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Reality we have done it. humans on the moon. and coming home to tell the whole world about it. there would be celebrations, presidential greetings and parades. so many parades. over the years, all the schools, streets, parks, highways named after the astronauts, including just today, nasa renaming kennedy space center operations in honor of one neil armstrong. 45 years. you know it almost makes you forget what happened three years ago. three years this very day, july 21st, 2011. nasas final shut...

43 passengers kept on board a plane for more than three hours. the cause, a bug bite. "newsroom" begins right now. good morning to you. im carol costello. you are bere its final flight. the granddaddy of a program. it was the next wave of a space race that had americans holding their breath. a craft so futuristic and exciting president ford told nasa to name it after captain kirks ship from the legendary show "star trek." >> space, the final frontier. these are the voyages of the sta...

and jason carroll is out watching in new york. jason, why dont we start with you. what have you been able to see, feel, hear? give us an understanding of the landscape. >> reporter: what do i hear now? i think its the staples singers singing "ill take you there." i think thats what they are playing now. and the shuttle took a lot of astronauts to a lot of different places. but the "enterprise" never made it to space. but still exciting nonetheless. exciting for the hundreds of invited ...

Returning to exploration, but the manner in which we did that didnt allow the six years from 2004 until 2010 to come up with a replacement to the shuttle. if we retired it at that point. and for 30 years we have been watching the shuttle land on a runway and it appeared to me that the previous program was very well satisfied with going back to the days of mercury and "apollo" landing in the ocean. i dont think thats u.s. leadership. i think we need to do things like not have a gap in our space f...

The manner in which we did that didnt allow the six years from 2004 until 2010 to come up with a replacement. to the shuttle, if we retired it at that point. and for 30 years, we have been watching the shuttle land on a runway, and it appeared to me that the previous program was very well satisfied with going back to the days of mercury, gemny and apollo and landing in the ocean. again, i dont think thats u.s. leadership. i think we need to do things like not have a gap in our space flight progr...

Didnt allow the six years from 2004 until 2010 to come up with a replacement to the shuttle, if we retired it at that point. and for 30 years, we have been watching the shuttle land on a runway, and it appeared to me that the previous program was very well satisfied with going back to the days of "mercury," "gemini" and "apollo" and landing in the ocean. again, i dont think thats u.s. leadership. i think we need to do things like not have a gap in our space flight program that allows -- that for...

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