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>> be able to go back and forth. >> would you -- i feel like theres an election joke in here swrnch somewhere. >> there is. if you go back to 2012 and newt gingrich, it was his platform, newt gingrich and the moon. this is where we are in legacy for barack obama talking about whats going on in the future. barack obama talks about how much he invested in the space program. the space program has changed immensely over the past couple years, we dont have shuttles going up, were going more to the pr...

Lives of their first responders. they dont want their officers out because it becomes very, very dangerous for them. a little bit further north we were talking about this earlier, there is a satellite sitting on the launch pad inside the vehicle center that is a $1.2 billion satellite, there it is, it is the goesr satellite, it is supposed to take us into the next century when it comes to predicting storms. this satellite could be damaged or destroyed by this storm. this is a major concern among...

About the real estate cocoa beach is on, your proximity to great national landmarks in the space program. >> yes, were about roughly seven or eight miles south of kennedy space center. obviously where the space shuttle recently retired. weve got some new programs coming along that i really wish the rest of the country would hear more about, but were very familiar with it here. in cocoa beach, yes, we have the ocean to the east. we also have the banana river and india river lagoon system. were wh...

Our first missions into space, what became an extension of the cold war, really, where apollo 11 took off, where the shuttle program started, to say nothing of amerimercury, gemini. water levels were already dangerously high there. these mostly steel launch pads are not getting any younger, and a lot of them are corroding rapidly. >> its worth noting this is where the future of the space program will likely be based. weve seen spacex and a number of private companies running launches as early as...

About how government can work is what he -- was his description of how the american space program began, when russia got into space before we did. didnt deny that it happened. our view about the science, he said. the congress got together, the president got together. they appropriated money, they started a program. they built a space program, faster than the russians did. 12 years later, we were walk on the moon. that was a fascinating and quick lesson about how government can and should work in...

Want to be friends with americans? >> why knowledgenot? >> reporter: years of isolation began during the previous kim regimes. young future scientists, doctors, and other students have little or no access to the internet. only a state-controlled intranet. i see a lot of students doing research in the library. theyre using north koreas version of the ipad. they study surrounded by photos of their leaders. and models of north korean weapons. >> it means that our nation is very powerful. >> reporte...

Now it was first sputnik and now first man in space was russian and you can understand that this was really in the middle of the cold war, there was competition of the great super powers. >> president, could you give us your view, sir, of the soviet achievement of putting a man in or bit and what it would mean to our space program? >> its the most impressive scientific accomplishment. i already sent congratulations to the man who was involved. >> the space race wasnt just about space. it was abo...

A breath of fresh air. >> after the last seven years of washington to have a speaker of the house who can get a budget passed, its great. former space shuttle commander captain mark kelly is here to tell us its not too late to join the space program. no, really. stay with us. the nations capil to support an important cause that can change the way you live for years to come. how can you help? by giving a little more, to yourself. i am running for my future. people sometimes forget to help thems...

1960s, it set the standard of what we could do. we even say today we can land a man on the moon, but we cant do this. when we think within the space program were like, go to mars? yeah, we can go to mars. we went to the moon in 1969. we can do anything. >> to all those americans who built those spacecraft and put their heart and all their abilities into those crafts, to those people, tonight we give a special thank you. to all the other people that are listening and watching tonight, god bless y...

Greater meaning of this. we werent aware of what was going on around the world in terms of the reaction of people. we just pressed right on. >> i think i see my crater. hey, there it is, there it is! son of a gun, right down the middle of the road. >> outstanding, 42 degrees. >> it wasnt until afterwards that we began to realize the depth of the significance of it. >> until apollo 11, the moon was unobtainable mystery. but after apollo 11, the moon is mysterious no longer. >> all of human experi...