harris: jimmy carter has passed a major milestone. he has now lived longer than any other former president. it s not a birthday, it s a notable milestone. today he is 94 years old and 172 days. the previous record holder was the late president george hwb, who lived one day younger than carter. carter was the first american president to be born in the hospital. astronauts going outside the space station for first space bar, exposing, expecting it to they are replacing batteries on a solar panel. phil keating s life in miami. not for atomic space, but close. phil? not too far! a, harris. ness is just about finished wrapping up this first of three spacewalks to be conducted over the next 70 days. for two rookie spacewalkers
they have put the rest of us basically on notice that they are catching up rapidly. nasa administrator tweeted this. congratulations to china s team for what appears to be a successful landing on the far side of the moon. this is a first for humanity and an impressive accomplishment. what else is china planning for its space program? china has already launched crews into space. in 2003, china became only the third nation able to launch astronauts into space. since then, they have shown a steady increase in capability doing evas or space walks, having two small space labs. and starting in another couple of years they ll begin construction on their own space station, and they intend to have international partners cooperating in scientific research and also in flying other astronauts from europe, from russia, japan, all other nations that want to cooperate with them.
throughout this. i have no idea if they were democrats or republicans at all. one of the people who left the greatest impressions on me was pierce sellers, he was an astronaut, he did space walks, amazing guy. soon before i met him, he was diagnosed with pan kree creatic cancer. he was given a year to live. he had to face what am i going to do with the next year of my life? he decided i m going to go back to nasa tomorrow and look at every single day at the science and we are on a train wreck. the planet will probably be just fine but the humans who occupy the planet, we re on a train wreck and i m going to work every day the rest of my life to try and tell people we are on a train wreck and we have to change the course of human history and we need to do it
complicated issue. i personally want to thank you both for making your self available on a holiday. it s a very busy news day. thank you. special council s robert mueller s russia investigation heats up, a top democrat slams the president over being dishonest about his business ties. up next everything you need to know about the russia investigation as congress returns from recess. in light of the fight against confederate monuments, we want to introduce you to monumental americans that may deserve a statue. peggy whitson returned from a record breaking mission. she logged a total of 665 days in space. that is more than any other american and any other woman in the world. she also set the record for being the oldest space woman at the age of 57 and the most experienced female spacewalker with 10 space walks. how about a monument to her. you re watching msnbc. we ll be right back. how do you chase what you love with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis?
on the east coast of the u.s., as a major thoroughfare for the united states it is extremely wet, will continue to be so. potential for two to four inches of rain along the new england coastline. that s going to impact travel plans as the storm system continues to push eastward across the region. here s the rainfal continuing to impact the area. talk about all kinds of things at cnn weather. we have you covered. take you to outer space, the 200th manned spacewalk occurred just yesterday in coordination and support of the international space station. there it is there. 400 kilometers, 250 miles above earth. the spacewalk cut short because a cable supplying power, oxygen, cooling water to astronauts was leaking. went from six and a half hours to four hours. safe and sound. quite a milestone, 200 space