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That slammed into the northeastern coast 6:australia. >> yasi. >> yes, this has been the flooded area. >> going on forever up here. its really been getting rain. >> now they get a category 5 hurricane. why did it not have the devastating effect that katrina had here in the united states? was it less populated areas? >> it was less populated. it looked like it was spinning the wrong way. it is spinning the wrong way for us. but that was from back down south. we have pictures from tully. i might s...

Most people want to know at home is that we started with a little pod back in the day. you remember the guys would get out of the pod. start with the big rocket. and then they would get out of the pod when they returned in the ocean. then we had the space shuttle. what type of vehicle are we looking at? what might it look like this next thing to take us into space? >> okay. well, what we need is a vehicle with more volume, frankly. and we need a propulsion system to get us to these destinations ...

Advance human flight, human presence beyond the orbit. the in the ways that we need to do that involve some new technology, some new approaches, some new spacecraft and systems to carry us below earth, out into deep space where theres some amazing scientific and discovery kind of challenges awaiting. unfortunately the shuttle is not the vehicle to do that. while the shuttle is an amazing technological marvel and while i am amazed as i walk around here at the kennedy space center at the engineeri...

>> by 2025, we expect new spacecraft to allow us to begin first ever crude mission beyond the moon in deep space. we will start sending the astronauts to an asteroid for the first time in history. >> brian: asteroid with date estimated for 2025. this could be the first step for mission to the moons of mars, eventually on to mars and perhaps have ramifications on this planet as well. we have bill ny, the science guy, who was at the event. i was there as well covering it for the fox news channel. ...

Critics. the president said he was 100% committed to the mission of nasa and its future. >> some have had harsh words for the decisions weve made, including some individuals who ive got enormous respect and admiration for. the bottom line is nobody is more committed to manned space flight, to human exploration of space than i am. but weve got to do it in a smart way. and by 2025 we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first ever crewed missions into deep spac...

For flight right here in this room. [ applause ] next, we will invest more than $3 billion to conduct research on an advanced heavy lift rocket, a vehicle to efficiently send into orbit the crew capsules, propulsion systems, and large quantities of supplies needed to reach deep space. and developing this new vehicle, we will not only look at revising or modifying older models, we want to look at new designs, new materials, new technologies that will transform not just where we can go but what we...

Defending it. pitting oddly the second man to walk on the moon against the first man to walk on the moon. derrick pitts joins me in a moment. responding to the plans to deep six missions to deep space, apollo commanders writing in this letter, as you see, without the skill and experience that actual spacecraft operation provides, the usa is far too likely to be on a longdown hill slide to mediocrity. a second group of nasa veterans is sending a separate letter to the white house, the white house...

Get involved with this personally will go elsewhere, and well also lose by retirements and shift ising jobs all the current people laid off. so these people, this team is going to be irreplaceable and probably cost us triple the expense of putting it back together in five years when we do, if we do, decide to go into deep space. heres where i think the president should be more aggressive about continuing nasas space operations, keeping this team together, finding a back-up plan to the commercial...

First man to walk on the moon. derrick pitts joins me in a moment. responding to the obama administrations plans to deep six missions to deep space, apollo commanders writing in this letter, as you see, without the skill and experience that actual spacecraft operation provides, the usa is far too likely to be on a long downhill slide to mediocrity. a second group of nasa veterans is sending a separate letter to the white house expressing its disappointment with the plan the white house respondin...

When we do. so i believe its more important to ramp up our capabilities to reach and operate at a series of increasingly demanding targets. while advancing our technological capabilities with each step forward. and thats what this strategy does. >> well i guess the big question is, are we still the great space pioneers we were under kennedy? kennedy launched us to the mooned a we got there under nixon. we loved it. are we still going to be the leaders in space 10, 20 years from now, senator nels...