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They were married for 73 years. glenn was the last survivor of original mercury 7. they're all gone now. nbc's own jay barbury covered them all. he, too, came to know john glenn. >> john always felt like he was sort of shorted out of going to the moon. he wanted to go to the moon badly. i just would like to set here and think tonight knowing john as i did, he's on the moon tonight. and if we'll look up there, it's in the western sky, brian, we probably could wave at him. he finally got to the moon. >> hear hear, jay barbury in john glenn was a lovely man. for as the late scott carpenter was th...

Nbc's own jay barbury covered them all. he, too, came to know john glenn. >> john always felt like he was sort of shorted out of going to the moon. he wanted to go to the moon badly. i just would like to set here and think tonight knowing john as i did, he's on the moon tonight. and if we'll look up there, it's in the western sky, brian, we probably could wave at him. he finally got to the moon. >> hear hear, jay barbury in john glenn was a lovely man. for as the late scott carpenter was the first to say, "god speed, john glenn." thank you for being here with us. "hardball with chris matthews"...

44 after, about ten minutes from now, but jay has an update. what happened? >> jose they will not be trying again today. they'll attempt to go again tomorrow morning. they'll start this all over again. it's been one thing or another all morning long. but they just couldn't get the job done today. >> jay, what happened? >> well the last thing here they had trouble with the valves. when they shut them down they did not work properly. the fuel systems, liquid hydrogen, liquid nitrogen. what they do is they shut everything off when they launch.

Saying the first brick on the road to mars. well, it is. because the spacecraft since the apollo spacecraft that astronauts will be able to go beyond low earth orbit to go to the moon. on the other side of the moon. eventually to mars. and the 2030s. anyway, they're hoping to get it off at the start of a new era. >> jay, we'll all be watching. thank you. we'll keep a very close eye to see how that goes on this delay that could, as jay says, could still take off today. but year just getting started on this thursday edition of "the rundown." up next, the republican pushback against obama's immig...

Gene cernen commanded that mission. he was the last astronaut on the moon. so everybody thought, well we'll be back going into deep space before that. but it's been four decades. they're trying to get back in. they got the approval of the program. they're building a huge issue rocket that will be ready to go in 2013. eventually the largest rocket they ever built. even bigger than the saturn 5 that went to the moon. but they need this to go in increments to deep space. to go back to the moon beyond the moon, to investigate asteroids, jose and eventually they can go to other places within the so...