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Minutes ago, the space shuttle atlantis touched down for the final time. and with that, the conclusion of what we know of for right now, manned space flight by the united states of america. tom jones, as you look at the space shuttle right there live down at the space place, cape canaveral, going forward, you know, this is the first time in our lives when there hasnt been a mercury or a gemini for an apollo for a space shuttle program but the space shuttle itself was designed back in the 1960s a...

It took us 66 years from the wright brothers to tranquility base on the moon. another base is 2035. its doable and an exciting program and i think it will be a campaign issue. >> uma: could private industry could lead the way on the initiative? >> it will take over where the government paved the way. in the airmail of airplanes gave way to the airlines carrying people place to place. its time for the commercial, the competitiveness, the innovativeness of the commercial industries that we have. t...

Space museum on whose flight deck mercury and gemini modules and flight crews were returned to us after splashdown will get "enterprise." >> nbcs jay gray joins us now from the kennedy space center. jay, its so interesting, we were supposed to talk with the folks at the "intrepid" but new theyre super busy. you have 21 museums and centers who sought these shuttles knowing it will bring in many visitors. >> reporter: nasa had said all along it wanted to spread these spacecraft geographically so a...

Today. theres been 139 space shuttle flights, and 31 flights before that with "mercury," "gemini," "and apollo." so this is flight number 164. and after todays flight, therell be two more. you have "endeavour" and you have "atlantis." and they have to get them in this fiscal year. right now theyre on the schedule for april and for june, but theyre likely to push into the summer. but, yeah, people here are beginning to think, this is it. you know, this is going to happen. its over with. and theyr...

Gemini and apollo. 164 flights down and the nbc cape canaveral bureau has been here, dylan, closing in on them. >> jay, it looks like something -- did the shuttle just release another piece of equipment? >> reporter: no, no. what you had a while ago was the boosters that were releasing away. and you can see different things that are falling off now. ice and whatnot, which doesnt matter because theyre not in enough atmosphere to do any damage, like what happened on "columbia" when they knocked a ...

>> reporter: the astronomer instructor who started it all says hes surprised with the seismic rumble he started. >> on the postivie side, i had one beautiful woman ask me for my autograph. >> reporter: maybe if he would have read his horoscope, he would have seen this coming. im jeremy hubbard in new york. >> still a gemini. i dont care what they say. coming up, we start a brand new series on "world news now." >> rob is stepping out into a new job where hes still not getting d d d d d d d d d ...

Status? single. orientation? straight. hometown? hawaii. body type? 5 11", average. zodiac? gemini. this is a man who said children are parasites and we do not need anymore. so, the truth is what we are dealing with here if this fits together properly is r5eñ a bunch of crazy and sad on many levels and frightening. and now, coordinating producer for discovery channel. what a weird day. do you remember the protests? were you around for these? (inaudible)

Looking at a clip for watching "law and order." lets go -- blah, blah. >> so i see this episode for "law and order" and i click on the thing. you know when you have a dvr you can see the description of the "law and order" episode you are watching. why am i explaining this to you? you know what i mean. will you show the picture of what i -- i took a picture of it. take a look. check this out. "law and order" you can see episode there, gemini, the detectives suspect a murderer is a racist. wouldnt...

Kennedy space center in florida. >> table nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before the decade is out of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. >> reporter: to the moon we went, as j.f.k. promised, not because it was easy, but because it was hard. now the space program that gave us mercury, apollo, gemini is at a crossroads. shuttle program is coming to a close. follow on constellation program that was supposed to take to us the moon and mars canceled. so...

Sided. he adds -- > we have going to be a 30 rate nation. >> looked alt like him. >> he was pretty cool. >> it is like speed racer. >> by abandoning space shuttle service we miss out on crud like this. >> see, it is fun. it is like france without the french people. ron, i bet you agree with the president. >> 1,000%. >> no such number. >> it is batting averages. first day in april. look, if you are a conservative and you dont want to waste morning, it is a booneoggle. learn about the gemini and a...