nasa and boeing along with a former nasa restaurant whoastronaut who flew aboard the space shuttle "columbia." this is about 45 minutes. >> the committee on space will come to order. and without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the subcommittee at any time. good morning. welcome to today's hearing titled the international space station, addressing operational challenges. in front of you are packets containing the written testimony biographies and truth in testimony disclosures for today's witnesses. i recognize myself for five minutes for an opening statement. good morning. i'd like to welcome everyone to our hearing today and thank the witnesses for taking time to appear before our committee. since 2013 the iss program has experienced a number of challenges. as a can-do nation, america has always been committed to identifying challenges. addressing them to and advancing to reach out and reach our goal and destiny. we have that same commitment with the iss. during this time, astronauts have experienced water leaks in their suits three times with one inciden

. we've had concerns about that raised here in this committee. in addition to nasa researchers and nasa support academic researchers, the iss laboratory management has drawn new commercial users, including pharmaceutical companies to the iss. hover, while the range of iss uses is expanding the resources to support them are not. funding for the iss research represents a mere 12% of the overall iss budget. constraints on cargo transportation, as well as available power and precious crew time limit what research can be accomplished at the station. in that regard i know many of us want to understand the implications of cargo resupply operations. crew operations and the sustainability of the station. in addition, mr. chairman, there's critical work to be done on the iss and human health research and technology development that needs to be carried out if we're going to make progress toward the long-term goal of sending humans to mars. in january 2014, the obama administration proposed to extend iss operations until at least 2024. the administration has three rationales for the extension.

highlight the challenges of operating in space. they remind us that nasa's contractors engineers and astronauts must be ever vigilant. these events have challenged the iss operations but the fact that the program was able to effectively respond to these setbacks is a testament to nasa, the iss partners, and contractors. we do not know the root causes of some of the accidents yet but once we have more information we will be better suited to review those individual events. in the meantime this hearing allows us to evaluate the operational status of the iss, repeat efforts to utilize the unique assets and assess the prospects for future operations. the iss is one of the most complex and expensive man-made objects ever built. the american taxpayers currently invest approximately $3 billion per year in this laboratory. we must ensure that every dollar is spent effectively and efficiently. the iss offers a unique microgravity environment for scientists and engineers to utilize. nasa recently released its benefits to humanity publication this week detailing the many benefits that iss provid

sufficient resources i am very optimistic that nasa can deliver another decade of rigorous translation research. i sincerely thank you for your support of the program and the opportunity to a year. >> thank you, dr. pawelczyk. i think all the witnesses for your testimony. members are reminded committee will limit questioning to five minutes. the chair now recognizess himself for five minutes. this question will be for gerste gerstenmeyer mr.. the space x mission had a water filtration device, docking mechanism and a new spacesuits on board. can you explain the impact of the loss of these items on the iss and commercial crew programs and how do you plan to mitigate these impacts? >> we will start with the international docking adaptor scheduled for commercial crew. it was lost. we wanted to have two units on orbit because of -- before beginning commercial crew flight. we still we believe we will support that schedule we will take part from a third unit that was being assembled at the spare or back up and and work with the contract to go ahead and extend that and get it delivered on time

. witnesses at the hearing included officials from nasa and boeing and a former astronaut. earlier this year, the obama administration announced its support to extend it to 2024. this hearing was chaired by house an hour and 45 minutes. >> the committee on space will come to order, without objection, the chair's authorized to declare recesses of the subcommittee at any time. good morning. welcome to today's hearing entitled the international space station addressing operational challenges. in front of you are pacts containing the written testimony and truth in testimony disclosure for today's witnesses. i recognize myself for five minutes for an opening statement. the i.s.s. program has experienced a number of challenges. as a can-nation, america has been committed to identifying challenges addressing them and reach our goal and destiny. we have that same commitment with the i.s.s. during this time, astronauts have experienced water leaks in their suits three times with one incident occurring during a space walk. on april 26, 2013, unmanned cargo vehicle damaged a radar reflector when d

