A final assault on the city of mackay. Like to green forces refused to step aside. And china launches an unmanned spacecraft to the moon with ambitions to eventually set foot on the u. S. President dont. Trump has accepted a full transition can begin for joe biden to take office the head of the General Services administration. Told by biden the process can begin. Now, trump said in a tweet, hes directing his team to cooperate. But hes promising to keep up the fight. Bidens transition same as welcome the move. It frees up millions of dollars for the president elects new administration. And bidens team can now work with federal officials on the pandemic response. National security joins us live from washington. D. C. Now passes good news in a sense for the president elect, but theres no can spare concession speech from president donald trump. In fact, hes vowing to fight on what really can he do now at this late stage. What really can he do . Well, he can continue to tweet, but really th
Were in the boeing milestones of flight hall at the center of the museum. And this is the hall where we display the pioneering aircraft and spacecraft that transform the modern world. When this Museum Opened in july of 1976, almost every space artifact on display had recently been in the news. This was very much a museum of contemporary space flight. And it was for most people their first chance to see what had been lauded in the 1960s and early 1970s during this heroic age of Space Exploration when humans first ventured off the planet into space and all the way to the moon, when the United States and the soviet union began sending craft out to explore the nearby planets. All of this was exciting, thrilling, and people just flocked in to the museum to see it. In the 40 years since this building opened, we have continued to acquire treasures of space history. We have now about 17,000 artifacts related to space history. We have just over a thousand of them on display in our two locations
The Smithsonian National air and space museum shows us artifacts that tell the story of Space Exploration from the moon to mar mars. Each week american artifacts takes viewers into archives, museums and Historic Sites around the country. Up next we visit the Smithsonian National air and space museum located on the National Mall in washington, d. C. Our tour guide is valerie neal, head of the Space History Department at the museum who shows us artifacts that tell the story of Space Exploration from the moon to mars. Im valerie neal. Were in the boeing milestones of flight hall at the center of the museum and this is the hall where we display the pioneering aircraft and spacecraft that transform the modern world. When this Museum Opened in july of 1976 almost every space artifact on display had recently been in the news. This was very much a museum of contemporary spaceflight and it was for most people their first chance to see what had been lauded in the 1960s and early 1970s during thi
Money, your money, your life, your future. Now becky quick. We begin with space travel. The weekendmarks 50 years sinc man walked on the moon now half a century later theres a push to explore the final prfrontier there is a lot of private enterprise working on the race to space. 50 years ago the eagle has landed. The first humans stepped foot on the moon the apollo 11 mission, cinched americas dominance in Space Companies like spacex using rockets to go into orbit now has come the time for us to make the next giant leap and return american astronauts to the moon. Nasas new program is artemis. It would send americans back in five years, a fete that can only be achieved with the private sector were in an entrepreneurial space race. Weve gone to 476 companies today, theyve raised 22 billion of equity capital. One startup, astro bottic. Its a railroad to the moon. It builds robotic landers, it has almost 100 million in contracts, including nasa. We offer nasa an opportunity to fly payloads
Hot, hot saturday morning, temperatures only going up from here. That is why were in weather lert mode this morning. Another dangerously hot day is on tap. He foratest well check in with Lauryn Ricketts. Its like ablanket. Its that heat blanket covering you out there right now. Even as we headed into the early torning hours you can s haze out there. Sun coming up, just about two minutes ago. See if we canet that sun for you. But again it is a hazy day out there already. Of course you see ouranners are red for weather alert. Take a look, these are the temperatures right now at 6 00 a. M. On your saturdaymorning. In the 70s right now in d. C. , coming in at 81 degrees. But lets go ahead and factor in that humidity. It feels like 86 out there. And last hour it felt like 88. Its come down a little bit, improvement, improvement, people. Temperatures right now, again, are on the warm side. And so it feels pretty hot wen you head out there. Thats why we have that excessive heat warning and it