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Celeste now known as jasmine. Grant lodes water of the massive sinkhole in that area to people fell into the ground as part of the roadway gave way some say this is not the first time that the water pipe has broken and that one is a much to really fix the line this time the water is from a 16 in. Pipe that ruptured around in the morning just off of macarthur and the detective video set not only was it scary to look at this he and his partner when out to go talk to firefighters the pavement gave way. Terisa estacio down the street up more problems look at the water in this basement she said it ...

Cspan in the house. [laughter] [applause] tonights book is call welcome to the universe and i love saying that. Welcome to the universe. They tee that too. Let me immediately introduce my coauthors, first Michael Strauss. [applause] these are my two coauthors. [applause] so have a seat. So just a bit of introduction. I taught for ten years at Princeton University from 1994 to 2003 and before i transferred all of my activities here to this museum but over that time i taught a course on instructory astro physics. We realized we could charge, we could energize the course even more by adding other...

L. A. Times festival of books on everything connects the Building Blocks of daily life. Im john wiener, i write for the nation magazine, and i also host the weekly podcast called start making sense. You guys have been here before, you know the rules; silence cell phones, no personal recordings. You can watch us on cspan when this is over if you want to relive those unforgettable moments. [laughter] we will have time for questions at the end. We will have a book signing afterwards. The signing area for this session is signing area one. Two of our authors appearing today are are prolific, old pr...

Like this one. Thats correct. We have a certain percentage here on the National Mall and at the center but quite a few of artifacts are in storage. Jeremy kinney, thanks very much for your time. Happy 40th birthday. Thank you very much. Its more than aviation and space exploration, from moon to mars as we continue our tour inside this museum. Well start our tour right here with the lunar module, the icon for the landing on the moon in july 1969. It has a companion space craft, the apollo command module. And the command module, its Service Module and lunar module together carried three astronau...

This morning i got a call from a reporter who wanted to know, why would the museum at a time when it was focused on opening the building, why would they even helped organize such a conference . The simple answer is that we are crazy, but at the smithsonian and at this busy him, scholarship is the engine and research is the lifeblood of the institution. Without the decades of research and academic scholarship, there would be no museum of African American history and culture. We know that we are tied to so much of the work that many of you do. So much of the work of the museum has been shaped by...