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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...

and jason carroll is out watching in new york. jason, why dont we start with you. what have you been able to see, feel, hear? give us an understanding of the landscape. >> reporter: what do i hear now? i think its the staples singers singing "ill take you there." i think thats what they are playing now. and the shuttle took a lot of astronauts to a lot of different places. but the "enterprise" never made it to space. but still exciting nonetheless. exciting for the hundreds of invited ...

Has one called the ct 100. orion will fly in late 2013 or early 2014 and it will go out 5,000 miles and come back in at 25,000 miles per hour to simulate a return from deep space. but right now thats the shuttle at its new home towed over there. i dont know how long it will take them but it wont be too long and it will be at its permanent roost. the smithsonian air and space museum. >> we can see people out there on the field to welcome discovery to town. going to be making its way to its new ho...

Brevard. what makes brevard different than detroit? >> the skilled highly technical workers that you had on the space coast, centered around the kennedy space center are an irreplaceable talented pool. if you wish to restart the space program or restart our human space flight program, accelerate it the people are not there as a resource. and weve wasted a major national investment over the last 30 years by not following up the retirement of the shuttle with a more ambitious successor program out...

Absorb these workers, so that the talent pool would not be lost. why hasnt the private sector been able to keep up with some of these job losses? >> two quick reasons. first of all the commercial launch to the space station that nass ace funding right now trying to get off the ground, its still five years away. it was always designed to save some of the nasa funds by having a much leaner workforce, and because that routine commercial abscess to the space station would only be two flights per yea...

Exploration one of those mars recovery missions relaying missions images back to earth those are scouting missions for potential humans going to mars. both are in jeopardy. >> its not an easy job to reach mars, if you dont practice doing it regularly, you cannot do it. >> the mars curiosity, our third rover for the planet mars is actually on the way to the red planet right now, shep. >> shepard: we still have like billions of dollars to explore deep space, right? >> yeah. no deep six for deep de...

controversy dogging president obama. did top aides, including the vice president joe biden warn him about it beforehand? new information coming in. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." our national political correspondent jim acosta is following it for us. >> reporter: it sounded like he was referring to mitt romney as mr. burns, the villain from "the simpsons" who once said release the hounds. thats because in the race for the alpha dog, the fangs are out. rick santorum...

Concerned wondering what we would do without the political advice. >> this is a guy who is also a spokesman from apple, the most successful company in the world. >> because of venture capital and private equity. >> and because steve jobs fired people. >> a lot of people. he got rid of so many jobs it is ridiculous. steve jobs -- oh, i see. remember when we had magazines and newspapers? thanks, steve jobs forgetting rid of jobs. >> how do you fire justin long? >> i dont care. i didnt even know wh...

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More regulations. what we need is jobs in this country, not regulations that make no sense that will stifle the economy. martha: all right. senator shelby, thank you very much. >> thank you. martha: for talking to us today. it is an important issue and the president will be speaking about quite a bit in the coming days and today in kansas as well. glad to hear your side of it thank y very much. bill: well see how that goes. watching wall street and what is happening overseas to see how that affe...