it's not just nasa, lots of students have gone to work for nasa, different centers, nasa contractors, but these kids want to change the world and they want to be entrepreneurial. ac this point -- they see the space program as a way to be entrepreneurial. they want to help the economy through space. it's almost better as when i was a case, in some ways. it's not just nasa doing big projects, it's also the entrepreneurial spirit in which they think they can provide economic benefits for the world as well. the story i want to tell you. on my second -- on my first spaceflight, my second space walk unon hubble, i was able to see the curvature of the earth, all my second , i wanted to see what it was like. i can tell you what was going through my mind. my first thought was, if you were in heaven, this is what you would see. if you could be out there in heaven and look down on the planet, and see how beautiful it was. i was thinking about it and it wasn't enough. i thought, know there's more to it. it's more beautiful than that. this must be what heaven looks like. at that moment i thought w

nasa is a space agency. if they are going to be giving scholarships the funds can be diverted to someplace where they can focus on that. nasa needs to be spending their time in their focus on those things that inspire people. exploration is what i happen to believe in the long-term. they need to be spending their money on those things that inspire others to make their scholarships. i work with scholarships all the time. i believe in them. but i think that the agency -- one more thing that -- a couple dozen people that are working focusing on that as opposed to what they did before, letting the inspiration drive those things. another alternative -- >> i would like to tell a little story about the months before i left nasa. i was asked to go down to another center, where the next program to follow apollo was being looked at. there were hundreds of aerospace engineers. let me describe what the -- this is 1970, we may have flown to apollo 12. it was two stages, fully reusable, on or bitter with wings and wheels

i think nasa has a plan. working with the companies that have been selected -- we have cargo going to the station and now we have astronauts. that is the plan and it seems like they are taking the right steps. the opportunity, the ability to leave our planet is common to all of those things. what would we pick as a destination? you have different things -- people change their mind in the same day. maybe we don't know exactly where we should go, but if we can get the lift capability, the orion capsule ready to go -- they have a plan for another one. it has picked up a lot of momentum. a lot of my friends are still working on it and they are building hardware to go. where that destination is -- whether it is to an asteroid or a moon or mars -- i think will -- i think we will get clearer. maybe we can get there quicker or maybe not. maybe we can go to the asteroid or maybe that is the wrong answer. but i think we are taking the right steps. you can make an argument for each one and maybe the argument is we plan

they are on a nasa campus. one company came out of singularity university and they are making 3-d printers that work in zero gravity. it seems pretty fitting that singularity university is located here at nasa ames research center. we are finding things left and right. hangar one covers eight acres, and apparently it is so big, it would have its own microclimate. sometimes, there would be fog on the ceiling. i saw some really cool looking planes. it is pretty inspiring. why do you think the singularity is here at the nasa ames research center? >> nasa has a certain cachet. nasa invests a lot in looking at the origin of the universe and cosmology. this organization is used to asking big questions. they have large-scale impact. being next-door to that and having access to the scientists that are working on those questions is really valuable. rachel: we are on the second floor of building 20. we are about to talk to the guys at "made in space." what is the advantage of having 3-d printers in outer space? jason: it

more than nasa was originally. of course, now, nasa is in my blood, too. i feel very fortunate that that hasn't gone away. anytime i go out on a photo assignments, especially places i have been over and over, i love that challenge to try to find something new, try to find a new picture. and yet, tell the story in an understandable way. you could just get crazy and take pictures that don't make sense. you have to tell the story as well. for me, that passion has never gone away. that is not entirely true. i have had my moments where i have gone home from work and i have not wanted to pick up a camera. the first time that happened to me, it really scared me. i thought, now what? am i losing it for this? then it comes back. i think that is the one thing for my experience now, i don't freak out when that happens. i just stick with it. the passion always comes back. i love looking at the work of others. i should mention that my colleagues, joel is down a nasa right now, it helps to inspire me to see fresh eyes. being around others that love what i do as well is

