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Years more than $272 billion has been raised in private equity money by space companies around the world and india is now hoping to get a bigger chunk of this money now that the government has opened up the government has opened up the space sector for private participation. indias space industry has been credited for its ambitious yet frugal aerospace programmes work spendsjust a fraction aerospace programmes work spends just a fraction of what united states and china spend space research. that...

The success of this mission has also sealed indias ambition to become a major space power. and anticipation is building up for upcoming missions like the one to study the sun and the countrys maiden human space flight programme, which are awaited in the next few months. globally, the space economy and space industry is seeing an exponential rise, with more demand for data from satellite imaging, navigation, and now even space tourism picking up. in just the last ten years, more than $272 billion...

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also mitt romneys preemptive strike on jobs, the republican unveils his plan days before the presidents big speech. this hour political leaders zeroizer zeroing in on issue number one. do any have a plan that will really work? and texas wildfires destroying more than 700 homes in 48 hours. a massive blaze growing closer to the states capital is growing bigger and more destructive every minute. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." ive covered dick cheney for many years as...

A snowy overhang suddenly gave way beneath him. he had been climbing with another hiker at the time of that accident. bill: the white house launching a major blitz across the country, touting the $787 billion stimulus plan that was a year ago today when president obama signed it do law, the white house saying the massive bill helped save the economy from collapse. of the seven # $7 billion, $272 billion has been paid out. $514 billion is still in the kitty. chief economist for the white house re...

Already $272 billion spent. you are looking here, $257 billion left to go to other projects. are there places where lawmakers feel they will get more political bang for that buck? >> reporter: yeah. certainly. thats one reason you are trying to hear policy being merged with these announcements. you have -- lot of clean energy jobs that are being created with stimulus funds. everybody is for the education. education of this country being improved. they talk about teachers, firefighters, public sa...

Taxpayer money on a company from canada? you got to be kidding me. >> theres -- there is a group in new hampshire and they turned away stimulus money because there were so many restrictions attached to some of the things. they did the right thing, clearly this company in colorado didnt figure who they were going to hire to do some of the water work. bad idea. bad idea. >> well, its just people saying hey, isnt anybody paying attention? why are we -- its like the cash for clunkers thing. why are ...

>> sure. >> the obama administration accounting of the recovery act. im giving you the numbers. i did this an hour ago, 595,000 jobs created. 595, 263 jobs created. $272 billion spent, coming to 436,940.88 per job. we immediate nor? first of all the recovery act wasnt attractly a -- directly a job creation bill. >> hold it right there. sir. >> i recall the recovery bill being pitched to us as, if this thing passes it better pass quickly, if we get it passed, we will not go above 8% unemployment....

Taking more money from those who earn it for government to waste. >> reporter: in a "wall street journal" op-ed with the headline "the tax cliff is a growth killer" art laffer wrote, "the united states faces an economic collapse thanks to massive tax increases on january 1 and continue deficit spending for years on end." >> that is about 3-1/3% of the whole u.s. economy. that is something like 20% of all tax revenues. that is a massive tax increase. when you have tax increases like that, that pr...