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Countrys birth in the cosmos. astronauts peggy whitson and jack fischer, beaming down this video from the international space station. check out those pants. peggy posting on twitter, heres what happens when space folk take some pictures to show their usa pride. microgravity allows for some cool poses. happy birthday, usa. thanks so much for watching on this fourth of july. im tom llamas in new york. david muir will be right back here tomorrow night. have a great evening. good night. night. have...

>> president trump: great. what are we learning from having you spending your time up there? i know so much research is done. im getting a glimpse of some of it here in the oval office. what are we learning by being in space? >> i think probably the international space station is providing a key bridge from us doing -- living on earth to going somewhere into deep space. on those mars missions we need to better understand how microgravity is affecting our body and need to understand it in great d...

Happen. >> reporter: amazing to think about how far weve come, and companies like spacex continue to succeed, harris, how far we can go. harris: some of the reading for today, i follow some of the people on twitter, they were disappointed. there was a high school in bellevue, washington, counting on this happening because they had something special on board. >> reporter: thats right, you may remember in high school, i remember having the soda bottles and launching them in the air. that was the e...

>> reporter: amazing to think about how far weve come, and companies like spacex continue to succeed, harris, how far we can go. harris: some of the reading for today, i follow some of the people on twitter, they were disappointed. there was a high school in bellevue, washington, counting on this happening because they had something special on board. >> reporter: thats right, you may remember in high school, i remember having the soda bottles and launching them in the air. that was the extent of...

About how far weve come, and companies like spacex continue to succeed, harris, how far we can go. harris: some of the reading for today, i follow some of the people on twitter, they were disappointed. there was a high school in bellevue, washington, counting on this happening because they had something special on board. >> reporter: thats right, you may remember in high school, i remember having the soda bottles and launching them in the air. that was the extent of our experiments. these studen...

And as of today, scott has spent a record 383 days in space over the course of his career. thats more than any other american ever. to mark this occasion, im joined by scotts twin brother, captain mark kelly, nbc space and aviation analyst as well as a nasa astronaut. mark, great seeing you. >> great to be here. thanks, jose. >> pretty huge accomplishment, todays record. have you talked to your brother recently? >> i talked to him yesterday. we didnt talk about this record, but it is a big accom...

Getting a look at these shots. they joined the astronauts already on board. nay will be studying the effect of micro gravity on headaches. a fast-moving wildfire is tearing through glacier national park in the u.s. state of montana. but one vacationing family in the area got far too close to the flames. take a look. >> oh, my gosh, go. >> larry, we need to go. >> go, go now. >> im going. >> fast dad, go! holy crap dad, go. >> larry is like you want me to speed up? this fire began on the east s...

How well you rest. nasa, whatever that is, is looking for people to lie in a bed for 70 days in order to study the human bodys response to microgravity which is like gravity, but micro. they will be paid $5,000 a month and tilted in a bed with their feet raised above their head 24 hours a day and 16 hours in light and 8 in darkness. tv, video games, books and internet are permitted and they are able of all things to shower in bed. this sounds like heaven to me, sherrod. >> i have a cousin doing ...

Disappointment that years ago, ten or 15 years ago when it became fairly obvious the shuttle program was going to have to wind down that so much of the financial expenditure went towards the maintenance and creation of the international space station. he felt it should have been divided up between that and a new generation of space shuttles. he said that he had senator john glenn at his office a little while ago, he told me this. and he says that senator glenn is not a happy camper about the dir...

little bit. and im going to hit on something a little bit touchy in our world. remember when chef paula deen announced she had diabetes. a lot of people voicing their opinion, i told you so. thats what you get for cooking such incredibly rich food. we wish paula deen the best. we love her. i want to take another approach. sam talbot, a finalist on the show "top chef," has had diabetes for most of his life. its taught him important lessons about eating healthy. were going to try to shar...