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Optimism is kind of a hallmark of justice ginsburg's life. she'll take everything optimistically. and it's served her well. >> this is not something she knew but coming for a long while. but the fall in which she broke her ribs was in early november. >> that's right. >> and it seems like, correct me if the timing is wrong, but it seems like in assessing her after that injury, that's when they checked the nodules. she went through these few weeks, but now -- i have a colleague who was on the shuttle flight with her from d.c. to new york yesterday and said she was fine, working the whole time. f...

The surgery and the doctors told her afterward that they have every reason to be optimistic. optimism is kind of a hallmark of justice ginsburg's life. she'll take everything optimistically. and it's served her well. >> this is not something she knew but coming for a long while. but the fall in which she broke her ribs was in early november. >> that's right. >> and it seems like, correct me if the timing is wrong, but it seems like in assessing her after that injury, that's when they checked the nodules. so they didn't put her in for surgery immediately. she went through these few weeks, but n...

Checked. she didn't go through surgery immediately. she went through three weeks. i have a colleague who was on the shuttle flight with her from dc to new york yesterday said she was >> presumably with the thought that we should get this medical stuff out of the way over christmas-new years so that i can be back on the bench on january 7th. that's standard for her through her previous bouts with cancer. she had a pattern, something that she actually, a lesson she took from justice o'connor that can done the same thing with her breast cancer and chemo. get chemo on friday so you got the weekend...

Sad. do you know it was captured on video and they made my mother identify me? they called my father and said we need to suspend him from school because he has exposed himself? my dad thought i came out of the men's room wearing like a london fog trench coat with nothing underneath t by the way, i tell the whole story in my book which came out last week. clowns to the left of me jokers to the right. i cannot believe that prediction. holy smokes! good friend of mine taped a playboy centerfold to the roll-down periodic table in chem class. come on. that's an old one. it worked. smart guy. he bec...

And he spent 835 hours in his remarkable life in space. martin savidge has the details. >> reporter: when it came to space life, if anything were it, john young, you never have known. >> your heart rate hardly went up at all. bob's went up to 130. >> i was excited. the -- >> i was -- >> this was one of john's last interviews. he talked about flying with griffin on the first shuttle flight, "columbia," 1981, 30 years earlier. was he worried about something that never flew before? >> we had ejection seats, you know. things went south, we could jump out. >> reporter: young was born in california,...