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Space. we then went almost six years without an american going into space at all from 1975 to 1981. transition from one program is always difficult. i was hoping that it was going to be a little smoother as we knew in 2004 we enter ad program called vision for space exploration and they acknowledged that the shuttle would be terminated in 2010 or 2011. that is over seven years to come up with a substitute. unfortunately we didnt do that. now were hopefully spurring on the commercial sector to co...

Jenna: it is interesting this week, the timing of it all, you mentioned youve had an eventful life. i would say that probably a bit of an understatement, buzz, well leave it as the way you describe it, out of respect for you. this week well see the final flight back to earth from endeavor. thats going to close a chapter of our history as we move towards the end of our nasa program. your thoughts on that? also, im curious of whether or not you see any sort of effect on the military, without havin...

>> well, ive had a very eventful life you might say that spans teenager during the world war ii, the greatest generation. my father participated in parts of that and then at the military academy i graduated in time to be a part of the closing months of the korean war. it was a good start to my career as a 23-year-old second lieutenant to be indoctrinated into combat. i carried on from there into a tour of duty in germany with f-100s on alert with nuclear weapons. and then i had the great honor o...

It took us 66 years from the wright brothers to tranquility base on the moon. another base is 2035. its doable and an exciting program and i think it will be a campaign issue. >> uma: could private industry could lead the way on the initiative? >> it will take over where the government paved the way. in the airmail of airplanes gave way to the airlines carrying people place to place. its time for the commercial, the competitiveness, the innovativeness of the commercial industries that we have. t...

Instead, were cutting the budgets and not learning the lessons and were not committed. megyn: the challenger happened in 86. columbia, 03. theres the argument that its too dangerous and too expensive and we cannot throw billions at a program to have this loss of life and loss of money. your thoughts in response to that? >> well, megyn, first of all, when people use the cost argument, you have to put it in perspective. sure, its expensive and lives are precious. people like myselves and others ta...

Astronauts. we knew that the russians had cosmonauts that would follow like the dog. i think we expected that the mercury program would set the pace and would lead toward the apollo program but we were smart enough to fill the gap with the gemini program and that gave me through being in the right place at the right time an opportunity to fly on gemini 12. so i think, we, sort of lagged behind but it was gemini 10, 11 and 12 that caught up. but then of course we were set behind again he about th...

Any around the moon and back by a soviet soyuz, we certainly gained momentum. now we didnt actually follow the apollo program with a very enlightened program of catching up to where we had leaped ahead. and ive got a lot to say about mistakes that were made in designing a two-stage, fully reusable after apollo. we became a jobs program at nasa. how can you find enough jobs to spread around to enough politicians so that we can get votes for the space program. short term versus long term gains. jo...

Willing to work with republicans in terms of freezes, cuts -- >> what about the entitlements. >> he said we have to go beyond the simple -- >> he said that last year and the year before. >> a minute ago you said he didnt say it. he did say it. >> he said nothing specific. >> there was one paragraph. >> i was also struck by the line, we do big things. what was so ironic about the speech and what was wrong with it, the content entirely undermined that. he said we do big things. all he recommended ...

Willing to work with republicans in terms of freezes, cuts -- >> what about the entitlements. >> he said we have to go beyond the simple -- >> he said that last year and the year before. >> a minute ago you said he didnt say it. he did say it. >> he said nothing specific. >> there was one paragraph. >> i was also struck by the line, we do big things. what was so ironic about the speech and what was wrong with it, the content entirely undermined that. he said we do big things. all he recommended ...

Willing to work with republicans in terms of freezes and cuts -- >> what about the entitlements? >> and he said, we have to go beyond -- >> he said that last year and the year before. >> he did say it. >> he is saying it. he said nothing specific about it. >> nothing serious about. >> it there was one paragraph. look, i was also struck by the line, "we do big things." but what was so ironic, the content of the speech entirely undermine thatched he said, we do big things. all he recommended, in t...