states is changing the way it operates in space. territory that was once largely monopolized by nasa has slowly been ceded to the private sector. >> like all good corporations, these companies are armed with slick promotional videos. and their excellent pr machines are generating hours of airtime, >> well i think we could probably send the first person in about 12 years. >> wow >> and mostly positive news reports. >> it's going to be an incredibly exciting year. and we're very, very happy to be a part of this project. >> but there seems to be a lack of some fundamental questions. how has this all come about? and what does the future hold if corporations-who hope to generate huge profits-hold the key to the final frontier? >> in the spring of 1961 the united states is locked in this very desperate struggle with the soviet union over the cold war. and it's really a battle over the economic and political systems that are going to rule the world. >> on april 12th, 1961, the russian cosmonaut yuri gagarin broke through earth's atmosphere. delivering a body blow to us dominance in science.

research and nasa peer-reviewed research is needed. you asked about critical areas of research. the life and physical sciences survey which was completed in 2011 at congress' request summarized the sequence 6 -- summarized an sequenced 65 high priority tasks. furthermore, the study created two research plans. one with the goal of building a research enterprise and the other with a goal of a human mission to mars. more about those goals in a moment. you asked about priorities. prioritizing i.s.s. research isn't a new concept. in fact, we been working on that problem for close to 15 years. but the key question for prioritization isn't scientific. it's programmatic. it is something like this. shall discovery research or fundamental research or translational research take precedence in the mature years of the i.s.s. program? the answer to that question has to be provided by government. once those programmatic priorities are sequenced can we prioritize the research? absolutely. the l.p.s. survey provided a very detailed scheme that used eight unique criteria to do so. the process for operatio

been part of government controlled space travel. >> at the time of the apollo missions- nasa was receiving over 5% of the us federal budget. in 2013, it was less than one half of one percent. >> 4...3...2...1...and lift off! lift off of the 25th space shuttle mission and it has cleared the tower. >> and the agency's prestige has declined with that funding. in spite of its many major achievements, it's nasa's failures that have grabbed america's attention. >> engines throttling up. three engines now at 104 percent. challenger, go at throttle up. "roger go at throttle up." >> both challenger and columbia suggested the management system and safety culture at nasa was flawed. "flight controllers here looking very carefully at the situation. obviously a major malfunction." >> after columbia it meant that we really needed to think about moving on. >> nasa retired the space shuttle in 2011 - the program deemed too expensive. it also meant that us government could no longer consider itself a gatekeeper to space travel. >> we are now in a very uncomfortable position of relying on the russ

testament to nasa, iss and contractors. we do not know the root cause is yet but once we have more information do we will be better suited to review those events. we kiddy vibrate the operational status of the iss to assess the prospects of future operations. the iss is one of the most complex manmade object ever built for the american taxpayers invest $3 billion per year in this laboratory. we must ensure every dollar is spent effectively and efficiently it offers a microgravity environment for scientist a and engineers to utilize. nasa ever released the benefits this retailing the many benefits iss improvises back to our lives on earth. from expansive is of human health and performance the benefits we received are many and diverse the iss offers the conditions necessary for critical technologies and nasa authorization to read the administration to utilize the iss folder this port -- purpose. that nasa is on the cutting edge to develop the system we need ever deeper into the solar system. right now captain kelly is on day 104 of his yearlong mission for human spaceflight. in addit

capabilities nasa can had a crew member to devote most of the time to research to double the research time. however many technical challenges than the ability to fund the program could delay the efforts. finally even if they can navigate the challenges challenges, demonstrating a return on investment is difficult and scientific research. in the short term it is essential that the continued to make progress to achieve the goal of the increased role and we reported that nasa could do more to define and assess on progress and for example, by assigning a measurable targets to the annual performance the tricks. they concurred and agreed to take action and respondent in conclusion it will likely require continued investment through 2024 and as a result to reassure the capabilities are being used to support scientific gains is critical furthermore to mr. duke and communicating the return on investment to help support nasa to achieve the shared goal to sustained commercial markets in low earth orbit. this concludes my prepared remarks i am happy to take any questions you may have. >> now live a li

