started flying and on camera for all our eyes to see. the judge, they will face a judge today. little league recommends both men be barred from games for good. i have to agree with the league on that one. jenna: maybe there is a lesson somewhere. maybe. we ll see . reporter: take prozac before little league games? i m not sure. jenna: julie, thank you. jon: some new pictures for you truly out of this world as nasa releases new images from the mars rover opportunity. it shows an incredible pan ramic detail of the red planet, things we ve never seen before. joining us, tom jones, former nasa shuttle astronaut and fox news contributor, scott horowitz, former nasa astronaut and walter cunningham, a former apollo vii astronaut. what a great panel. great to have you here. we have this thing running around on mars right now. you can even see the tire tracks in the panoramic photo.
that is for you. jon: nice. jenna: that is coming up next hour. jon: a nonprofit organization just announced plans to save the earth from asteroids. the b-612 foundation wants to map every asteroid that potentially could hit our planet. it has happened before, as recently as well, 1911 or so. an asteroid hit siberia. the impact, 1,000 times the force of the a bomb dropped on hiroshima. here is pictures of some of the trees flattened as a result of that asteroid impact. the group says a larger asteroid could have devastating effects. the sentinel will be a 1 1/2 ton, 25-foot tall infrared telescope launched into space. it would orbit our solar system to map potentially dangerous asteroids that could impact the earth. let s talk about it with tom jones a former nasa shuttle astronaut, a fox news
if it was few hours late it might have hit london, or washington, d.c.. jon: a private foundation, not nasa doing this work. that is interesting. they will raise the funds privately, philanthropicly to buy us all asteroid insurance policy and donate the results to nasa and other space agencies. jon: interesting. tom jones, thanks. you re welcome. jenna: certainly is a big election year. already a big election year for mexico. mexico elected a brand new president. the winner, part of the country s former ruling party. very interesting dynamic. we ll tell you about him and what it may mean for the growing drug violence south of the border of course so close to our home. iran making new threats against israel. new missile tests and new war games. this as an oil embargo kicks in within the last 24 hours. we have more on all of this coming up next. [ male announcer ] let s say you need to take care of legal matters.
enterprise was built ruggedly with construction because they didn t understand the loads going to and from space yet. after challenger was lost nasa considered upgrading it to space capability but they felt a lighter, newer shuttle, turned out to be endeavour would be a better bet for them. jenna: tom, we last week were talking about spacex, the new private venture to get, a rocket into space. i was going to use the term shuttle but really more of a rocket to the international space station up there. as you see kind of the space program evolve and think about what s ahead as well i m just curious how you see these two news items together? well it is good news that last week spacex and its dragon capsule were successful in their run to the station as these shuttles go to museums. we can see perhaps a glimmer how nasa can reopen the supply line to the space station and eventually in five years fly astronauts. i would sure like to see that process accelerated and have these commercial s
appears to be mission accomplished for the spacex dragon capsule. look at this brand new video of the capsule. this is infra road video shot from a navy p-3 orion surveillance plan. you see the canopies and underneath the capsule as it heads for splashdown in the pacific hundreds of miles off los angeles. this is major accomplishment. this is the first time a private company has been able to launch a spacecraft. get it to the international space station. it docked there. dropped off 1500 pounds of supplies and coming home with another 1100 pounds of or so of trash basically on board. it has successfully splashed down into the pacific ocean. if all goes well they will be retrieving that spacex capsule, putting it on a barge and bringing it back for reuse. talk about it all with tom jones, a former nasa shuttle