Destination mission to the moon. And for the channel and Discovery Communications and including the widely praised modern marvels. An assistant professor and a lecturer with Johnson Space center. And tonights stories of the space age which features 20 of his favorites from the golden age of Space Exploration. Join me in welcoming him. [applause] thank you very much, normally i kind of dance around a little bit while i perform these things. Because theyre taping tonight, and we have a weird microphone ill stay with the podium and go back to my professoring days at the university of laverne. Thank you for coming here, i know its rough getting here and i use today drive to ucla when i was 18 years old and 30 minutes and it was irritating and i knew that it was two and a half hours. I appreciate you going back to what you went through. The space age has a long story behind it and i wont bore you with the whole thing, but ive been writing about different parts of the space age and Space Sci
Hundreds of people are still missing after the south korean disaster. The families that are missing, they dont know if their loved ones are alive. And so far rescue crews have not been able to reach them, 25 people now are confirmed dead after the ferry capsized two days ago. What caused the ferry to sink is not known. But the more pressure is getting to the 276 people believed to be trapped in the ship, many of them High School Students from seoul. Rescue crews hope that the pockets inside the ferry could be keeping the people alive. But so far 500 divers working 12hour ships have not been able to get into the ship to pump in more air. The weather is bad, the water is cold. The situation simply heartbreaking. At the white house today, president obama expressed condolences to the family and also said this. Obviously, information is still coming in. We know that many of the victims of this terrible tragedy were students. And American Navy personnel and marines have already been on the s
Particularly friendly to us is a good thing. Again, it comes back to whatever the communication is comes back into the government and shared caa cross the government so its its not a bad thing to have multiple communication lines to any government. Meantime thats not what James Clapper the form of director of National Intelligence had to say. Listen. Its certainly arouses your concern about whats going on given, you know, russia at least for my money is our primary adversary. They are not our friends. They are in to to do us in. I want to turn to cnns rhine know vales. Sunday is a workday at the white house. What activity have you been seeing there . From what we noel the president has been in the white house today. A focused on his agenda moving forward and that means huddling with some advisors to not only talk about what he plans to do on the domestic front but also how they plan to defend the president against these attacks that are coming this way in the light of these investigati
unmanned ones for really great depths? we have about a half dozen manned submersibles that have go very deep, how deep can they go? some are very deep, for instance, jim camerons can go full depth. 35,000 feet. there are a number of subs that can go 25,000 feet. probably a handful. and depending on where the wreck is located. and they have similar conditions, anderson, to like what we have in here right now. the water is about 42 degrees. it would be about the same at the bottom of the indian ocean. it wouldn t be much colder. and we have four men inside a submarine that is made for actually three people. and just the normal respiration, everything is very wet here with all the condensation. it is almost like it is raining here, that is just some of the conditions they would have down