i'm the nasa administrator. i always wish for much, much more. this is really hard. and this is very risky. and we are going to lose people and things along the way, but it is so worth it. because what we are going to do for humanity by making us a multi-planet species is unimaginable. it's mind boggling the way it's going to be an advantage to humanity. we can't even imagine it now. >>> coming up 3-d printers can make some amazing things these days. but what about printing human organs? one man says that ten years from now, he will be able to print an entire human heart. >>> and later, a moonshot for energy. we'll show you how scientists are trying to create a star right here on earth. 40% of the streetlights in detroit, at one point, did not work. you had some blocks and you had major thoroughfares and corridors that were just totally pitch black. those things had to change. we wanted to restore our lighting system in the city. you can have the greatest dreams in the world, but unless you can finance those dreams, it doesn't happen. at the time that the bankruptcy

partly had nasa to thank for the technology that followed. the u.s. government helped the -- by buying the initial products helped the computer revolution take off. it's not just the microchip. >> would you like to begin navigation? >> gps technology which is powering the next phase of the revolution was developed by the u.s. military. it was only after the 1983 soviet shootdown of a korean airlines flight -- >> the aircraft strayed into soviet airspace. >> -- the reagan administration said it would share the technology so they would not wander into dangerous territories. the clinton administration opened up the technology to commercial applications that unleashed a flood of innovation that continues today. consider the mapping of the human genome. >> the dna is in there. >> according to the patel memorial institute, the federal government spent $3.8 billion on this massive project from 1990 to 2003 and among few our entities could have ever afforded it. >> we're here to celebrate the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome. >> in le

it's the longest expedition nasa astronaut has ever undertaken. hours ago, arriving safely at the international space station. >> now below 50 meters. >> you're putting yourself at risk. we've never done this before with an american a year in space. it can mess up your eyes it can mess up your heart. it can mess you up. >> there are risks. i'm willing to accept that for what we're going to learn from it. >> reporter: scott, part of a nasa study on whether the human body can survive a trek to mars. but he's not alone on this mission. >> we need to figure out how people are going to live in space for really long periods of time. especially if we want to send somebody to mars or maybe want to send people to -- maybe one day build a base on the moon. >> reporter: that is mark kelly, former shuttle commander, husband to gabby giffords twin brother of scott, and an important part of this mission by staying on earth. >> you get the easy part of this. >> the really easy part. >> reporter: his matching genetic code making him the perfect subject to measure

. >>> the longest space mission ever undertaken by nasa achieved liftoff this afternoon in kazakhstan. on board astronaut scott kelly flashed a thumbs up as he embarks on nearly a full year in orbit. as part of the mission nasa will constantly monitor his vitals and compare them to his genetic mere duplicate on earth, his twin brother mark now an nbc news space and aviation analyst. nbc's peter alexander has more. >> you can see nasa -- >> reporter: with his russian colleagues, astronaut scott kelly is on yet another countdown. this time to do something no other american has ever done, spend an entire year in space. a mission that's already landed him on the cover of "time" magazine. >> care packages -- >> reporter: a lot of attention for soft spoken veteran astronaut who prefers a quiet life in houston. he recently spoke with nbc's tom costello. >> reporter: you will go down as the american astronaut having spent the most time on a space station, setting a record. >> yeah, that's true. what i like to think is records are made to be broken. >> reporter: but this mission's also unique

is investing enough in nasa, in the space program? >> enough is, you know, i would love the budget of anything that i'm working on, whether it's my household or any organization that i support, i'd love it to be increased. it's easy to say nasa's budget should be doubled or why are we, you know, fighting a war why are we doing this when we could be doing that? i have huge respect for the people who actually shoulder the burden of making those decision he because they don't do it light -- decisions because they don't do it lightly. what i try focus on instead is we're given this much money because we're given a level of trust, the taxpayers trust us with this much money and we need to use it to the best of our ability. don't get wrapped up by saying if we only had this much more. we have a pretty big chunk of money to do something that a lot of people are inspired by. to go to a shuttle launch where half a million people go out to watch government employees do their job. to me that was a wonderful reflection of the unspoken respect tha

