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Became a test pilot. in 1962, he was chosen as part of the first group of astronauts selected after the mercury 7. his name may not be a household one. but many inside the space program believe his accomplishments rival those of shepard, glen and armstrong. >> his legacy in american space history really is in some ways more significant than armstrongs. johns career, with nasa, is over 40 years long. and he was -- he was so important to the entire human space flight program. >> reporter: during t...

Pilot. in 1962, he was chosen as part of the first group of astronauts selected after the mercury 7. his name may not be a household one, but many inside the space program believe his accomplishments rival those of shepard, glen and armstrong. >> his legacy in american space history really is in some ways more significant than armstrongs. johns career, with nasa, is over 40 years long. and he was -- he was so important to the entire human space flight program. >> reporter: during that time, abou...

Movie called "hidden figures." >> we have the women that changed the course of the history of the nation, and we dont know about them. >> she plays one of the black women at nasa who did the math that put men in space, and growing up in west virginia, numbers were always on johnsons mind. >> i counted everything. i am counting plates when i washed dishes. >> she graduated college at 18, and then on to nasa, becoming an unsung hero behind historic missions, by allen shepherd and john glenn, who i...

Brevard. what makes brevard different than detroit? >> the skilled highly technical workers that you had on the space coast, centered around the kennedy space center are an irreplaceable talented pool. if you wish to restart the space program or restart our human space flight program, accelerate it the people are not there as a resource. and weve wasted a major national investment over the last 30 years by not following up the retirement of the shuttle with a more ambitious successor program out...

endorsements but a bit of a dark cloud on the horizon. more on that in just a moment, but, first, his fight for the gop nomination. a new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll shows him with a commanding lead over mitt romney. the other candidates trailing far behind. paul steinhauser is in washington. paul, the same poll shows gingrich struggling in a head-to-head race against president obama. tell us about that. >> that horse race poll and two others indicate the same thing. way ahead ...

thats more than were killed by hurricanes, lightning, tornadoes, and floods combined. cnn meteorologist chad meyers joins us. its more than the heat. >> its more than humidity. if you set your steam roam at a gym at 105. that feels like 200 degrees. even though its 105, it feels so much hotter because your body cannot perspire, and it cannot cool itself down. a sauna is 160 or 170, but it feels cooler because the air is dry. now, this is a 10-year average, 170 people die of heat-relate...

Astronauts just as we all did here in astonishment as endeavour blasted off for the 25th and final time of its long storied career. there were no photos of her released. still being kept very private her recovery. her chief of staff did update us a little bit. they say she does understand sarcasm which is food because thats linguistically very complex. >> its exciting she was able to reach those goals and get here. she adores mark and supports his career. very proud of him and whole human space ...

President reagan was determined that the program would go on. were his dreams realized? >> for a while. we seem to have to relearn the lessons of history over and over again. we went through this in apollo and we remember the apollo one crew. i was in grade school in florida. we remember the challenger school, which i was an air force pilot. and then the lesson again most recently with columbia, all on similar dates, end of january-beginning of february. and we seem to learn from our lessons, ge...

Years now since kennedys vision. that we had a destination with dates and we want to make sure were not overly dependent on commercial space flight or the russians, which for us, would not be entirely reliable. >> so, the greatest concern in terms of competition comes from china and russia, saying theyre going to get back to the moon first and beyond? >> im not really obsessed with whether we go to the moon. i want to make sure that the human space flight, that we maintain our supremacy in that ...

Shortly. speaking of sending a message, tomorrow the president unveils his new vision for americas space program, one that includes retiring the space shuttle and cutting thousands of jobs in the human space flight program. could this be the end of the final frontier? what kind of message led a florida man to an 11-year-old girl lost in a swamp for days? he says he prayed and god showed him the way. could there actually be something special going on in your brain when you pray? dr. sanjay gu...