and for centuries have bore his image. martha teichner will report our sunday morning cover story. reporter: the face of jesus on the blood-stained cloth he was buried in or a medieval fake. the shroud of turin is nothing if not controversial. why do you think people are so fascinated by the shroud? i think mainly because its image has not been explained yet. so it s a tremendous, tremendous mystery. reporter: later this sunday morning, a startling new take on this mysterious man of the cloth. osgood: faith and family are central to the life of one prominent evangelist. but by his own admission it wasn t always easy to reconcile the two. jesus christ has an answer to every problem that you face. reporter: his father was the most famous evangelist of his time. and christ will come into your heart and he ll make you a new person. reporter: but for franklin graham the past was a rocky one. i wanted to be a hell raiser, live my own life. if it made people mad, t
we have to find an economic model that allows us to do it that s more than just a jobs program. that s the way nasa has been run to its detriment for the last 30 years. it really should be a technology stimulus program. yes, we should go to mars, but that should be for breakthrough technologies. go back to the moon. as resides, fascinating places. not only are they coming to kill is, but they re also resource. also deeper plays in the solar system. europa, fascinating place. we can get there if we build a space infrastructure that s based on smart technologies, instead of running essentially a welfare program here on earth. okay. well, dave brodie, space.com, thanks for weighing in. my pleasure. theme park investigation. a man falls often a roller coaster and dies. what went wrong? plus, casey anthony refuses a jailhouse visit from her mom, cindy, as she awaits her release from jail. that s all next on msnbc saturday. [ male announcer ] this.is the network a network of possib
to the royals arrival there in los angeles. how much american fanfare do you think this visit has produced? well, you know, i mean, really the successive calendar has been phenomenal for them. i do know from very good sources that kate is particularly concerned about how she s going to be perceived by the american public and her american fans. you know, she is following what could possibly be the greatest living woman we have known, princess diana. it s a tough call to do. so far she hasn t put a foot wrong. have i to laugh about the clothes that she s wearing because she s designer the not designer clothes are all accessible. every sort of outfit is over 1 thoughts pounds, so about $2,000. i don t know what girls have that spare cash knocking around. it s still quite hefty. i think we re going to be looking for those royal knockoffs. let s talk about where they re staying in los angeles accident because they have good friends. you have elton john and dave and victoria beckham. t
kennedy space center. joining me to talk about all things atlantis, good morning to you, dave brodie. i m glad to see you. i guess i wanted to figure out why this is ending. the shuttle program has run its course? has it become too expensive? both? exactly. both are true. the shuttle program did everything that it came to do, and magnificently, i will say. yeah. this thing cost a lot of money. yesterday s launch, $1,500,000,00. we were promised a vehicle that was going to launch 50 times a year for under $10 million a launch. the mission managers knew they were never going to get those kind of efficiencies out of the vehicles. they kept quiet about it, being good company guys and we the people never asked. shame on all of us. interesting. you talk about the expense. i know so many jobs were lost or will be lost officially very, very soon as they retire the program. i hope that some of those jobs will immediately transfer
recovery. good morning. i m alex witt. welcome to msnbc saturday. first we go to the legacy of betty ford. the former first lady completely changed the way americans talk about addiction, breast cancer, and other tough issues that people used to deal with in silence. mrs. ford died last night at the age of 93, and she said she was an ordinary woman called on stage at an extraordinary time. nbc s brian williams has more. reporter: we got to know her all over again during the week of mourning for president gerald ford, her strength and dignity still intact 30 years after leaving the white house. i was an ordinary woman called on stage at an extraordinary time. the president s first and our first lady, betty ford. reporter: elizabeth bloomer ford, never expected to be anything other than a congressman s wife. his wife, betty ford. reporter: but she became first lady the day richard nixon resigned. it was, she later said, the saddest day of her life. i m indebte