unemployment. >> nasa scientists told a news briefing to discuss the latest linux of the new horizons spacecraft which is great took the first close-up images of the dwarf planet pluto and its moons. from nasa's headquarters in washington, d.c. is in one hour. nasa he >> well good afternoon and welcome to nasa headquarters and our nation's capital. dwayne i'm dwayne b brown from nasa'sfice of office of communications. following the july 14 historic pluto flyby by nasa's new horizons spacecraft the research team has begun sharing the-by the unprecedented images andrese science findings with the world. and today they have more. ladies and gentlemen thiseen nation has clearly been embraced by the entire world of all ages. in fact, the numbers are coming in with multimedia of social media, the internet radio, tvradi is in the billions. bill we also want to give a nasa headquarters shot out ashley shout out to the johns hopkins the john center in maryland for the unforgettable moment at their physic facility this week. we have now transition. to nasa with the future media briefings will be

. >> and what a road trip. nasa's new horizon probe reaches plu pluto. >>> from nbc bay area, this is "today in the bay." >> it is an action-packed tuesday morning. thank you for joining us. it's 4:30, i'm sack sam brock. >> i'm laura garcia cannon. first let's check the forecast. >> good morning. we all get the red memo this morning, apparently. as you walk out the door, we're feeling temperatures in the 60s across most of the bay. and mostly clear skies, and in the north bay, it's cool. 56 degrees as you start out the day. and as we go into the afternoon, another nice day, but slightly warmer than yesterday. especially in the north bay and in the tri valley, reaching 86 degrees in the north bay. san francisco, about the same as yesterday. peninsula, 79 degrees. and the south bay, topping out at 84 degrees. temperatures going up the next couple of days. i'll show you that coming up in the microclimate forecast. good morning, mike. >> i think that red was inspired by the temperature mappings you have coming up. looking here, not because of the red lights, tail lights across the san ma

moments ago we learned a nasa spacecraft has survived an historic journey. kpix 5's mark sayre tells us the new horizons spacecraft has just phoned home from pluto. can't get out much farther than that, mark. >> reporter: no, you can't, ken a whole lot of excitement here at the nasa ames research center in mountain view where that confirmation from three billion miles away arrived just a short time ago. >> we have a healthy spacecraft. we have recorded data from the pluto system. and we're outbound for pluto. >> yeah! [ applause ] >> reporter: now, this was the scene at nasa's main control center in laurel, maryland as the confirmation arrived on earth just before 6:00. it was a mission that launched in january of 2006 and only today finally reached its destination. but now that we know the fly-by was successful, it's going to be at least another day before we see the first pictures. and nasa scientists say it will take a year before all the data gathered from today's fly-by will be downloaded here on earth. we are going to have a complete look at the project with reaction from insid

afternoon. alan martin is live in the newsroom keep an eye on nasa. this is some exciting stuff. >> yes it is. any minute now nasa is expected to release some spectacular new pictures of pluto from the new horizons be scrapped. in the meantime we are monitoring nasa tv. they have been showing us video from mission control. let's listen in to the press conference that started. >> the first image that i would like to bring up was taken about two hours ago by the solar dynamics observatory. i hope you recognize that object, and i think you know where we are going. mercury. from the messenger mission, venus. from magellan. if anyone doesn't recognize the next planet, i would like you to leave the auditorium. [laughter] security will escort you to area 51. [laughter] [applause] the red planet mars, i had to get a hubble image in their somewhere. [laughter] [applause] i realized that i missed a series, jupiter with some of the jovian moons and shadow. from the galileo spacecraft cassini, it is saturn. this is a striking image. uranus, someone made a crackdown they put it in sideways.

