Tuesday, June 6, 2008

With today's contests in South Dakota and Montana , the curtain comes down on the presidential primary season. We'll revisit some of the memorable moments from this long campaign with Julian E. Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School.

Two space shuttle Discovery astronauts are on a 6 1/2 hour space walk to prep the Japanese space lab, Kibo, for installation onto the International Space Station. The Kibo, meaning hope in Japanese, is a $1 billion science lab that contains facilities to conduct experiments on space medicine, biology, materials production, biotechnology and communications. Our guest is Pat Duggins, NPR Space Reporter and author of "Final Countdown - NASA and the End of the Space Shuttle Program."

On January 9th, 2006 an Iraqi family was travelling from their home in Mosul to Baghdad for a holiday, when for a still unknown reason, U.S. soldiers fired on the family van. The father, Sabah, was shot and when the