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Darrell issa sending a letter to the board of the post office that is, urging them to continue getting ready to end saturday mail delivery. maybe the end is not decided yet. heather: nasa history up for sale. artifacts used to get to space and back headed to the auction block. it includes pieces from the troubled apollo 13 mission that of course inspired the hit hollywood movie. david lee miller got a sneak peek. he is here live. he will tell us what some of the most exciting artifacts are. >> r...

Jon: right now, bitters are getting amped up hoping to take a home a piece of space history. hundreds of items go up for auction ad the sale is expected to rake in big bucks. david lee miller has details from our new york city newsroom. what is for sale, david, and how much? >> reporter: jon, in total there are 250 items ranging from spacesuit gloves to photos. some of the space memorabilia will go for a few hundred dollars and rare items could fetch more than 100,000. one the more valuable arti...

The notes are expected to fetch $60,000. also dehydrated potato soup from apollo 13 the price is expected to be 6 to $8,000. a dollar bill signed by teacher chris at this mcauliffe and members of the challenger space shuttle that exploded 73 seconds after takeoff is also being auctioned. the starting bid is expected to be $1,000. it will get underway at bonhams auction house here in new york city. jon? jon: nasa has some budget problems but theyre not selling this stuff, are they? >> reporter: n...

It would not be the same old going with speaker weaver. >> just call it even, okay. >> i would say we take off and nuke the entire site. >>neil: you cannot leave out clint. >> want to make my day. okay. >>neil: he would be different. if he gets off a chair and get as laugh, speaker, feeling lucky, he can talk to a president and get a deal. more apollo 13 commander, who better to fix washington problems than a guy who tackled the ultimate problem. >> houston, we have a problem. >> he gets my vote...

The brave men know there is no hope for their recovery, but they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice, that would have been read if you did not make it. >> we were pioneers. it was doing something that was never done anywhere. >> armstrong and collins and aldrin splashed in 1969 in the pacific and the space race was over. >> coming up in the 1960s there was a hit tv show "lost in space" and a movie "marooned" as long as humans dreamed of exploring the heaven they shuddered...

American in space who had not been in space since that flight in 1961. >> he had been grounded for about nine years, and wiser heads in management said, wait, he doesnt have that much training, we can give him more training, would you mind taking 13, we will give 1314. they said, 13 would be fine >>neil: it would give lovell who went to space three times and orbited the moon, his chance to walk on the surface that much sooner. apollo 13 launched at 13:13 and would enter orbit on april 13 but the...

Training so far. we need to give him more training. would you mind taking 13 we are going to give shepherd 14. i said 13 would be fine. >> anothmore than fine tooled i lovely a chance to walk on the surface that much sooner. apollo 13 launched at 13:13 military time. it was set to enter lunar orbit on the 13th of april. the crew love vel, hayes had nothing but good luck. they finished a broadcast showing how comfortably they lived and worked in waitnessless. >> this is apollo 13. nice evening. >...

Two separate burns made from the command module. it was one of missions control greatest achievement. it generated necessary procedures to do this in three-days. something like that would normally take three months. >> we got smarter and smarter and smarter. then it became less dont make no mistake. >> people hoped for a miracle. they got one. apollo 13 crashed down safely on april 17th. >> it was a failure in the initial mission but in reality it was a triumph in the go sabi of people to over c...

Training so far. we need to give him more training. would you mind taking 13 we are going to give shepherd 14. i said 13 would be fine. >> anothmore than fine tooled i lovely a chance to walk on the surface that much sooner. apollo 13 launched at 13:13 military time. it was set to enter lunar orbit on the 13th of april. the crew love vel, hayes had nothing but good luck. they finished a broadcast showing how comfortably they lived and worked in waitnessless. >> this is apollo 13. nice evening. >...

Together. >>heather: sign me up. you can catch brenda and maybe new gold pieces at 10:00 a.m. on saturday here here. >>gregg: this is the last time, 40 years ago, a united states astronaut walked on the moon and neil cavuto anchored a fox news special on that subject. here is a bit of it. >> the crew of apollo 13, a nice evening. >> 56 hours into the flight they finished a broadcast showing how comfortably they lived and worked in space. >> we are closing out things and getting back to flying. >...