shares surge and bezos adds a fortune to his fortune. air traffic control for drones, why nasa is getting involved. tesla at $500 a share. is that crazy? lung board's -- longboard: wilcox. now to the lead, square has filed for public offering, this according to people with knowledge of the matter. square is in the mobile payments business. the platform was founded by jack dorsey, you know him as a cofounder of twitter. currently he is the interim ceo. last year the company processed $30 billion in payments from millions of merchant customers. it is expanding into other areas like business lending and payroll processing. joining us to discuss their future is leslie picker who broke the story for bloomberg news. also the cofounder of button. and on the phone is sarah frier, who covers both square and twitter for bloomberg news. leslie, why file confidentially isn't that suspect? leslie: because they can. they have less than $1 billion in revenue. it gives them the opportunity to make revisions with the fcc, it is about a three month process. if you are a so-called emerging growth co

about the end of the shuttle and follow 2010 which is about when that decision was made final. nasa decisions never seem all that firm. they are sort of deciding what nasa will do in the future's. the news came out. we have these missions left to do. it felt uncertain but seemed like it was probably going to be the end of an era. a lot of other events. i was invited to get the things that were not anticipated. but i think i had started with the idea said last lots of discovery, endeavor, atlantis and each of us to be different following that trajectory was sort of following what it's like. >> were you always a major character? wasn't always you going to want? was there ever a version of the book that was a little bit more abstract and historical? >> it was always 1st person, me going to watch and partly because i so admire the nonfiction writers. you do use your poor ties. the kind of technique where they talk about their own experience including the experience of being bitten by mosquitoes or eating coffee or wishing that you want their. the respond well to historic events being wr

look at how nasa got images of the dwarf lannett, and the extra and here in space exploration. plus a chipmaker bought -- offered micron a big deal. there is a new backlash from authors an independent booksellers, all of that ahead on "bloomberg west." . world powers reach a landmark deal with iran. iran's nuclear activities will be scaled back so they cannot build a nuclear weapon. in exchange, sanctions that have crippled the economy will be lifted. iran will get rid of uranium remember -- remove two thirds of its centrifuges. they will allow online monitoring iv international atomic energy agency. here is leon -- liam, who specializes in the nature of security breaches. we also have jordan from washington dc. we also have edward. thank you so much for joining us. professor iran used to produce uranium at 93%, that was brought down to 20%, now 3.67% how landmark is this deal? professor: this deal is adequate to ensure they will not build nuclear weapons in my opinion. emily: what does that mean? professor: what is -- that is what most of the reactors run on. almost every other count

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the solar system. nasa 3 billion mile trip to pluto. we will talk to the nasa director of planetary science. mark: good afternoon from bloomberg world headquarters in new york. i'm mark crumpton here with matt miller. matt: let's get straight to the market and look at how it is trading this afternoon. s&p 500 putting up a gain of about 8.5 points. the dow jones industrial average came back up into positive territory for the year and is up 70 points. and what take a look at treasuries. buying going on there, pushing down the yield on the 10 year. the 30 year bond yielding 3.20. do you want to look at the euro? the greece story is the gift that keeps on giving for the media. we make light, but it's a tragedy for the people living in that country. the euro has been incredibly resilient and continues to trade around $1.10. when we were worried about getting no agreement and in a from the euro, we did not get a big drop. gets chancegreece to stay in the eurozone, we do not see a big drop or vice versa. mark: let's look at some of the top stories crossing the bloomberg terminal. we begin

- open in about an hour. >>> well, we are getting our closest look yet at the dwarf planet pluto. nasa shared its latest shots from the new horizons probe captured during the flying by yesterday. the findings surprising. they say the terrain is mountainous and icy. mark sayre is live at nasa ames in mountain view. some significant findings. what else are we learning about pluto today? >> reporter: what nasa released today is only the first little bit of data and photos that we expect to be getting over the next year. and scientists indeed were impressed. >> here's the image. here it comes. >> reporter: as the first high resolution photo of pluto was revealed, you can hear the amazement. scientists in the room. >> whoo! [ applause ] >> reporter: scientists are already learning new details about both pluto and its largest moon, sharon. >> in my case, i certainly didn't expect sharon to show nearly the degree of different terrains and variety or the youthful surface it shows us. that's a surprise. that's a balloon popping. >> reporter: just as exciting as what scientists did not see, ther

