>> roger, we agree with that. and columbia, houston, just for information you dropped them right on target, the folks are getting ready to fish them, and bring them back. >> okay, the arrival was pretty neat. >> the solid rocket boosters which separated from the columbia's planned, two minutes and 11 seconds into the flight, landed in the atlantic motion, under 50 miles downrange from the launch site. after being towed back to kennedy space center, both boosters will be refurbished and used again in a future shuttle flightrsñ. the third and fourth burns are also successful. raising columbia's orbit to an altitude of approximately 172 miles. for the first television transmission from inside the spacecraft, the crew will give a status report on the mission. >> the flight so far has gone as smooth as it could possibly go. we have every test that we are supposed to do. where upon the line. in the vehicle has been performing beautifully, much better than anyone expected. on the first flight. the systems are out of sha

on all circuits. >> roger. >> contact, houston. >> houston contact. >> roger. let me give you a quick voice check. >> houston. >> the countdown has begun. ignition. ♪♪ ♪♪ after two minutes of flight, the solid rocket boosters burn out and fall away. they are recovered in the atlantic 175 miles down range from pad 39. to be towed ashore and used again for another shuttle flight. the main engines continue to burn. and the external tank now empty is jettisoned to fall into a remote ocean area. space shuttle is in earth's orbit, 150 miles above our planet. [ speaking foreign language ] [ speaking foreign language ] >> the astronauts moving with the rotation of the earth fly into night and into day many times in each orbit. in a 54-hour planet they'll see 36 sunrises and 36 magnificent sunsets as they orbit above the planet earth. looking down on clouds and life below. ♪♪>> good morning. this is -- reentry is one of the most critical moments in the order peter passage and the orbit of 19,000 miles per hour. the shuttle falls into the atmosphere generates

go ahead. >> roger, we got that done. let's see, joe, we have a minute. >> space shuttle will indeed be our work horse in space. with as many as four satellites orbited on one mission, >> engine is good. stand by for the execute. 30 seconds. >> the department of defense will have payloads on the 400 flights scheduled over the next 12 years. ♪♪ >> space is not now an american monopoly. it will be less so as time goes on. we are approaching the point where the world community, and not just a few nations, is interested in space. >> dr. isaac asamof, microbiologist, author and lecturer. >> the space shuttle. >> oh, thank you, thank you. we are entering a new era of construction engineering and architecture. now for the first time in space, we are going to be able to ignore gravity and build structures that will be strong for other reasons than simply passive resistance to gravitational pull. it's going to be a new kind of architecture. we're going to have pre-fabricated structures which we can just move into position and

. >> roger, we copy. >> ok. copy. narrator: historian james a michener in an address to congress said, there are moments in history when challenges occur that such compelling nature, that to miss him is to miss the whole meaning of an epic. space is such a challenge. james: i am james michener. for most of my working years on this planet, i have been chronicling the rise and fall, and if there is one thing i am convinced that, is that enemies do not destroy nations. time and the loss of will brings them down. to see that it does not happen to this nation of ours, the united states cannot retreat from the challenge of our age. narrator: each era of human history progresses to a point at which it is eligible to wrestle with the great problems. the ancient greeks, it was the organization of society. for the medievalists, the spelling of their relationship to god. for the men of the 15th and 16th centuries, the mastery of the ocean, and for us, it is the determination of how mankind can live in harmony on the finite globe

. >> roger, we copy. james: in an address to congress, it was said that their amendments -- there are moments of history that such challenges occur is to miss the whole meaning of an epic. space is such a challenge. >> for most of my working years on this planet, i have been chronicling the rise and fall of human systems. if there is one thing i am convinced of from years of studying this, it is that enemies do not destroy nations, time and the loss of will destroy them. to see that this does not happen to this nation of ours, the united states cannot repeat this in the challenge of our age. in which it is eligible to wrestle with the great problem of that time. for the asian greeks, it was the organization of society. for the medievalists, it was the spelling out of their relationship to god. for us, it is the determination of how mankind can live in harmony on the finite globe we call earth while establishing relationships to an infinite space. i am struck with wonder at the energy being expended by tho

the power of his wit was legendary, some describing him as will rogers. dean at chinson once called him the greatest satirist in the english language since pope and swift. acclaimed novelist james mitchner said he had one of the sharpest wits he had ever known. his admirers included robert frost and william douglas who once cited a column in one of his u.s. supreme court opinions. much like mark twain, james they shaller, dorothy parker and will rogers, art buchwald was truly an american legend. and to his credit, his barbs could get a chuckle out of politicians from all sides of the political spectrum. from william f. buckley, to john f. kennedy to dwight eisenhower to ronald reagan. senator barry gold water from arizona once told buchwald, you are one of those people who have the ability to make us think, make us laugh, make us cry and love our fellow man, and for that, i thank you. but who was art buchwald the man? before talking about his extraordinary life and career, i'd like to play a clip from a radio interview he did in new york city in 1964. thi