that ain't what makes nasa special. what makes him special is the complete denial of the science of climate change. the science right at the center of the committee he now chairs. joining me is chief astronomer with the franklin institute darren pitts. when people hear the word nasa they think outer space. it seems there's a decided connection between the science of outer space and the science of earth. tell us, if you will a little more about the interconnectedness of the two fields of study. >> why don't we say nasa's core competence is building equipment that can observe the earth remotely in ways very much similar to how it's been observing planets remotely using space probes to gather information about planets of the solar system. we learned a great deal this way. what nasa has done is used the core competency to create a technology that has expanded our knowledge of the earth's eco system about 100 fold. we now have really good observational capability that brings us data about all all the earth's different system

nasa earth science satellites. i respect the senator's opinion. i think i watched the youtube clip, saw administrator's boldin's thought. my personal opinion is the state lines have revolutionized our understanding of how our complex earth works, and have really paved the way for great advances in understanding and monitoring and predicting flooding and drought, sea level rise ice sheets melting, groundwater depletionings which is the area i work on. without these satellites the human security the water security, the food security and the energy security of all americans would be at tremendous list to borrow a line from my own op-ed -- we would be up a creek. >> if i could edit it down to one sentence we would be a heck of a different world without nasa. i appreciate your time professor. >> thank you. >>> and the state of california? a dire situation. we'll follow the story. >>> at this hour diplomatic talks hit a critical in aing in havana cuba. stay with us. we're right back on "the ed show." i felt trapped in th

i visited nasa's propulsion lab where they track water availability. >> we will be seeing more of this in the future and not just california, but across the whole southwestern united states, a more prolonged drought could become the no normal here. >> the perspective is unique. you get a holistic view of water storage and how it's stored over time. over the last three years, california has lost 4 trillion gallons of water per year. that is more water than all 38 million people in california use each year. >> what are you seeing with your satellites? >> we are seeing in california the last wet season last winter was dryer than most of the previous dry seasons. >> our wet seasons are so dry, they're worse than a dry season. >> that's unbelievable. >> it is. >> much of the united states has been in drought for the last 15 years, but what california is experiencing i go exceptional drought, the most intense categorization. satellite generates impressive data that not only backs what we see on the ground but shows a dangerous tipping point. >> economically, what's that going to do to califo

but no nasa it's become a stepping stone no earth earthlings to reach another planet. >> nasa is firm low a journey to mars. make no mistake that journey will help guide and define our generation. >> reporter: cost overruns and tech knowledge glitches forced a skate back of the station's original grants design. >> but the element that survived throughout it all was to facilitate human exploration further never space. >> reporter: the i.s.s. was supposed to be shutdown by 2020. but u.s. press barack obama has committed to its operation through 2024. yet a government audit has raised questions about that objective. point to go nasa's limited capacity for transporting large replacement parts at short notice. and the station's solar pams wearing out sooner than expected. then there is the matter of cost. private money to maintain the research projects has been running short. and america's international partners have been slow in commit to go extends their participation. they include russia whose vehicles have been the only manned transport to the station since nasa ended its shuttle progr

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. >> reporter: the late gene roddenberry was honored at the nasa. >> these are gene's own word. why are we traveling into space. it's the make the unknown known. we're on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are. >> and the future of the future. >> for us the job is just keep doing it the best we can. >> let's make sure history never forgets the name, enterprise. >> inconceiving of a future's where people work together and make that view a mainstream vision, rodenberry truly went where no one had gone before. >>> the space museum opened a yearlong exhibit celebrating the 26th anniversary of the star trek series. it was the first time that nasa had honored a fictional rather than a real character. >> we haven't fired. >> according to our data banks we have. >> reporter: for over 25 years, they've boldly gone where no man had gone before. and they are about to do it again. >> how did you get up here so fast. >> reporter: the celebrated cast found themselves mugging for the national press at washington's aaron space museum. the museum is honoring the show with its own