simple matter. pasadena, california is home to the mars program at nasa's jet propulsion laboratory. nasa has taken man to the moon and back. but they've approached this journey with a much more deliberate and rigorous training program. >> i'm now on the base on mars and i will give you a little tour. >> in 2015, six volunteer scientists walked out of a dome on the side of a hawaiian volcano after being locked away by nasa for eight months. this was a simulated experiment of what life on mars would be like. coexisting is one challenge. getting there and surviving is an entirely different endeavor. >> landing on mars is still a pretty, well sometimes it can be quite a terrifying thing. >> dr. richard zurek is the chief scientist for the mars program at nasa's jet propulsion laboratory. >> a lot of things have to happen right. right now we fly into the atmosphere, we have a heat shield that protects us, but we're also trying to slow down so we can land softly. we're talking about a very different scale of endeavor. we're landing a metric ton down on the planet today, we think for huma

from nasa. earth has a cousin thousands of light-years away. what we have in common with this newly discovered planet. >> and a four-legged snake? the fossil that shows these re >>> autopsy results of the woman found dead in a texas jail cell show nothing to indicate she was murdered by anyone else. prosecutors say it appears sandra bland committed suicide. brian webb reports she also had marijuana in her system. >> reporter: texas prosecutors say the autopsy of 28-year-old sandra bland she is suicide marks. >> there were no by the marks anywhere on her which would be consistent with a violent struggle. >> get out now! >> reporter: she was arrested during a traffic stop on july 10. the officer said she changed lanes without a signal. bland was jailed on $5,000 bond. three days later, police say her body was found hanging from a partition in her cell. a plastic garbage bag was tied around her neck. prosecutors say bland didn't have any defensive wounds on her hands, about 30 cut marks on her forearm not recent. >> they may have been placed on her body roughly 2 to 4 weeks prior to he

space. they remind us that the nasa contractors and engineers and astronauts must be vigilant they have challenged operations but the fact that the program could effectively respond to the setbacks is a testament to nasa, the iss partners and contractors. we do not know the root cause the ones we have more reformation we are better suited to review those events. in the meantime this allows us to evaluate the status of the iss cover review efforts of the the cassettes to assess the prospects for future operations. it is one of the most complex and expensive man-made objects ever built the taxpayers invest approximately $3 billion per year in his laboratory. we must insure every dollar is spent effectively and efficiently. of the iss offers a unique microgravity environment for scientists and engineers to utilize. nasa released benefits to humanity this week detailing the benefits it provides to our lives here on earth with understanding of human health and performance the use of new material of robotics and satellites the benefits we received are many and diverse in remarkable. in a

. >> cheers that could be felt 3 billion miles away. euphoria breaks out at nasa. the excitement goes beyond the science community. jonathan bloom is at the nasa ames research center where pluto is capturing the imagine aigss of the young and old. >> it's been 35 years since nasa first explored a new planet. pluto was always where we couldn't get to. there's a spacecraft that just hours ago made its closest past to that icy dwarf planet. now everyone is waiting for it to send a signal back to earth. >> who wants to go to pluto to too late. you should have been on the rocket 9 1/2 years ago. >> when new horizons left the earth, some of the kids here weren't even born. >> the pictures might tell us about the surface of the planet and about exactly how big the atmosphere is. >> some of the things astronomers have wondered. >> this is something i've been waiting for since childhood. >> the first stunning views of pluto close up. >> pluto has turned out to be an extraordinarily complex and interesting world. >> nasa scientists know the best is yet to come. >> 4 3 2, 1! >> after new horizons compl

emily chang. this is "bloomberg west." we will look at how nasa got incredible images of the dwarf planet and talk to some experts in space exploration. plus, micron is i'd to the tune of $23 billion. should micron hold out for a better offer? amazon is reportedly facing a new backlash from authors and independent booksellers. all of that, ahead on "bloomberg west." world powers reached a landmark deal with iran. after years of negotiation their nuclear activities will be scaled back and cannot tilde -- build a nuclear weapon. in exchange, sanctions that would have crippled the economy in iran would have been lifted requiring them to get rid of 98% of their enriched uranium. keeping them under international supervision. capping the enrichment at 3.67%, crucially allowing online monitoring by the international atomic energy agency. here to break it down for us is the senior manager who specializes in identifying the nature of these security breaches. we have also got jordan robertson with us from washington, d.c.. with me in the studio you see a professor of nuclear engineering. tha

