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That is what we are going to do. >> sean: a broken promise that wont be foregotten any time soon. >> sean: joining me are two of the former united space alliance employees, terry white and tony dees. welcome to the program. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> sean: the president talked about we are going to grow the economy and protect jobs and continue supporting nasa and continue funding the success of the shuttle program. did he do that? >> no, he did not. we knew the shuttle was en...

Do. >> sean: a broken promise that wont be foregotten any time soon. >> sean: joining me are two of the former united space alliance employees, terry white and tony dees. welcome to the program. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> sean: the president talked about we are going to grow the economy and protect jobs and continue supporting nasa and continue funding the success of the shuttle program. did he do that? >> no, he did not. we knew the shuttle was ending but constellation was su...

43 passengers kept on board a plane for more than three hours. the cause, a bug bite. "newsroom" begins right now. good morning to you. im carol costello. you are bere its final flight. the granddaddy of a program. it was the next wave of a space race that had americans holding their breath. a craft so futuristic and exciting president ford told nasa to name it after captain kirks ship from the legendary show "star trek." >> space, the final frontier. these are the voyages of the sta...

there in florida? >> yep. im here in florida, yep. >> this is your beat for many, many years as you watch this, as youre kind of going over in your head how many times you have you have interviewed the crews, whens going through your mind? what are you thinking about as we start to watch the craft land? >> you know, i think like so many people here think and of course, you know, my opinion is certainly somewhat skewed that, you know, it had a lot of flights left in them. all of the veh...

officials say nothing suggests an attack is imminent. they only say recent incidents reinforce the terror threat. and hope for a grand debt fix was dimmed just a bit in washington. some democrats and republicans are picking apart the latest plan with the same old complaints. liberals say it cuts social security and medicare. conservatives say it raises taxes. republicans have refused to raise the nations debt limit without deep spending cuts and no tax increases. the deadline now is ...

the crisis, by drought, poverty and violence. half of the camps are fled to ethiopia and kenya. a man who was accused of strangling a woman, has been sent to prison. her killer went to extraordinary lengths to avoid arrest for more than two years, altering his face through cosmetic surgery. the space shuttle "atlantis" is about two hours from landing at the kennedy space station. the crew will fire the engines to re-enter the atmosphere and end americas 30-year shuttle program. tho...

There is a lot of ill feeling toward the president in the central florida and orlando area, the kennedy space center area, because of the fact that he did cut the moon program, he cut the constellation program that president bush had and he is talking about reaching an asteroid or mars in 2030 which given the fact that if he win as second term he would be gone by 2016 seems a reach and he is talking about commercial space projects in the intervening years. interestingly, congresswoman gabrielle ...

Insists constellation was not a waste of money. >> the constellation program has taught us the things that work, the things that we could have done better. >> reporter: ironically, the flap comes at a time nasa says it may not have enough money to building a new, bigger rocket congress and the white house have mandated to replace, you guessed it, the constellation program. senators hutchison of texas and nelson of florida have introduced a bill that would allow nasa to stop paying for the aries ...

Im in front of spacex, a private rocket company that nasa is doing business with but says its hands are tied because congress is forcing it to pay bills for the canceled programs. if you look at the rocket launch from 2009 that, was part of the $12 billion constellation program that president obama canceled. but congress in the 2010 budget told nasa it had to keep paying all the contracts in that thing until there is a new budget in 2011 which we still dont have. nasa says by the end of march, i...

>> listen, nasa has been stripped to the bone. theyve killed the shuttle program. we knew about that. but theyve killed the constellation program, we werent expecting that. we have to pay the russians a kings ransom to get into the space station now. we have to borrow it from lebron james, see if hes open to it and now all of a sudden, you have to wonder if theyre going to back away fra this statement. theyre not. heres what theyre saying. administrator understands that the core mission is scien...