. >> and nasa researcher goes on an out of this world mission to prove what many thought impossible. >> wonderful. yes. we're finally going to get started. building spacecraft. getting up there. >> here's nbc bay area's garvin thomas. >> thank you so much for joining us. this is a show unlike any other you will find on bay area tv. one-half hour of nothing but stories about the good people are doing around us. sometimes though even the best of intentions don't pan out exactly as planned. due to no one's fault but the weather. this past winter we all know what a very dry one and time down right warm. that's a serious problem for people who make their living off the land but also for one san jose man who had dreams planted in the soil. his name is rich san forum. he is famous for his backyard garden displays. but this year he wanted to share his passion with many more people. big dreams sometimes require, a big canvas. that perhaps the sim plist answer to a question many who have passed this hillside over the winter may have been asking. namely, just what is that guy doing up there? we

who works in nasa's public affairs office. these two are about to give new meaning to the term long-distance relationship. >> most of my concerns with this flight being gone for a year is stuff that can happen to people on earth while i'm gone. >> kelly who has two daughters from a previous marriage, will be able to call his family by phone whenever he wants. they can have video chats with him once a week. >> i can't imagine be easy for anyone. >> it's not. it's not easy at all. but i think we're both of the mindset, we really appreciate challenge and things that are hard because we often know at the end of it. >> the homecoming is really good after a year. >> a year in space to prepare for a mission to mars for nasa, those are giant leaves indeed. >> i want to speak on my favorite subject. >> osgood: coming up. mr. stuart goes to war. natural gas producer... and we could soon become number one in oil. because hydraulic fracturing technology is safely recovering lots more oil and natural gas. supporting millions of new jobs. b

nasa says knowing this is crucial if ever going to mars or deep space. how will we know if being in space is cause of kelly's body changes? nasa has the perfect specimen to compare him to. his twin brother, retired as astronaut mark kelly. he has scroll tiered for the study. he will be getting poked and prodded by researchers here while scott makes history in orbit. kelly won't be alone. several other crew members will rotate in and out during kelly's stay. >> all right. sanjay gupta. are you geeked out? i know you are based upon our e-mailing back and forth. >> i love this stuff. >> you've undergone some of the same training astronauts have gone through. i've been to space camp twice. no big deal. let's talk about this study between mark and scott. >> this started when mark was going to be the longest nasa astronaut to stay in space. we know what the human body does around the six month mark. there's lots of data what six months of zero gravity does. does that plateau then at a steady state or do things continue to change? is there continued impacts on

. >>> nasa is teaming up with the san francisco company to make a version of google glass. the design group made the glasses that project information -- that project information onto the lenses. the idea is to provide information when astronauts' hands are full such as when they're conducting an experiment in space. >> 3, 2, 1, fire. >> we have ignition of nasa's space launch system -- >> and nasa says today's test of the biggest rocket in history was a success. the rocket could eventually be used in a program nasa is developing to send humans to mars. >>> and just ahead, you're going to meet a brilliant san jose teenager. >> oh, yeah. he took top television announcer: mattress discounters' $197 mattress sale is ending sunday. bulldog: mattress discounters' $197 mattress sale! television announcer: that means sunday is your last chance to get a serta mattress any size for just $197 each piece when you buy the complete set. bulldog: any size mattress - twin, full, queen, or king - for one low price! and they'll deliver it free. television announcer: the $197 mattress sale...