years on the run before his arrest last year. ♪[ music ]♪ >>> i'm mark sayre live at nasa ames where scientists are awaiting the first signals from pluto. they should arrive shortly. we'll tell you what's happening here just ahead. >> plus, dangerous accidents involving a san francisco icon. changes to protect both drivers and riders of cable cars. >>> the suspect in the vallejo kidnapping case may be connected to unsolved home invasions on the peninsula. kpix 5's devin fehely with a look at those cases. >>> reporter: palo alto police say harvard educated attorney matthew muller was on their radar long before he became the prime suspect in a bizarre vallejo kidnapping. >> this case really was concerning to us, um, right from the get-go. >> reporter: investigators say muller was the named suspect in a 2009 home invasion at this palo alto cottage in which the suspect threatened to rob and rape his female victim but they didn't have enough evidence to charge him. >> the story is bizarre. it doesn't add up. it doesn't make sense. >> reporter: this psychology professor at santa clar

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woods. >>> also ahead, nasa's $3 billion mile journey. now a pluto-perfect mission. >>> warm welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. glad to be with you. i'm zain asher. >> i'm max foster and this is cnn newsroom. >> nearly two years of stop and go negotiations are resulted in a landmark agreement aimed at restricting iran's nuclear program. >> iranians celebrated the accord in the streets of teheran. the agreement iran and six world powers reached now needs the support of iran's supreme leader and the u.s. congress. >> let's walk you through the agreement key points. firstly, iran will cut the number of centrifuges by two-thirds. it caps uranium enrichment and limits the stockpile for 15 years. >> iran must give atomic energy inspectors constant access to key nuclear facilities. the u.s. says sanctions relief will be phased in as certain conditions are met. if iran violates the agreement, sanctions will return. u.s. lawmakers have 60 days to review the agreement and vote whether to approve it. >> plenty of republicans have said they intend to sink this deal

personal. nasa says it discovered a new planet, the one looks closest like the earth. we'll tell you more about it. >>> checking the u.s. stock market ahead of the opening bell. you have gains across the board after losses yesterday. it has been a rough week for the markets. hey, it's friday, people! imdagen mcdowell in for sandra smith. joined by lauren simonetti and nicole petallides. welcome to "fbn:am," the latest look at the markets, the breaking news and what to expect in the day ahead. in breaking news a gunman opens fires at a movie theater in lafayette, louisiana, killing two people and injuring are seven others before taking his own life. the authorities identify the shooter as a 58-year-old white man but they're not releasing his name as the investigation continues. there were 100 people in the theater at the time of the shooting. they found suspicious items in the vehicle and decided to set off some explosions. we'll have a live report from lafayette in a few minutes. >>> breaking business news this morning, amazon.com shocking wall street with an unexpected profit in the most

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morning. >>> and reaching new horizons. a nasa spacecraft goes where none other has been before. pluto with a mission far from over. >>> more trouble for reddit, as well. we'll walk you through the drama coming up in business and tech. >>> and maybe you would like to walk or run across the golden gate bridge. at least these commuters traveling quickly across. another car manufacturer is under investigation >>> new this morning, another car manufacturer is under investigation for exploding air bags. the national highway traffic safety administration says arc automotive incorporated made air bag inflaters that could potentially malfunction. investigation covers hundreds of thousands of chrysler and kia vehicles. it comes after massive fallout with japanese air bag maker takata. they recalled 38 million inflaters in the u.s. for a similar problem. >> all those problems at reddit have blown up. >> scott mcgrew, new accusations against the company this morning and another resignation. >> yeah, good morning to you. reddit has hit that crisis point all crisis managers dread, sam and la

