they learned? >> what we didn't plan on teaching was perseverance it would take to get the project completed. we are still not done. >> reporter: still not done because they're waiting for the satellite to send a signal with the first photograph from space. and how nervous are you about whether you are going to hear a signal? >> i sccan put it into one word. arghh! >> reporter: that is space talk for please

thomas moore cathedral school in arlington won a nasa competition to launch their own satellite.cube-sat as it is called, transported to the international space station in december and finally deployed today. >> it is very fun. i will be amazing when the pictures come to us. michelle: it sure will be. all students from the pre-k through the eighth grade had a part to construct it. raising the bar here for the other kids. jonathan: erin hawksworth is joining us now and there is a family where somebody waited a long time before they went to see the first game. erin: that is right. a 90-year-old world war ii vietnam veteran who was a sports reporter many years ago and never had an opportunity to go to a game. till now. take a look. >> i am impressed. erin: it's hard to believe that tom had never attended a major league baseball game. until now. >> was it your wish for your birthday this year to attend a game? >> no, it wasn't. i was hoping for an amazon gift card. but this is fantastic. erin: his sense of humor isn't lacking. neither is nationals. >> you watch every game. is that ri

. >>> 400 students at thomas moore cathedral celebrated monday after nasa released the cube satellitento space. >> it was awesome and that was the first time i watched it in space. >> once the antenna deploys it is going to take a pick of earth anam seconds. >> you will see the pictures. >> yes. >> emily socker let the mission at the school, a kindergarten teacher. >> the lesson is perseverance. you can do anything. >> the father of one of the stories came up with the satellite idea and admits he had ulterior motive. >> this gentleman is a scientist. >> we need engineers and scientists. >> what do you think? >> we did it. >> 6th grader mcphail's mother was overcome with joy. >> did i see you wipe a tear away. >> yes. this is personal for me, yes. >> the satellite battery should last nine months powering inspiration for schools around the globe. mark albert, cbs news, arlington, virginia. the equipment needed to down load the satellite pictures from space for $200. >>> it is the same technology used by the apollo mission to send back those stunning images half a century ago. >>> right

thomas moore elementary school in northern virginia, first elementary school to send a spacecraft intopace this week. >> elementary school? >> elementary school. it was launched off the international space station. it was among a lot of cube sats that was sent to station on a probably orbital or a spacex vehicle because we have room to do that. so there's an elementary school in northern virginia that can now brag about my spacecraft is up there doing stuff. and once you get that into kids -- i did science fairs. my seventh grade science teacher turned me on to science fairs, and i never looked back. i can guarantee you these kids at st. thomas moore, they are never going to be told we can't do that because they're going to say when i was in elementary school i made a satellite. what do you mean you can't do that? >> can't top that. >> elroy jetson. >> this is an area where nasa doesn't get enough credit because the iss and to a certain extent ames and other centers have really pushed the ball forward on the small sat front. and through iss has been sort of seeding the small sat market

maybe if you put your own name on it they might be offended by, one of the greatest examples, sir thomas moore utopia was scathing rebuke of monarchy what is happening at the culture at the time. they eventually burned him at stake, by writing first in the book utopia. he escaped persecution originally and got people to listen to his ideas. this is way to get around some of the political correctness and maybe some walls we built in our culture between different idealogical dividing lines or theological lines and objective look at what has become of us as a people and where we're going if we don't turn back. >> host: ben shapiro says that steve deace's humorous new book take as wry, satirical look at future that faces america as she continues down the path of unchecked leftism. mr. deace, we're talking to you in early march here at cpac. if you were to write a story about this election season so far what would you entitle it, what would you write. >> guest: instead of primary colors, it would be paradigm shift. you're watching a massive paradigm shift happen in the american electorate. what is

simply, shakespeare may have written parts of other parts of plays, for example, sir thomas moore.ich really looks like it's by shakespeare, it may even be in his handwriting. but i think your question is a really good one. how can one person have such reach? the answer partly is that he, in addition to being a fantastically talented person, was part of a collaborative art form in an urban environment that was rapidly getting contact with trade and other cultures. science was coming online. so all of that including printing, which means that his words get to last beyond the performance, come together. and that's what helps us get shakespeare. it's a convergence of circumstances. and i would just add that alongside the fact that he probably was a remarkable person. >> host: we have somebody here in the audience. >> hello. my name is eva are mcnabb, i'm the daughter of the man who was just at the mic. [laughter] so as you said, i'm a lilley mckee fellow here at the folger, very pleased and honored to be one. like father, like daughter. i was also thinking about how we assume the thin

thomas. good morning. >>> welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up in this half hour, julianne moore'sriend," a big departure for her down to her accent. she's in our toyota green room. hey, julianne moore! could you say hello to charlie in your georgette accent? no -- >> no, no, where's charlie? >> he's right here. >> charlie, i can't -- i can't do an accent. i know -- i can't, i can't. >> all right. we understand. >>> we'll look back at the early days of her career from "as the world turns," in a soap opera. >>> now time for headlines. "the new york times" reports on a surge in ecigarette poisonings in children under the age of 6. researchers looked at the period of january, 2012, to april, 2015. monthly calls to a poison center related to ecigarette exposure increased more than 15 times. most cases involve swallowing liquid nicotine. at least one child died. >>> and "the star ledger" in new jersey reports on the mystery surrounding the only powerball jackpot winner. saturday's lottery numbers were 5-25-26-44-66, the powerball was 9. the jackpot is worth nearly $430 million. this is

thomas. police are searching for the gunman who target add teenage near midnight drive-by shooting. the 17 year old victim is in critical condition, after investigators say he was hit by ten shots near moore ferry. his name has not been released, police say the shooter got away in a brown suv or mini-van. >> now, let's get a check on the eyewitness weather forecast, meteorologist, katie fehlinger is live in the weather center looks like very nice day overall, it is little chillier by comparison to what we typically are used to for mid may, break out extra sweatshirt or fleece when you walk out the door, chilly, but storm scan is empty, so high pressure is here to bring us the sunshine, look at the temperature values, now just cracking past the freezing mark mount pocono finally freeze warning has gone out of effect as has the frost vest have i through the lehigh valley and portions of berks county, four's generally up and down i95, and at this point of the morning, little cool for the standards, again, mid may. so at best we can expect 55 gross, despite the sun shire today. tomorrow next disturbance passes by to the so, just close enough to see some off and on rain showers, wednesday, sho