Nighttime Shuttle Launch News Today

Exacerbated. im not giving up on being able to find, you know, help our contractor family members find ways they can transition their people to other jobs. >> reporter: so it is really, don, tough times now for nasa, facing the end of the shuttle program, no constellation program, not likely, anyway, unless congress steps in. so it is going to be an interesting year in the space program. >> tough time for a lot of folks and now feeling it at nasa. john zarrella, thank you very much. it is all be...

Program. while you were asleep, the space agency plans to send up the "endeavor," the first of five missions this year before the fleet is retired. john zarrella is stand by live this is also the last nighttime shuttle launch, the end of an era. >> reporter: yeah, it really is. bittersweet here, the last nighttime launch, nine hours from now, don. and "endeavor" will be heading on a 13-day mission, it is behind me on launchpad 39a, the fueling of the giant external tank has begun. 4:39 eastern t...