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Dna in space. can you tell us about that? >> that was actually just this last summer and it is a real example of what we can do with technology and innovation. weve gotten a sequencer down to the size of your cell phone and able to fly it on the space station and sequence dna. not just a demonstration but we can actually use it to do things like detect microbes on the space station, look at astronaut health and easily use that in earth-based settings to look for disease outbreaks and to do rural...

Astronaut is having a phone call with the president. drop on in. >> president trump: theyre watching this conversation from the classroom and all over we have astronauts and we have everybody. were flying right now 17,000 miles per hour. thats about as fast as ive ever heard. i wouldnt want to be flying 17,000 miles an hour but thats what you do. peggy, jack and kate. i know american students are thrilled to hear from you. first i want to say this is a very special day in the glorious history of...

For his record breaking stay on the international space station. 535 cumulative days in space tops the mark held by jeff williams. congratulations to him. she is the first woman to command the space station not once, but twice and holds the record for most space walks by a female astronaut. the white house is inviting schools across the country to be on the call to encourage students in stem. im looking forward to it myself. >> shannon: fascinating. can you tell us who else will be in the oval o...

Did it. and one of the things that were trying to encourage is young women who pursue science, technology, engineering and math studies. there are so many students, space being one of them. but it was a really good and important moment the highlight the opportunities available and the real look to the future. thousands, if not millions of young people across this country were tuned into the broadcast, to the interview, to the live phone call, and we hope that many of them will be encouraged to p...

About this over the weekend giving us a sense there are black and white lines but there might be some gray here. we want to change topics for a moment. president trump is holding a video conference with astronauts on board the international space station to congratulate peggy who has broken the record for the most cumulative days in space. >> peggy jack and kate, i know that americas students are thrilled to hear from you. but first i want to say this is a special day in the glorious history o...

The latest step towards making that dream a reality by reiterating nasas mission to make sure united states maintains a leader in space travel. nasa will have the full support it needs including supporting nasas plan to explore deep space and sending astronauts to mars, including an endorsement of launching the mars 2020 rover. the rover will explore a site that is likely to have been seeking signs of past life and testing samples for future robotic and eventual human exploration of mars. reaffi...

Who shouldnt be voting. you also have 32 states now that have voter i.d. laws. so, i think we need to put pressure on this. it is a democracy, you can vote if you are a citizen. need to continue to press on the ends of it and make sure that it needs -- >> bill: i want to find out if anyone from outer space has voted, some aliens, you know, going to bv very illegal. if you want to go talk to the aliens, you can. roll the tape. >> space x, a private record company, is going where no man or woman h...

It was a little dicey because if she did it too soon we would all die. heather: this is all about the orion which is not currently up in space but it is when they get that up and running they will be able to go into deep space. janice: i was cap con communicating to the astronauts to make sure they had a safe landing. i cant believe we dont have the rest of that tape. ainsley: we will fix it is this space food? heather: stuff we brought back for you guys. everybody that worked at nasa were fanta...

Bust errs. ghostbusters. steve: who are you going to call? the people from "fox & friends." steve: thats the orion capsule. we are going to do a simulation where heather and i are coming back after two and a half years in space together and probably no longer talking to each other. >> what happened? that was the best part. heather: two and a half years in space together and got stuck. steve: we actually got inside the capsule and i was in charge of driving the space capsule so that we didnt skip...

♪ steve: welcome to nasa we are at the mission control where all systems are a go. come on if there. heather: talk to people in space. steve: janice. janice: lets get this mission done. steve: you dont say lets get this mission done you say lets light this candle. >> he is right. lets light this candle. ♪ steve: all right. before a mission, we have got to learn astronaut stuff. let me out of here. boom boom boom. >> im sorry, dave, im afraid i cant do that. heather: that looks good. steve: s...