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Paul krugman. then, the race for space. is america losing? china is building its own space station and the u.s. has to rely on russia to send our astronauts up to the stars. what is going on? and the exploding middle class. in more than seven years it will triple in size to almost 2 billion people. it will change the world. well talk about how. but, first, heres my take. those of you who follow the show reg lerly know i have long argued that cutting government spending in the midst of a weak...

Nobody said i want to carry that in my pocket. when you launch something into space, electronics of any kind, weight matters because its very expensive to put every incremental ounce if you dont have to put it there to launch into orbit. the miniaturization of electronics got a jolt of interest by the early space age. and then once you see that its miniaturized, all of a sudden a whole new world of consumer electronics opens up that was unimagined and undreamt of before. by the way, the urge to ...

For office. it may say spring on the calend calendar, but someone must have forgotten to tell mother nature. parts of eight states under winter warm warnings. whiteout conditions in colorado prompted authorities to close more than 150 miles of interstate 70 yesterday. those are your top stories. now, back to fareed zakaria "gps." around the world, countries are pouring money into space. russia, china and india are all advancing their space programs, but here in the united states, the opposit...

Common sense gun laws. you can be both. thats what we need right now. i, as a career prosecutor, have personally seen cases of police officers and innocent babies being killed by assault weapons. there is no reasonable basis for having those in our streets. i applaud senator klein. >> seeing the same sorts of urgeance we see in places like maryland and moving forward on gun control. the legislative politics on this are very different. the structure of the senate, two senators per state magnifyin...

Derek pitts breaks down the new report on life from deep space. all stations come over to mission a for a final go. this is for real this time. step seven point two one two. verify and lock.

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The price tag on the initial price tag is around 150 million euros, or $200 million. >> this is the start of an extended cooperation and of course, we can imagine that in the further path, we can expand on that. >> reporter: this is proof that the exploration of deep space is becoming an international endeavor. there is still much uncertainty, though, as to where that might take us. to an asteroid, the dark side of the moon, or mars. but with this vehicle, nasa says we will be able to get there....

Times former shuttle as snow naught for nasa and planetary scientist. what do you think of nasas problems? at this point there are no plans to return humans to space until 2020, is that right, tom? >> americans are renting russian rockets to get to the space station. five years until we get american rockets from florida to go to the space station and deep space returning to the moon we were last it there 40 years ago, that will be 2020 or beyond. jon: i remember growing up as a kid astronauts we...

Education. what are the options for nasa to make its self irrelevant amid this fight that were seeing in washington. >> a lot of things that nasa is doing is not as visible either. so people have the impression that nothing is going on. the problem of having a more diffuse set of goals is that its harder to keep the team focused and the public will focused on it. that seems to require more care and feeding. in terms of the technology, developing capabilities to send people beyond the earth orbit...