how much more information does nasa have to give us at this point? >> well nasa the pentagon can give us tremendous information on what climate change is going to do to the national defense of this issue which is yet to be heard in congress and in front of committees that deal with pentagon and armed forces. but what it's going to take is real information, empirical scientific information test testimony from experts that brings to the house and members of this congress, both the senate and the house, the information to take this issue much more seriously and don't dismiss it simply because it doesn't tie into the political contributions that we're receiving from corporations. >> congressman, what would you suggest right now? >>, you know i'm not a scientist, so when i sit at a hearing on the natural resources committee, scientists that are providing testimony, i believe it to be empirical, i believe it to be correct, but with the preponderance preponderance, 97%, 98% of the scientists who provide information and do research are telling us that climat

that is a major milestone for nasa another test is planned and if that succeed, the booster will then be used in its post flight, nasa is hoping it could push rockets to destinationness to deep space. >>> nasa has a a new mission for first time agency is sending spacecraft in pur full magnetic storms that occur around earth. tonight four are scheduled to launch from florida's cape canaveral. they cause some of the most bizzarre activity throughout the entire universe and this will help study these phenomenons. we are talking to nasa a scientist as head of the launch in the next hour on our sister station the cw philly, quarter. >> ukee at 6:26. the the fraternity signa alpha epsilon and the university of texas officials are investigate if you go other chapters know the same racist chant used in oklahoma a leaders say a quote horrible cancer enter in the oklahoma chapter three or four years ago and that it was not immediately stopped. the university of oklahoma expelled two students. >>> a brazen crime caught on tape right here, police in washington state say this surveillance video he

nasa contacted google glass and they said we are going to give them to consumers. pete: this is a combination of a process where nasa went into the marketplace and did a search of all of the technology and platforms they thought were appropriate for what they wanted to accomplish. fortunately we were selected which speaks to the power of the platform. cory: what are you trying to allow users to do they could not do without them? pete: these are the glasses. cory: we usually don't do props. these are interesting. they are heavier. is there a check in here? pete: think of it as a laptop you wear on your head. it has all the same features and functions you would find in a tablet. onboard gigabytes of memory. wi-fi, bluetooth, gps. it has sensors so we track had physicians. we know where you are, what you are looking at. -- head positions. we know where you are, what you're looking at. it is a totally integrated system. two hd stereoscopic displays. they are see-through so we projected digital content onto the real world and that helps you become safer, more efficient,

i'm minutes away from boarding this plain with nasa experimentalists. it is a nasa gc-8, trying to measure the pollution and the atmosphere. it's a three pronged attack. the signs of the tc 8, after the u 2 spy plane. the er 2 application is a sight to see. everything about it has the feeling of a flight to space. the men who fly the plane undergo special training and wear a pressurized flight soot. several weather probes collect the information and beam it back to earth. >> seated, door closed. >> the men and women are learning more about climate change and the role humans play in it. >> ready for taxi. >> airport bound. >> it's 9:00 a.m., everyone's seated and it's wheels up. on board, it's like a candy shop of technology inside this flying laboratory. they've got all the high tech tools from lasers to spectrometers and canisters and gases everything to measure the chemistry in the sky. the man at the center of it all, mission director walt kline. why is this mission so important? >> because if we don't do anything about it we're just going to continu

it will be a big first for nasa. >> yeah, a year is a very long time. i flew up on the space station for six and a half months. i was the commander about ten years ago and as long as you know when you're coming back and set your expectations and i think it would be a lot tougher if they just told you we're going to ut put you up there but we're not sure when we're going to bring you back. when i was getting ready to fly ten years ago there was a proposal for my crew to fly for an entire year. that was something they sprung on us a few months before launch. and i'm not disappointed that it didn't happen. i was six and a half months was enough. >> six and a half months was enough. but let me ask you in terms of your experience, what were some of the biggest challenges spending that much time in space? >> sure, like i said, it's a matter of setting your expectations after you're up there for a while. we used to fly two-week shuttle missions before we had a space station. once we started flying longer duration flights we found what the russians already knew

that's the ominous warning from a senior nasa scientist. today san jose's mayor unveiled a bold water plan but it has big questions and a big price tag. chief meteorologist jeff ranieri is tracking our drought but we begin with marianne favro in san jose with details. >> reporter: as you can see here with this groundwater recharge basin, our water supply is quickly drying up which is why the mayor wants san jose to rely more heavily on recycled water. san jose's mayor wants his city to become the water recycling capital of the water and he wants the silicon valley advanced water purification center to play a critical role. >> san jose would become the largest city in the country to deploy this technology. >> reporter: right now that technology is used to recycle 8 million gallons of water a day for landscaping and industrial uses. he now wants to triple production within the next two

