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of space shuttles. stay tuned. lit take as you little while. we are still working on it but keep watching. we will be launching again. >> we will stay in the business, as they said, the united states is not out space business. >> absolutely. we have proven for 30 years that we know how to get to lower orbit. we built this fantastic international space station. lit keep operating at least through 2020, conducting research in this incredible laboratory with the micro gravity environment ...

nfl season after four-month labor lockout between players and owners, well, a key vote could break the stalemate. and were also learning this. tiger woods fires his long time caddie steve williams and guess what? he speaks out about the abrupt move. we will hear from the caddie in just five minutes. millions of pro football fans are hoping today, well, that it will be the day the nfls labor lockout will end. players and owners expected to vote on a deal that will hopefully say the 20...

>> now, the plan does not address the debt ceiling. you see the debt clock there. it ticks down to august 2nd. thats when the u.s. could start defaulting on some of its bills. it could be a jumping-off point for a bigger deal. here are some of the highlights of the plan according to cnn senate forces, it shaves about $4 trillion off the debt load. rejiggers the tax load, cuts short-term spending by about $500 billion. it changes the entire budgeting process and it reforms social securi...

murdochs protege rebekah brooks to show up tomorrow to answer questions. despite her arrest over the weekend, her spokesman says she will be there. shes denying she knew her reporters hacked phones for scoops while she was the newspapers editor. rupert murdoch, chairman of news corp, and his son james are expected to testify alongside brooks tomorrow. they will appear before parliaments media committee. a heatwave hitting the middle of u.s. extremely high humidity makes it feel as ho...

japan should have taken the threat of the tsunami more seriously. >> a european food crisis as scientists look for the source of a deadly infection. there is anger in spain as vegetable exports are turned away. and the final endeavor. the space shuttles last mission. were live at the kennedy space center in florida. fifa is poised to re-elect set blater as president, the most controversial leadership vote in footballs governing body. fifa ignored calls to postpone the ballot. princ...

Picture with "atlantis." >> this is the last flight rollout. the next time theyll roll out it will be to go to a museum. >> reporter: has worked on the shuttle program before the orbiters ever flew, testing engines, or as he says, blowing things up. he says he never got used to seeing the orbiters every day. what will be hard is not seeing them. >> you look at some of the detail on it, man, its amazing. its absolutely amazing. >> reporter: only a handful of workers walked with the final space sh...

Finished all they do there. the tanks thats going to fly on "atlantis" was actually manufactured before and they did a switch and any way. it flew pretty well. worked fine. >> those guys are really unsung heroes. those guys literally stayed with that tank throughout the storm and that was the only places in the city that was dry. >> another piece of historys going to happen here tomorrow morning, 8:00 a.m. shuttle "atlantis" that you flew on twice is going to roll from the orbiter processing fac...

Know, nasa put up a curtain all around that area so that you really cant see anything over there. any camera men or women with long lenses wouldnt be able to get a shot her of the other families up there. mike and i were just talking, you just had separation from the external tank, so literally, theyre in space. >> theyre on their own. gotten rid of the motors, just the orbiter for the next 16 days. >> that tank has an interesting history, right? >> that thing goes back aways. the one that survi...

lets listen in. >> all three are still in good shape as are all of the other sims aboard the orbiter. a team of flight controllers watches over all the systems. 4:20 into the flight. "endeavours" traveling 5500 miles per hour. altitude 63 miles traveling downrange, about 335 feet in altitude. environmental and control systems officer here reporting a good flash evaporator system reporting cooling to equipment aboard the vehicle. traveling into space on the forward flight deck is mark k...

Made a unprecedented u-turn right around where we are headed back just three miles away from the shuttle. >> shepard: we dont know whether congresswoman gabriel giffords will be able to stay there or return or whatever? >> she could if she wanted to but her office says that is still to be determined. we do know that she met 10 minutes with president obama this afternoon with the congresswoman her husband mark kelly and mother and brother kellys twin brother. they did release a short statement he...