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This new laser technology, 3.5 seconds. america has cut space spending again and again and again. can this or any other innovation spark excitement again? joining me now is matt abrahamson. thank you so much for joining us, this is very cool. >> yes, it is. good morning. last night we transmitted a high definition video from the space station down to the ground on a laser beam. were very excited about that. >> what can this practically achieve for nasa? >> this is going to open up the solar syst...

Pieces. there lies the issue for those who arent regular marijuana users which she clearly was not. today a memorial service will be held at temple university for philadelphia inquirer co-owner lewis katz. katz and six others died saturday night when his private jet crashed. among the speakers, bill clinton, ed rendell, cory booker, bill cosby. it took nine years for nasa to create the most comprehensive and colorful photograph of deep space yet. you have to see this. this one image contains...

Put on special clothing. thats because a lot of our technology is made there. but there are no aliens there. >> you have to stop an hour away and put on special clothing. thats leak going to his bedroom. if the aliens come to earth to invade it could be the only thing to unite humanity. >> think about all the differences among people on earth would seem small if we felt threatened by a space invader. >> youre right. >> everybody gets together and makes nice. >> you and bill oreilly would be hidi...

Mercury, gemini, apollo, and the men who rode those rockets, wonder. >> the leadership we turned around and given back to the same people. >> we have out-sourced all the space technology to the russians. theyre the ones putting our people up in space. >> they say there are no flags in space, that is a good thing because a big one is now missing in space. it is as if we have gone from rock stars to relics, faster than you can say super nova. and the only indication that our grand kids will have i...

Go to the moon within the decade. without his leadership that would not have happened. we have a president in office now who cancelled the follow-on program we would have had after the shuttle, the shuttle was too dangerous. we could have easily re-created a program which was called constellation, which was like apollo and would have gotten us back into space and given us a position to make ultimately a base on the moon or mars. we now have nothing, obama talked about capturing on astronauts, pi...

As a cold war ploy gesture, but also because kennedy wanted to demonstrate that the so-called lethargy of the past years was put aside, and youth and vigor was at hand. that said, it is not close to where science is interesting anymore. were building wonderful telescopes. and we have rovers on mars, it is not quite fair to say were out of the space business or out of that frontier. >> joe? >> i agree with george, i think look -- >> are you surprised? >> yeah. >> i think i am. we didnt abandon o-...

It is an exciting thing for everybody even if you were not alive when it happened. on the one hand i understand president obamas concern about the shuttle program, were talking hundreds of millions of dollars at a time when we dont have a lot of money. but it also would be nice to find a way to stay somewhat competitive, maybe not as much as we used to. when hopefully the country is back on track, be able to invest in it. >> frankly, private enterprise is looking into space more and more. >> geo...

Jet to confirm we had given up on space. >> it is almost as if we are not challenging ourselves to reach for the stars. >> how had it come to this? some 50 years after this. >> we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy but because they are hard. >> and kennedys goal was to put a man on the moon before the decade was out. but for jfk, it was not just about conquering the space, it was about conquering the russians, a cold war played out in space....

To fill the void. russia, china, india and japan, all throttle up as we wound down. the country that conquered space, now hitching rides into space. and leaving it to unmanned vehicles to do all the exploring on mars, past jupiter and saturn, and passing the outer reaches of the solar system itself. but the last man to walk on the moon said something was missing. >> what would a human being -- what would that difference be? >> because we can think in realtime. for the most part, the computer is ...

Economic situation now without cutting the defense budget. cutting the space budget. i think until we can get the economic house in order were not going to be able to be the great nation as we were in the past >> decline is a choice, not a condition. there is a aassumption were in decline because year overstretched of we have the strongest economy in the world and most energy in the world we cant, i mean, energy in the population energy but that, we can exploit were in a position to really flour...