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And he has spent 835 hours of his remarkable life in space. martin savidge has the details. >> reporter: when it came to space life, if anything, without john young you wouldn't have known. >> i was excited. >> i was bored to tears. >> reporter: this was one of young's last interviews, he and fellow astronaut bob griffin sat down with cnn, shortly before the space shuttle program ended. he talked about flying with griffin on that first shuttle flight, "columbia," 30 years earlier. was he worried about flying something that never flew before? >> we had ejection seats. things went really south, ...

We call the space coast, jutting out into the atlantic, and probably feeling very exposed right now. >> caller: well, they have it pretty well secured, brian, as you know, where you and i covered john glen's return mission on the shuttle flight, that building is the largest building east of the mississippi. in fact, i think there's one in the whole country larger. it's even larger than the pentagon. but anyway, it will withstand these winds without any problem. they've got everything secured. all the rockets and all are back into holding buildings where they're secured. so they don't, they don...

>> 22. >> in the summertime thunder and lightning, i was 19 in the summertime. summer and lightning. >> 26 27 ahead of me. that's the problem. you get the smaller commuter jets going on. >> shuttle flight. >> give them a bus. >> sneaky good move. new york move, you can get out of new york on a good day in 30 minutes. let's go to the "washington times," george w. bush is opening up about what he liked the most. bush was addressing a crowd on a summit at a veteran cass irwhen he took a walk down memory lane. he cracked a couple of joke and then he got serious. >> people said do you miss much? ...

Maternity clothes to this coat by goat. yes, there is a british fashion label called goat that kate wore to visit a child development center. >> get out of the way! >> reporter: kate proved to be adept at wrapping gifts for the kids. meanwhile, prince william was wrapping things up with president obama. you try making small talk as a herd of photographers descends upon the oval office. the royals, they're just like us. when prince william flew between new york and washington, he took the us airways shuttle first class. one passenger tweeted a photo of the prince looking as if he were searching...

An unexpected passenger was on my flight from washington to new york this afternoon. prince william. he had a special meet and greet today in the nation's capital. william and his wife, catherine, the duchess of cambridge, arrived in the u.s. on sunday. they're here for three days spending most of their time in new york. as we mentioned earlier, right now the royal couple is attending their first nba game. they're watching king james or lebron james and the cleveland cavaliers take on the brooklyn nets. cnn's max foster joins me now with more on the royal visit. i've got to say i was -- everyb...