. >>> a dire prediction about the lingering droughts from a top nasa scientist. >>> isis is expanding its reach into west africa. there's word today it's teaming up with boko haram, the same terror group that kidnapped hundreds of nigerian school children last year. they are also responsible for an estimated 10,000 killings. the move comes as both groups struggle from increase in military pressure. yesterday, the u.n. security council proposed to supply money, equipment, troops and intelligence to a five-nation african force fighting boko haram. >>> it's been eight months since a journalist born and raised in the bay area was imprisoned in iran. earlier, i spoke to his brother as well as his editor about what happened and how they are trying to win his freedom. there's been a lot of focus on the iran nuclear program. but there's also tension concerning a man from the bay area. since july 2014, the tehran bureau chief from the washington post, jason, has been detained in an iranian prison. the charges against him are unknown. he's not been granted access to an attorney. joining me from

and nasa is ready for takeoff. nasa will study kelly in space and his twin on earth to determine the affects of long term space flight t. the rocket is planned to launch this afternoon. this is "first look" on nbc. "way too early" starts right now. ♪ >>> it's friday march 27th the end of a huge news week. live from washington busy news morning once again. we're going to begin in the french alps where the families of passengers on germanwings now come to grips what w what has happened. we now know the crash that killed all people on board was a deliberate act. and questions are now focussed not on what happened and why. loved ones arrived near the crash site on thursday hours after hearing the horrifying news about how their relatives were killed. the search for victims and debris now on its fourth day. crews are looking for anything that can help identify people. the plane was at its cruising altitude when the pilot could be heard leaving the cockpit. the pilot tries to get back in first knocking and then banging

in one case nasa puts the entire bill. and the other case nasa might contribute to the development but as a partner a partner the company itself has to make some investment. by doing so they have more say in what the designers and in some cases complete saying the design. i i don't know if that is the question your asking. >> the design. >> if you're going to design a spacecraft it has to be able to dr. this doctor this docking port, me certain human requirements for safety. we want quantify this many people. this is what we want the spacecraft. however you want to design it will be great. i'm oversimplifying quite a bit, but you get the idea. >> going to scrap the shuttle. >> i obviously i obviously have mixed feelings when we decided to retire the space shuttle. what made it makes sense to me was the fact that we were tired the space shuttle program so that we could pay for them and program. we were going to establish a presence on the moon. to me i think the next logical step of human exploration is to establish a a tra

nasa scientist have documented cardiac arith mays and -- arrhthymias and more. also astronauts are at greater risk for broken bones and osteoporosis. how is being confined on a space station for long periods of time affect your thoughts and behavior in nasa says knowing this is kraushl if we're ever going to mars or deep space. how will we know if being in space is the cause of kelly's body changes? nasa has the perfect specimen to compare him to -- his twin brother, retired astronaut mark kelly. mark kelly has volunteered for nasa's twin study to see how the identical twin change over a year in very different environments. mark will be here on earth getting poked and prodded by researchers, while scott makes history in orbit. kelly won't be alone on the space station. a russian cosmonaut also is taking part in the one-year mission. and several other crew members will rotate in and out during kelly's stay. >> a fascinating year for sure. thank you for watching. i'm natalie allen. my colleague, isa suarez is up next with news from london. -- captions by vitac --

