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>> reporter: i talked to tony hayward, the ceo of bp, and he told me that he compares this disaster to apollo 1. its never happened before to them. trying feats never tried before. theres no guarantee of success. here we are over two weeks after the disaster originally happened. so the natural question was -- whats your plan b? >> do you have something ready to go just in case this fails? >> well, the ready to go is, of course, containing the spill to the maximum extent possible and then a furth...

Have main engine start, four, three, two, one and liftoff, liftoff of the 25th space shuttle mission and it has cleared the tower. >> but we also remember the dangers and sacrifices. apollo 1, the challenger and columbia. president obama unveils the next step. a new focus later this afternoon. we want to talk more about nasas future and the past. in dallas, maryanne webber. she flew two shuttle missions and shes in arlington, vermont. space historian and journalist. roger hannaberg. lets go ahea...

Downrange. >> and we also remember the dangers and the sacrifices apollo 1, the "challenger" and "columbia." those are all memories burned into our collective memories. the pages of nasas past. today, president obama unveils the future and the new focus. a lot of people wondering where it fits in. cnns john zarrella is there live. president obama will be there to talk about the future of the space program. and theres been a lot of criticism. >> reporter: yeah, there sure has, kyra. what youre sa...

But they will have the ability to get a great deal of forensic evidence what may have physically what happened to the airplane by looking at how the structureed tore or came apart. to see if there was any fire damage. to see if there was any damage that happened to the aircraft before impact. all traffic investigators are trained to do that with ferrous and non-ferrous met it is as well as electrical wiring as well. the accident reminds me of problems we had and issues with the apollo 1 bad fire...

Astronaut, not a cosmonaut, would be the first to fly around the moon. >> it was one of the big gambles that nasa at the direction of the president took in order to establish that america was better than the soviet union. >> a big gamble indeed. and for all, it was less than two years before that apollo 1 demonstrated just how complex every mission was. nobody knew that better than frank hormen, the point man in the apollo investigation. nasa tapped him to man the latest mission. >> i was called...

Economically inclusive, instead we have this. >> lawrence odonnell digs into the most compelling stories of the day. "the last word" airs weeknights at 8:00 eastern time, only on msnbc, the place for politics. nasa observed its annual day of remembrance yesterday, honoring astronauts who have lost their lives in the pursuit of american space exploration. flags flew at half staff during a wreath laying ceremony at floridas kennedy space center. three astronauts who died at the apollo 1 mission ...

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