so stockdale died early in 1882, -- and bobby roger were two months short of 89. marino was 92. that's how long the lived. which proves that suffering will kill you. if you make you a better person. no one wants to be a better person. suffering won't kill you. these guys lived very fruitful lives. general boyd is maybe -- now, in a fly by he did the missing man pull up by his t34 t34 over the monument, the air base space for a big celebration there. you can imagine being 80 and find your t34 around the country and riding this motorcycle. so our guys have done well. i think that one of the reasons that we did, well when we had great training. two we had great leadership. the rumor a little bit of a select group because they were mostly aircrews and a little bit older. i was the youngest guy in the camp and i got there when i was 20, three just turned 24 rather. the average age was 30 at capture so we were pretty mature group. if we had all been 18 years old we would have stood a chance because you don't have the maturity and resilience. a 18-year-old doesn't as a 30-year-old. tha

well i used to want to be the commissioner of the nfl, but i told roger goodall, i said you, know when i was struggling with the iranians and russians every day, your job looked pretty good. but actually from northern california, doesn't look so good anymore. and these days, and i have to say it, these days being a university professor at stanford university where the stanford cardinal are having quite a special season, you know, come on, you know when those special seasons are light. you've had plenty of them! let us have one. that's really the greatest job in the world. thank you madam secretary. >> thank you very much. c-span.org a c-span's new online store. go there today to order a copy of the congressional directory. a compact spiral bound book with contact information for every member of congress, including bio and committee assignments. also contact information for state governors and the biden administration cabinet. order your copy at c-span.org. every c-span shop purchase help support c-span's nonprofit organization. up next on the presidency. james

well, i used to want to be the commissioner of the nfl, but i told roger goodell, i said, when i was struggling with the iranians and russians every day your job looked pretty good. but, actually, from northern california, it doesn't look so good anymore. and these days -- and i have to say it. these days, being a university professor at stanford university, where the stanford cardinal are having quite a special season, you know -- come on, you know what those special seasons are like. you've had plenty of them. let us have one. that's really the greatest job in the world. >> thank you madam secretary. >> thank you. >> that was fun. [ applause ] >>> weeknights this month we're featuring american history tv programs as a preview of what's available every weekend on cspan3. tonight we took at the cherokee nation. in the 1830s, under president andrew jackson, the cherokees were forcibly removed from their lands in the southeastern u.s. in what became known as the trail of tears. oklahoma university law professor lindsey robertson, discusses the decisions issued by the u.s. supreme court

host: lets let some of our viewers take part in this conversation, roger from new york. good morning. caller: good morning. how are you feeling? nicholas: fine. caller: i have an interesting question. in 1898, the u.s. with teddy roosevelt got rid of the spaniards and mckinley sent the rough riders in and everybody in cuba to get rid of the spaniards. why didn't eisenhower, why didn't kennedy, why didn't they send the u.s. military in. i was reading a thing about the bay of pigs on usa today and most of generals at the time -- most generals at a time, the cia was not supposed to go in and do military operations. the u.s. military, the dod, was supposed to go into cuba to get rid of castro. nicholas: yes. both eisenhower and kennedy were unwilling to commit, at least openly, u.s. military forces to the overthrow of the castro regime. one of the great concerns was to maintain good relations with the rest of latin america. latin america, latin american people, saw that united states as overbearing, they did not like them on the munro doctrine. they did not like to be in ame

roy rogers lived just around the corner from where i lived, and i went by his house every morning to go to work. it was a neat place. high desert, doesn't rain much, a little bit cool in the wintertime, the wind blows a lot. but we were 90 miles from los angeles, maybe an hour and a half, and about two and a half hours over las vegas. i never went to las vegas, but we were right on the main highway that goes on the interstate from los angeles to las vegas. the flying was great. we did everything they did in top gun, plus we did the air to ground, the bombing and all that. so it was a lot of fun. we played some golf along the way, and one of my buddies that i met in our survival school and then became close friends with was a guy named lance slyjohn. we were single together, we met a lot of nice young ladies around and played a lot of golf. we went off to war together, lance did not come back. he's the only air force academy graduate still to be awarded the congressional medal of honor. he was shot down two days after me. he made it 46 days in laos where he was shot down, badly, badly

businesses that rely on travelers to support their operations, as you know, i worked with my friend senator roger wicker to offer the restaurants act which is bipartisan legislation to provide structural relief to local and independent restaurants, and our effort became lost as part of the american rescue plan. soon restaurants will be able to apply for $26 billion of relief. many restaurants received assistance from the paycheck protection program. can you explain how it is different from ppp and how this is different from those funds? >> thank you for the question. i want to thank you all of you for support you have given the industry in passing the ppp, because all of those were critical in getting the industry propped up. but one of the things about your new restaurant revitalization act is that they're going to look at minorities and small businesses and some who may have not been able to apply in the first go-round. i can tell you that we're already hearing great concerns that that money may be gone in a very short order, so we are quite concerned about that. but we -- you know, we represen