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Program has been phenomenal if you think where it has come from for the last 30 years. its a beautiful sight. it reminds us what people can do when they have challenges. all the people that supported the shuttle over the years, thousands of people that made this possible really put a lot into this program. its a real, you know indication of american ingenuity if you will and its, it is bittersweet. beautiful to see this amazing thing that we have in the space shuttles but of course its sad that ...

>> its obviously really nice that, for example, discovery went into the smithsonian last week. i was there for that event. we now have enterprise going into new york. a lot of people are getting to see the shuttles. the problem we have is that we were going to retire the shuttles, and we had a replacement program, which was the constellation program to go on to the moon and mars and astroids and beyond. and unfortunately the administration canceled the follow-on program. when i met with people a...