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Station. megyn: its $450 million permission its a pricey process to go through. but, boy be just an you a-inspiring one. congrats to you and nasa on a beautiful launch. tom jones, thank you. megyn: we have other headlines to bring you go. president obama promising to cut the cozy relationship between federal regulators on the oil industry. he says it contributed to the oil spill in the gulf of mexico. hamid karzai condemning an overnight nato raid that allegedly killed nine civilians. prosecutor...

History 25 years ago with its very first launch into space. today history will be made again right before your very eyes. the final launch of this shuttle is less than an hour away. it is the one trillion dollar trip to the doctors office, a fight breaks out over new warnings on the growing bill for the healthcare overhaul. we will crunch the numbers when we come back. >> add it all up and the plan im proposing will cost around $900 billion. >> it reduces the deficit, meets president obamas call...

Cocoa beach cape canaveral area, there is big excitement around this central florida area today because this is a final launch. 30-second launch for atlantis. its an all male crew. no rookies onboard. it will be a busy flight up in space. the good news, you heard applause when they heard that mission management decided this is not going to precliewtd attempt to launch. megyn: stands by as we a -- stand by as we await launch. we have astronaut tom jones in connection with this launch. i want to a...

Find a loose ball bearing in the payload of the shuttle. >> true. one of my flights a half-inch long machine screw floated into the gears and we couldnt do around space walks because this errant screw can knock out a mission goal. it sounds like they cleared it. megyn: how does that happen? the crew is strapped in ready to go. they are sitting there and somebody says, there is a loose ball bearing? >> when it did turn up they have some track down its source and clear the safety implications. it ...

This was not seen as an issue that would delay the launch, but they are debating whether they think this is more serious or a ball bearing that came out of this camera or a small ball bearing found by one of their team members which go over the shuttle stack in and around the launch pad prior to every launch. at this moment. its hard to overhear what they are saying as to what they are going to do. the mission management teams recommendation is we continue with the green light heading towards th...

Ken abu hamza al-muhajer and his five crew members preparing for blast -- ken ham preparing for blast off. 2:20 eastern time. this is the very last flight for the shuttle atlantis as nasa winds down -ts manned space program. atlantis has blasted off into space more than 30 times. the crowds down there at record levels to watch this thing, and the weather so far is said to be cooperating for the launch. you will see it happen right here, live next hour. we begin this hour with brand-new developme...