moment and you may never hear from it again. >> after nasa receives the first messages. >> that day find out what they were thinking was true about the water under the ice and under the surface. >> there was a time when we could only imagine what mars looked like. now with the help of new horizons we can stop guessing at what pluto looks like. at the science center in oakland, alan wang abc7 news. >>> the president took to twitter to congratulate the new team. he tweeted this message pluto just had their first visitor. thanks nasa. it is a great day for discovery and american leadership. >>> it is a big deal for at least two bay area companies. nasa gave facebook owned instagram the first surface image of pluto an hour before releasing it to the world. it is the first time the space agency has ever done that with a social media site. nasa says it is trying to attract new audiences for especially young people. >>> recovering after surviving a plane crash. next on abc7 news, new details on the 16-year-old who made it out alive and the emotional 9-1-1 call. plus a robber shoves a gun i

regulatory affairs hope to respond quickly to the permit question. >>> right now, nasa's new horizons spacecraft is getting closer and closer to pluto. nasa says it will arrive at about 7:49 this morning. we could learn secrets from dwarf planet's surface as early as today. now the journey has covered nine years and billions of miles so far. nasa has put out a graphic essentially explaining how precise this journey had to be. it's essentially like throwing a strike in baseball from about 3 billion miles away. the spacecraft has to hit this box that -- go back, has to hit the box that you see right here in order for this to actually transmit or gather information, critical information from pluto and one of pluto's moons as well. this box is about 60 x 90 miles wide. new horizons will spend less than half an hour in the prime location. even smaller box inside really is the one that's the prime spot. nasa says it's right on target at this point. however we won't find out if this experiment really worked until about 9:00 tonight when images come back. >> a strike from 3 million miles away

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the big bay area party tonight as nasa scientists make history 3 billion miles away. i'm ken bastida. >> i'm veronica de la cruz. liz has the night off. pluto is known as the icy planet but christin ayers shows us we earthlings are giving it a very warm welcome. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: this is the sound of success a decade in the making as cheers went up inside nasa's mission control. hundreds of people at this party were cheering too. >> it is really monumental. >> it is a moment in history. >> it is really exciting. we got all the way out to pluto. >> it is cool. >> reporter: just shy of the dwarf planet pluto, the spacecraft new horizon phoned home with essentially this message. >> yeah, i'm still working and everything went cool. >> reporter: new horizons sent back this very cool image of pluto. scientists explain the probe which is the size of a baby grand piano has been hurdling through space at about a million miles a day. >> it is approximately seven miles a second. at that speed, you could cross the united states in about six minutes. >> reporter: new horizons s

enough. they are urging patients to fight back. >>> and earth's cousin, nasa makes an amazing discovery. is there life out there? "nightly news" begins right now. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt reporting tonight from washington. >>> good evening. all the warnings and fears of a hot dry summer are coming to pass in the drought stricken west where dangerous wildfires are ranging in no fewer than three states from northern california where residents are fleeing threatened neighborhoods east of the napa valley to montana. where fire has flushed vacationers from picturesque glacier national park. with still months to go, the western fire season has already far outpaced last year's. leaving a lot of americans on edge. nbc's hallie jackson is covering it for us tonight from winters, california. >> reporter: in california wine country, nine square miles torched, flames and smoke so thick they blocked out the sun. >> we've got carriers involved at this time. the wind shifted. >> reporter: what started as a brush fire exploded fast, wind whipping it across ste

until 6:00 now. haepg today, nasa happening today, nasa will make an announcement. kipler has been in the search for earth-like planets for six years now and some are hoping nasa has finally found one. >>> the current earth we have a new look at it. nasa released a new photo of earth taken from"$ orbiting more than a million miles away. you can see north and south america there. this is an up dated version of last full image of weather that was taken in 1972. >>> a new app will help people navigate the events surrounding the pope's visit in september. it's called go philadelphia. the official unveiled the app yesterday. it will offer information to visitors in the city during the papal visit. one event on the app is a four-day film festival. >> i'm closed after having screened 13 films on the evening of friday, september 25th, just before pope france' highly anticipated arrival in philadelphia. >> some of the films at that invisible and wizard of oz. we have an app that shows you everything you need to know for getting around and preparing for the papal visit. oosh he. >>> new from ov