it s a big, heavy trash truck that hit the train. turned the trash truck upside-down. shepard: your wife, again, a nurse, i was helping. anything serious or severe on the train itself? no, i don t think so. you know, i didn t get to talk to jason. i understood he was taken to the hospital. i don t think so. nobody in our car everybody was looking at each other and okay, you knew we hit something. shepard: congressman knight, so glad year well as you are and we appreciate you being here. good luck the rest of the week. thank you. shepard: we ll be right back with a look at some of the biggest moments for the u.s. space program as nasa celebrates a major milestone that happened on this day in history.
program has given us an enormous understanding of our universe. in 1977, a pair of voyager space craft set off to explore jupiter and saturn. they have traveled further than any manmade object ever. in 1990, the u.s. launched the hubble telescope. space also brought together cold war enemies. in the year 2000, russia and american astronauts moved into the international space station cooperating for a cause to benefit mankind. in 2012, nasa s enthusiasm was contagious when a risky move to lower rover to mars worked. touchdown confirmed. we re safe on mars. all of these developments helped pave the way for private space companies like virgin galactic and space x and it all started when america looked to the stars
shepard: on this day in 1958, america went to space for the first time with the launch of the explorer one satellite. that launch two months after russia beat america to space with its sputnik satellite. later that year, president eisenhower created nasa and the space race was in full swing. alan sheppard was the first american to space with a 15-minute flight. months later, president kennedy made a bold promise. we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy but because they re hard. shepard: first nasa set its sights lower. in 1962, john glenn became the first american in orbit. just seven years later in 1969,