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Well take a little bit of time to dismount this plane because it take a little time to get it up on the 747. it is really remarkable to see what attaches it to the 747. you would imagine it would be more than that. obviously didnt go anywhere throughout the flight. jon: i am always amazed at the engineering, when you think about it, we went from the mercury and gemini and apollo programs with a cone-shaped capsule on top of those big atlas rockets, well in the case of the apollo program it was t...

Stays on the run way it looks precarious, unnatural. and it looks huge. so i think that was the reaction. i didnt see any cheering. talking to people, though in advance of its arrival here you do sense melancholy that were proud, despite the losses of two space shuttles, we are proud of the program, what it accomplished, again, it was, you know, i think in many senses the last hooray of americas mans program, the gemini program, the apollo program, now we are without a space program, hopefully f...

Which did the early testing of the aerodynamic tkpwhraoeding testing fogliding testing for the program will be mated to the 747. on monday it will be flying from dulles your way and there will be similar low fly byes past some of the monuments and sight seeing sights of new york city, including the statue of liberty, thats in store for you on monday. look forward to that. im sure people will be coming out from all over the place to enjoy that. jenna: 149 million miles in the air before retiring....

Ordinarily they fly at an altitude of 15,000 feet and i suspect that there are a lot of people up and down the southeast coast of the united states that got a very good view of it coming up this way. and youll get to see it again in new york on monday when the shuttle enterprise is put on the back of the 747 and heeds up to the sea air and space museum. jenna: that is right. >> reporter: in the hudson. jenna: we cant wait for that. that will be a sight to see as well, just with the citys scape a...

Party! 39 eggs, one of the most famous launch pad could be a chuck e. cheese. what is going on? >>guest: sign of the times. an example is auto industry they knew they had to retomb and come into the 21st century. nasa did not they want did do things as we did on the apollo program. you cannot do that. you cannot use the big heavy launch vehicles and the engineers have lost faith and members of congress have lost faith. we simply do not have a mission because of the direction. >>neil: well, thank...

Lack self confidence, we lack a romantic vision of being an american, we lack experience in american exceptionalism. they dont want to go through the process of change. so we doubled the national institutes of health while balancing the budget. we know how to do these things. if you actually look at my speech in cocoa beach to people from the space coast, its a very sophisticated outline of a very bold, new approach which largely relies on private-sector dollars. >> greta: is it any bolder than ...

Romantic vision of being an american, we lack experience in american exceptionalism. they dont want to go through the process of change. so we doubled the national institutes of health while balancing the budget. we know how to do these things. if you actually look at my speech in cocoa beach to people from the space coast, its a very sophisticated outline of a very bold, new approach which largely relies on private-sector dollars. >> greta: is it any bolder than what jfk thought in 1961, may of...

Fired. and here is newt on friday. >> i wrote a book that talked to young scientists at nasa and developed this model. we have the momentum of excitement in the apollo program that was moving and attracting young people into mat and science, and we had a let emand then it became boring because of bureau rose. >> by the end of the second term. >>alisyn: and not boring his suggestions of the revolutionary idea. and now what sarah palin is doing if her contribution to the campaign. she makes it cle...

Appearance, four astronauts from the apollo program, jim lovell commander of the ill faithed apollo 13 mission along with astronauts, charlie duke the 10th man to walk on the noon, apollo 16, and rusty schweickart who was the first person to test pilot the new lunar module, apollo 9. and gene cernan the last man to watch on the moon. he flew apollo 10 and 17. what an honor for me, the program and fox news to have you all together. thank you so much for being here. jim, let me start with you. you...

Please. >> houston, weve had a problem. >> this is the crew of apollo 13, we send everyone a nice evening. >> we had a pretty large bang. >> there is a bulletin from abc news the apollo 13 spacecraft has had a serious power supply malfunction. at the moment the astronauts are continuing to isolate their trouble. they say the spacecraft is operating on battery power alone. megyn: they were forced to move into the lunar landing module. it was the calculations with commander lovell that you can see...