Page 21 - Apollo 13 News Today

Christa mcauliffe flight have school kids been playing such close attention to a space flight has they are this one. >> absolutely. and think about haley there on the flight, physicians assistant, but also overcame childhood cancer. she is not only the youngest american to go into space, but the first with a prosthesis, so you have children and individual of all different abilities who now say this might be something within my reach. >> jon: we dont have an aircraft carrier out there as we used ...

And thats the heart beat of the u.s. economy, so weve got to keep doing this. >> jon: the chicago museum of science has an actual lunar lander on display. it was intended for one of the apollo missions. i think it was apollo 20 that ultimately never flew, but it is there. i was privileged to climb into it with jim lovell, the astronaut who flew many times, but is probably best known for the apollo 13 mission that never made it to land on the moon and yet was an incredible success in the face of ...

0 these are people with families, and the goal here really has been heartwarming. i think youve probably seen the footage of the interactions that this crew has had with children in the hospital. i mean, its been a fund-raising campaign for st. judes, 200 million dollars has been the goal. and theres been all kinds of interaction from them there. it just has been an amazing experience to see regular americans, like you and i, in space. only less than 600 people -- >> jon: hang on a second, alexa...

Managed and i believe these folks will have a great time. find managed and i believe these folks will have a great time.— managed and i believe these folks will have a great time. and be less than the very _ will have a great time. and be less than the very best. _ will have a great time. and be less than the very best. it _ will have a great time. and be less than the very best. it sets - will have a great time. and be less than the very best. it sets off- than the very best. it sets off at ...

Lets bring in friend of the programme and retired nasa astronaut, leroy chiao. whenever icd stories, i always think back to the movie apollo 13. what if it goes wrong for these four non—astronauts up there above the earth. non-astronauts up there above the earth. . r . , non-astronauts up there above the earth. , ., , earth. there is risk in any space fliuht, earth. there is risk in any space flight, lunching on _ earth. there is risk in any space flight, lunching on top - earth. there is risk...

Tom Hanks is saying so long to his home from home, a 1992 Airstream that he lived in...

Sfwltoday. >> quickly, today. we are watching commercialization of parts of space. what is nasas mission if private companies are now jumping into this aspect of space travel or exploration or whatever you want to call it? >> in some respects, i think its a good for nasa that private companies are jumping into this space. nasas budget back in the days of apollo was 4% of the total federal budget. now its 0.4% of the total budget. its 25 b$25 billion a year, wh is -- thats a lot of money. but wer...

Nonetheless does illustrate things a little bit. >> talk to us a little bit about safety. as much as this is exciting, there is so much risk involved in going into space always. the american space program has experienced some of these highs and some of the lows with the expl explosions. how confident are you that this is going to be a safe mission, especially for branson? the virgin galactic had a test pilot die in 2014. there is something hanging over this scenario here. >> yes. space is, by de...

He doesnt because that would be impossible. a household name that no one can spell correctly. carlie! >> [cheers and applause]. >> he goes deep undercover and not even here tonight. brian. comedian joe machi. >> [cheers and applause]. >> like apollo 13. things go wrong but nobody dies. i go to you first, joe. because you are rocking the members only. hoping to bring it back? >> it never went out of style if i am wearing it it. i keep the clothes and hopefully in a couple of decades they come bac...

Arturo B. Campos is one step closer to receiving a major posthumous honor in the form of...