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bill. its fully paid for. something that the house republicans seem unable to come close -- close to achieving and the h.r. 14 pay fors are less controversial than the pay fors in the house republican bill. its been sfimented -- estimated that this bill will save $1.-- 1.8 million jobs and create up to one million more jobs. during a weak economic recovery, looking for a jumpstart, why arent we passing this bill? why arent we even debating this bill? why are we 10 days away from the ex...

jerry said sce to ox? all with a question marks behind them. we voice this up to the crew. pete conrad in the voice tapes that we got after the mission on-board is talking to his crew members. he says, sce to ox? what the hell is that? we repeat this statement one more. well al bean -- each one of the crew members in the spacecraft had a portion of the command module that they were responsible for. and down in the fourth switch in on the lower edge of the main display panel is a switch...

with john glenn in "friendship seven." as all the world watched and hoped. with mankinds wonderment about the universe, finding an approach that last toward fulfillment. in the john glenn story. ♪ well look at the future of the u.s. space program tomorrow afternoon on c-span2. starting at 5:30 p.m. eastern with florida senator marco rubio calling for renewed space exploration. at 5:40, ohio senator sherrod brown on the 50th anniversary of john glenn becoming the first american to orb...

three people to look around the room and anybody that they didnt think they needed for the next few hours to send them back to their consoles and get them out of there sew so we could focus on a smaller team. we did a blackboard exercise that quickly listed the majority of the issues that had to be worked and who would work them. john aaron who was the power guy came and said, gene, one of the things we got to do is we got to get powered down immediately. i said, john, ill work on this...

my gut feeling -- and thats all i got -- says dont use the main engine and dont jettison the lunar module. thats all i got is a gut feeling. its based -- i dont know -- in the flight control business, the flight director business, you develop some street smarts, and i think every controller has felt this at some time or another and i talk briefly to lenny and hes got this same feeling. meantime my trajectory people are scared out of their wits that were going to execute this abort, dir...

immediate needs kind of overcome that, overtake that knowledge? >> well, first of all, you got to keep in mind -- okay, as i said the report is submitted to the captain jechbl pgeneral of vice royalty of mexico. so it is those high officials, then it circulates and trickles down to the various independent governors. by the time it gets to the independent governors, they are already besieged and beleaguered. they dont have enough men, they dont have enough money, they dont have enough s...

orange telemetry records were scattered all over. one of the very difficult problems that we faced was that there was no instantaneous data retrieval in those days. it was literally hours from the time we would request a print-out of the telemetry data until we would see them. so the only records that we had to work with were the ones that were in the recorders themselves and a few of the hard copies we could take and make a copy of the television display, a controller was looking at. ...

along the east coast torrential rains. republican candidates prepare take to off the gloves a new poll governor rick perry with a decisive lead over the pack. we will look ahead to that debate where perry and romney go head-to-head for the first time "early" this wednesday morning, september 7th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs a foggy morning in new york city. good morning. im erica hill. >> im chris wragge. >> rub thing e fog out of your . police dont know why a man opened fire ...

were making calls and if we get someone on the line, well have it live on cnn. i want to move to texas where firefighters are struggling to control dozens of wildfires burning all across that state. two people have been killed, 700 homes destroyed and thousands of acres scorched since last week. this is the worst fire season in all of texas history. although wind speeds, they are down today, that should help somewhat. the firefighters battle gain the upper hand over all these differe...