. >>> days away from what could be nasa's most ambitious mission. sending an astronaut in to space for an entire year. you are watching "world news now." >> announcer: "world news now" >>> by the end of this week, na >>> by the end of this week, nasa will be embarking on one of the most defining missions of its history. sending a man in to space for an entire year. >> the mission involves two of nasa's most prominent astronauts but as abc's david kerley explains only one of them will ever leave the ground. >> you get the easy part of this. >> the really easy part. >> i get the fun part. >> scott kelly's idea of fun starts this friday, day one of 365 days in orbit. living at the international space station to find out how the human body is affected by long-duration space flight. he showed me the cramped quarters in the soyuz capsule. that will give him his ride. and in orbit a year of his life will be in the real version, not this model of the space station. >> there's not a lot of room in here. pretty comfortable for space bedroom. >> we need to fig

nasa's first stab at a one-year space flight. anticipating mars expeditions that would last two to three years. they're setting off from kazakhstan. as you can see from russia's manned space launch facility on the steps of kazakhstan. (?) it will dock with the station. just a few hours. now, this year-long experiment is fascinating. both kelly and his twin brother mark in a year are going to undergo -- 30 seconds to launch. undergo the same experiment. one on earth. one on mars. mark married to gabrielle giffords. he'll be up there for years. he has girlfriends. kids. let's hear the final moments. >> the engine is igniting ramping up. (?) and liftoff. the year in space starts now. kelly are s on his way to the international space station. (?) getting good first age performance. delivering 930,000 pounds of thrust. four strap-on boosters and single engines. getting reports nominal operation. the first age measuring 58 feet in length. burning liquid fuel for the first two minutes and six seconds in the flight. continuing to get vie

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bill: leave it up to nasa to come up with the next novel idea. nasa looking for new gripping technology inspired bit gekko. what is going on with that? adam housley is live in our west coast newsroom. what is up with that, adam? >> reporter: always say you can learn a lot from nature bill right? we've been in areas where gekkos live or lizards for that matter but gekkos in this instance. they go up walls and walk around with no problem whatsoever. nasa along with other scientists are taking a look at this to find a way to use technology from gekkos to make their lives easier way up in space. scaling a building may be hollywood magic for now -- >> you're not growing to make it. >> you're not helping. >> reporter: but scientists are using nature to make this mission possible. >> we always had it in mind that there were applications outside of nature. so i mean we're engineers. so in some sense it is like solution looking for a problem. >> this one holds a little less than 10 pounds. >> reporter: stanford researchers are working with scientists at n

nasa is going conduct a study with two very famous twins they're both astronauts scott and mark kelly. scott kelly will head to the international space station, he'll spend an entire year there and his identical twin brother mark kelly will remain on earth. nasa is going to see how space affects human organs, decision making organisms that develop in the stomach the way genes react as compared to what happens with markel who is here on earth experiencing normal gravity and so forth. mark kelly by the way is the husband of former congresswoman gaby giffords. some great research they're going to get from these twins. >> it will be fascinating because i think at some point man will be able to live in space or other planets at that time it will be interesting to get the early data on what that will do to us. >>> we're following breaking news. we learned overnight actress angelina jolie took another big step to cut her risk of cancer. >> a dirt bike collides with an suv in northeast philadelphia with tragic results and the driver of the suv gives "action news" his firsthand account of the

there's the public one nasa, the space shuttle, apollo, all that kind of stuff. there's another space agency that builds secret sat satellites. -- satellites. they build classified reconnaissance satellites for themselves and they serve the d.i.a., the c.i.a., the national geospatial intelligence. cory: so the satellite that blew up a few weeks ago big secret nerds with telescopes saw it. guest: what happened in early february is that a military weather satellite, this is actually an air force satellite, called dmsp-13 the satellite that was launched in 1995, in early february something happened to it. and it looks like it exploded. this was seen by an amateur astronomer in the u.k. basically with a pair of binoculars. i think this thing blew up. about 20 days later, i think the air force finally fessed up and confirmed that this thing had indeed exploded. not really sure why. nobody's really saying, if anybody knows at all. but it's actually not the first time that one of these spacecraft had blown up. there was another one, an earlier one that something similar