Ali Velci, I always watch your show when you're before me, when you're after me.

And I was just absolutely glued to the screen.

For people who love you and watch you all the time, you were like the Renaissance man of MS now,

who knows a lot of things about a lot of things.

But you just gracefully led us through what was a really historic moment that I feel like brought the country, hopefully, together and watch something truly remarkable happen.

May we all just be space geeks tonight? You know, that's the beauty of it.

I'm an aspiring space geek. I think you're already a space geek. You've been watching this so closely. Tell us a little bit about over the next hour. We'll be watching it as well. What are we waiting for? What's next? And what are the things that could happen over the next hour here? Well, it was, they called it a bullseye splashdown. They came down right where they were supposed to. The conditions were perfect. The conditions in the water, the waves were perfect. And then the funniest thing happened, the simple radio communications

broke down. So it wasn't, the mission control could speak to the astronauts, and mission control

could speak to the naval rescuers, but the Navy rescuers couldn't speak to the astronauts. So they

literally said things like, are you hitting your push-to-talk

button? You know, kind of like in the old days when IT would tell you to reboot the computer.

And the mission controller, Reed Weissman, the commander, is a, you know, he's an Air Force test

pilot. So that delayed them a little bit. But what you're about to see now is something called the front porch. It'll be a raft that comes off of the module. You will see the astronauts emerge. They will then be taken to the John P. Murtha, which is about 3,000 yards away. It's a boat. They're going to spend the night there. Then they're going to be taken back to the mainland and debrief and the future begins.

Reed Weissman, he's somebody you just mentioned. I think we've all kind of fallen for Reed Weissman.

And his story, he lost his wife to cancer just a few years ago. She encouraged him to stay living

where he was living so he could continue to pursue

his passion. He's been raising two daughters himself. It's an incredible story. And they dedicated

a crater on the moon. Am I getting that right to him? That's right. During this mission.

To her. Yeah. He named after his late wife Carol. And the thing we'll all remember is his late wife Carol spelled it with two L, C-A-R-O-L.

He will, as is always the case on a military mission, you're familiar with this.

As the commander of the vessel, he will be the last two emerge.

So you will see the other two American astronauts and the Canadian astronaut emerge, and then you will see Reed Weissman emerge. And this is the first time in more than 50 years that Americans have

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