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Bolster his plan. as you said, nasa the direction for nasa as dictated by the administration is to abandon nasa as the carrier of astronauts to the space station and beyond and instead to outsource that to private companies, abandon the constellation program, which nasa spent billions of dollars already developing, which is essentially using technology that nasa mastered to get astronauts to the space station and beyond. abandon that and hand that over to private enterprise. the bottom line, it ...

Program, which is building on what nasa already does and knows best, these big, heavy rockets and lifting men and women into space. not just to the moon, but to the space station. because this is critical. we will have no way to get to the space station as of early 2011. the shuttle fleets being retired. you cant extend the life of the shuttle, because theyre too old. so they have already spent all this money to build this new series of rockets called the constellation program. and now the presi...

Price bidding for notes and telegrams said to be from john f. kennedy to a swedish mistress. they sold for $115,000. there is an apparent end to the decades-long dinosaur debate. an international team of sip tises say they have proof positive what ended the age of the reptiles. new geographic evidence shows a six-mile wide steroid slammed into our planet 65 million years ago. scientists say it dramatically altered the planet, changed weather patterns dramatically and killed off the dinosaurs. ...

But it is a great addition to our daily life. it is just an out of this world view. t.j. mentioned a couple and id like to mention africa are or south africa, chile, everything is so beautiful. and would like to share the view with the rest of the world. >> jeff, theres a huge policy debate down here in washington over president obama canceling the constellation program, what do you think of taxis essentially being used to transport iss crews up to the space station? >> well, its really hard to ...

Nasa is reportedly coming up with a plan "b" in order to remain the business of ferrying astronauts to the international space station and beyond. it comes as the white house seeks to cancel plans to build a new generation of spacecraft to replace the space shuttles. only four more shuttle missions are scheduled. and the white house wants to outsource missions to private companies. joining us via skype, veteran space correspondent jay barberie. jay, what does this all mean, that theyre having to...

Take a look at. this it is a grainy black and white image, and this is pretty fascinating stuff. but, you know, you take a look sort of the before and after and see how far we have advanced, wolf, in a relatively short period of time. >> it is high definition right now and one day we will have it in 3-d but the space shuttle program is ending, so when is the last launch? >> well, the u.s. space program is in a moment of transformation, and the space shuttle program is coming to an end this year ...

Florida concern is how soon the space jobs may come because of the thousand of nasa lay offs that are coming and have already begun pay an average of $77,000 a year. the real negative impact to the areas surrounding kennedy space center will be approaching a billion dollars. >> ignition and liftoff of shuttle endeavour. >> mondays spectacular launch of endeavour temporarily allowed the thousands of nasa employees to forget about their far from spectacular future. most like ken tower preparing re...

War critic, critic of the iraq war died at the age of 77. >> liftoff of schultz "endeavour," nasas final space station. >> the shuttle "endeavour" on its way to international space station. predawn liftoff probably the last ever nighttime launch for the program. they should reach the space station on wednesday. they will install a new room and observation deck when they arrive. only four more shuttle missions remain. president obama has proposed a five-year extension of the international space...

Constellation project. we heard president obama talking about his budget and ending the constellation program that called for the return to the moon by 2020. what is your reaction to that? >> well, you know, it was a surprise to the entire program being canceled. and it wasnt in the proposed budget that he leased monday last week. there was some writing on the walls from his independent panel from last year that there would be major changes, but the announcement last week sent a lot of the agenc...

The leader. wildcats happened -- whats happened. in. >> for at least the last three president theres has been an indifference to nasa and the indifference and lack of a goal for the space agency led to the columbia accident seven years ago last week. president bush put a goal for space but didnt support it with funding and that led to delays and increases in the costs of the canceled constellation program. i think the president should have stepped forward with a new management plan for that prog...