Yesterday. He landed his small plane on an interstate, 10 near jackson, mississippi after the cessnas engine failed. He was cleared for an Emergency Landing at a nearby airport, but then he realized he needed to land much sooner. I take off. I dont think im going to make it. Im going to put this down on the road. They go, are you declaring an emergency. Thats when i said affirmative. I am declaring an emergency. So mcknight signaled drivers that he was going to land on the highway by moving the wings and the motorists made room for him. Whats amazing is what was written on his shirt right there. It says keep calm and land on the center line. I think he was close to it. Hes got the right motto there. And coming up, the incredible journey on other side of the world. Why three Wounded Warriors braved Mother Nature to climb five and a half miles to the top of the world. What they say was actually the hardest part of their amazing trek. Later in the skinny, a villain finally emerges on bach
Youre looking at a timelapse video recorded by the library of congress showing the process of constructing the exhibition jacob riis revealing how the other half lives. Next on American History tvs american artifacts, we visit the exhibit in the librarys Thomas Jefferson building to learn about the life of the danishborn journalist, social reformer, and photographer. This program is just under an hour. Im cheryl regan, exhibit director in the interpretive office at the library after congress. Im barbara baier, curator, al this exhibit and historian in the Manuscript Division of the library of congress. This exhibition, jacob riis revealing how the other half lives, is a copresentation with the museum of the city of new york. It is the first time that the collections of the library of congress, the jacob riis papers, have been married with the photographs that are stellar collection at the museum of the city of new york. And we pick the word copresentation very carefully because the exh
And i look forward to it because this is such a great story. It is super exciting. Tell me about rosetta and what was it about. What did we learn from it. , incredibly exciting. People know they are these large balls of ice and rock, that he how people dont know incredible they are. They are actually time capsules. When our solar system was forming, there were these little bits left over that became, its omets or asteroids. We have a chance to understand where we all came from. The interesting thing to me about rosetta, there was the beauty of the images that returned, but we had the chance to learn that the water in our bodies was more like asteroids and comets. Charlie am i right in that this was a 12 year flight . That is right. In 2004. Was iaunch was the rosetta actually had two different touchdowns. 2014. Uched down in and today, the entire spacecraft came down onto the comet. Now, there are two different little spacecrafts part of the human race that are out there in till the en
Humans to mars by 2030 and is currently mapping the planet using a robotic rover on mars named curiosity. This is an hour and 25 minutes. [applause] thank you all for coming. We got the email about 10 30 this morning that said that Charlie Bolden wasnt coming, and that was the bad news. Because we didnt have a replacement then. But when i found out who was coming, i was actually kind of delighted because Charlie Bolden is a great guy, i like talking to him, but hes an administrator, and administrators are, by their nature, rather cautious. And hes also, he knows the science but not like jim green who lives and breathes the science. And when were looking, you know, we watch nasa press conferences, and we wait until he speaks so that we can get a sound bite for our radio program. [laughter] hes the one who says Something Interesting every time. [laughter] so its really a delight to have you with us. Thanks for coming. Pleasure. And, yeah. So were going to talk about planets and planet sc
Of the house in 2011 that you would not be able to pass a budget. Is that likely given where we are in the process . Guest we have passed a budget every year in the 12 years we had it. I think we will get there. A budget is always the perils of pauline exercise. You get to the last minute and like pauline will be run over by the train, but it never quite happens. We are continuing to negotiate in good faith. I dont think the budget itself is likely to change very much. Its a matter of law and i think it has passed out of the Budget Committee. But there are some things that some of the folks that have concerns are interested in in terms of addressing entitlements and rules changes that will force us to deal with unauthorized appropriations. I actually think those are good things. Those are things that need to be dealt with. You have to count on the Leadership Team to get it done. Hopefully, they will. The Freedom Caucus has been making requests that seem fairly difficult to grand, sayin