know, just keep doing my thing. scheffler s finish will give at least some hope to those closest to him on the leaderboard, especially the young australian player cam smith, who won the players championship in florida recently. he s at 6 under par right now and just three shots back. patrick snell, cnn, augusta, georgia. exciting day of golf to come there in just a few hours. now the first fully private mission to the international space station arrived at its destination saturday. it s the inaugural mission of a startup called axiom space. the company launched its crew on friday on a spacex rocket. a former nasa astronaut leads the axiom mission, joined by three private citizens who paid, wait for it, $55 million each for this ride. better be a good one. nasa s head of human space flight program sees the collaboration as a key step in commercializing space travel. this is our first step. we re working with a commercial
that fog they were actually fishing boats off the coast of south america lined up using very bright lights to attract squid and the rotation of our over the made it look like they were flying by. wow. but at least you got an explanation. leroy, i want to ask you something as we talk about apollo 11 which kree meres on cnn. 50 years next month since that mission. how did that open up the path for what s going to be paved today and what is your hope for future moon walks? i mean, it s just amazing to think about the fact that apollo 11 was almost 50 years ago. in just a few weeks we ll have that anniversary. it certainly inspired me as an 8-year-old kid to want to be an astronaut myself. that s where the dream started for me. to me, that s one of the most important thing if not the most important thing that comes out of a human space flight program and that s inspiring the next generation, the inspiration that
became a test pilot. in 1962, he was chosen as part of the first group of astronauts selected after the mercury 7. his name may not be a household one. but many inside the space program believe his accomplishments rival those of shepard, glen and armstrong. his legacy in american space history really is in some ways more significant than armstrong s. john s career, with nasa, is over 40 years long. and he was he was so important to the entire human space flight program. reporter: during that time, about the only thing john young didn t fly was in a mercury capsule. in 1965, he and gus grissom flew the first two-man flight on board gemini 3. he flew again on gemini 10 and apollo 10 and walked on the moon with apollo 16 in 1972.
pilot. in 1962, he was chosen as part of the first group of astronauts selected after the mercury 7. his name may not be a household one, but many inside the space program believe his accomplishments rival those of shepard, glen and armstrong. his legacy in american space history really is in some ways more significant than armstrong s. john s career, with nasa, is over 40 years long. and he was he was so important to the entire human space flight program. reporter: during that time, about the only thing john young didn t fly was in a mercury capsule. in 1965, he and gus grissom flew the first two-man flight on board gemini 3. he flew again on gemini 10 and apollo 10 and walked on the moon with charlie duke on apollo 16 in 1972. a signature moment, duke snapped
movie called hidden figures. we have the women that changed the course of the history of the nation, and we don t know about them. she plays one of the black women at nasa who did the math that put men in space, and growing up in west virginia, numbers were always on johnson s mind. i counted everything. i am counting plates when i washed dishes. she graduated college at 18, and then on to nasa, becoming an unsung hero behind historic missions, by allen shepherd and john glenn, who insisted she verify the computer s calculations before his first orbit around the earth. he knew if i had done it it was right. charles bolden is the head of nasa. we would not have had a human space flight program had it not been for katherine johnson. how surprised do you think people were that it was a black