And that is astronaut Leland Melvin. And, mr. Melvin, you write that your book is called chasing space, and you write that it had all begun with a dropped pass. Guest exactly. A dropped pass. So i was a wide receiver on a running team, and that means that i block a lot versus catching passes. We were at a homecoming game, i was running down the sideline, the ball was perfectly thrown io my hand, and i drop a touchdown pass in my hands. And the thing is, a scout wasro there from the university of richmond looking to see if i could play football for the team. He walked out of the stadium. My coach, jimmy green, believed in me. Get back out there, run the same play. That one catch resulted in a 180,000 scholarship to the university of richmond becauseep the coach said he didnt give up, he kept going. So that was the grit and the perseverance and the second chance. Host how did you get from playing for the university of retch monday spiders to richmond spiders to two Space Shuttle missions
And materials all of these programs are available to watch online. Were pleased to be joined by one of 362 americans who is actually been in space and that is astronaut Leyland Melvin and mr. Melvin you write that your, your book is called chases space and you write it had all begun with a dropped past. Exactly. A drop past so i was a wide receiver this in a running team, and that means that i block a lot versus catching passes. We were at a home coming game and i was running down the sideline ball perfectly thrown in my hand and i drop the downtown pass in my hands. And the thing is a scout was from university of richmond looking to play baseball for the team and he walked out of the stadium, my coach jimmy greene said run the same play this time i caught the ball and one catch resultedded in 180,000 dollar scoip to university of rimp monday because the coach said he didnt give up but he kept going. That was the grit and perseverance, and the Second Chance how did you get from playing
But president made no mention of that last month when he met with the qatari emir, instead, offering to sell him weapons. Lots of beautiful military equipment. Reporter during that trip, the president vowed to unify the muslim world against terrorism and iran. But tensions spiked in the past 24 hours, with countries in the region closing their air space to qatari planes, blocking trade, and cutting diplomatic ties, sparking qataris to stockpile food. The u. S. Launches air strikes against isis and syria in iraq from a base in qatar. The tiny gulf emirate hosts around 10,000 u. S. Troops. Thats one reason secretary of state Rex Tillerson has tried to deescalate the crisis. We certainly would encourage the parties to sit down together and address these differences. Reporter and yesterday, u. S. Ambassador dana smith praised qatars Great Partnership in countering terrorist financing. Smith has broken with the president before, lamenting last month on twitter that it is increasingly diffic
Senator glenn died december 8 2016 at the age of 95. Up next on American History tv. National air and space museum remembers the life of john glenn on his 96 birthday in a discussion with david pryor and catherine sullivan, veteran of three Space Shuttle missions and the first woman to walk in space. This is about one hour. Great to see this crowd. This is a john glenn event. Good evening. I am jack daly. Of the smithsonian air and space museum, it is my pleasure to welcome you to a very special john glenn lecture in space history. We established this lecture series in 2004 to spotlight legendary figures in aviation. And over the last 13 years, we have welcomed extraordinary individuals. But none of them has loomed larger in the history books then our programs namesake, john glenn. For many years, john glenn hosted these events. The last few years when they were unable to come in person, they were with us in spirit. Senator glenn passed away in december after a lifetime of service to h
She has the most accurate neighborhood forecast. Nice to be bearer of good news. No rain, no snow. Were talking temperatures that crank up as we head into your afternoon. If you have plans to be outside or kind of wanting to get outside this is the weekend to do it. Its a cold start this morning. If youre trying to get an Early Morning run good to do a midday run. 30 is your temperature right now in philadelphia. 27 over pennsylvania suburbs. 28 in new jersey. 25 in Lehigh Valley. Delaware youre checking in at 29 trees. Notice winds they are calm currently. Were going to see quite a few changes with the warm up and winds picking up as we get into this afternoon. Look at these forecast highs. 65 in. 61 in the suburbs. 63 in new jersey. Upper 50s to around 60 in the Lehigh Valley. And 65 for parts of delaware. Youll little warmer in southern delaware, a little cooler in northern delaware. Mostly sunny across the board and we just get a little breezy as we get later into the day. As for y