The University Rover Challenge challenges teams to design and build the next generation of Mars rovers that may one day work alongside astronauts exploring the Red Planet.
rick, thank you. jon: red bull gives you wings, but will they give you a parachute? a privately-owned spacecraft lost one of its nine engines shortly after lifting off sunday night. nasa says the rocket still was able to make it into space, though it is unclear what caused that engine to fail in the first place. let s talk about it with tom jones, a former nasa astronaut and the author of planetology. e guess this thing has nine engines, one failed pretty spectacularly. do we know what it was? hi, jon. i think no one really knows the cause yet, but they got good data down from the engines. one of the nine had a pressure loss is what spacex is saying, and apparently it blew debris off the side of the product.
have the skills and rockets needed to explore space. it is a matter how many resources we devote to it. there is hope we can use the skills on both the military and the nasa side of the house to reconstruct our space program, if we give it the proper priority. that is my argument. we should be boosting the nasa budget. rick: the book is called planetology. a former nasa astronaut. tom jones, thank you for your time. thanks, rick. jenna: road rage caught on tape by another driver. now there is a development in this case. we re bringing up to date on that. we re awaiting a daily briefing at the white house. you can be sure there will be plenty of questions on the president s assertion of executive privilege in the fast and furious case. we ll bring you that live. plus why one top democrat is now saying this is part of a nationwide scheme by republicans, this fast and furious investigation. we ll have all that for you at the top of the hour.