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Congratulating them for a great achievement you got through. the north korean space program had a better launch than this thing. i think theres something like 270 websites, more popular than obama care. and one of them i believe is princesses with packages.org. >> oh. what is that? >> i want to make a philosophy -- >> bizarro reference. >> good point here, failure doesnt matter in government, because there is no competition. so big government uses the lexicon of religion to justify their incompe...

Wrap our heads around it. that is more than $1 billion higher than the 2014 budget for nasa so give or take a space program. thats how much we lost in productivity, temporary layoffs, interest payments and so on. as long as were talking numbers, i should mention $14.7 trillion, thats the amount of our national debt as of last week, according to the treasury. next, one lobbyist is calling them the taliban minority. what are the consequences for the tea party caucus after the government shutdown...

The fact that people are excited about this now is not it. >> i beg to differ with you for a couple reasons. we are seeing people get involved. we are seeing people enrolling in their health care exchange. >> five people have enrolled in iowa. >> as well as the district of columbia. you can point out one or 2004 events as to why the law doesnt work. when you talk about people back on their health care insurance or young people saving $500 a month she will tell you why this law works. >> gentleme...

>> lets move on to the public policy dimension of this. were at a time where nasa is facing major cuts. obviously there is also the furlough of nasa workers, i think 97% of nasa workers are furloughed. space work in general being underfunded and the space shuttle is no more. do you think there is any part of the hype of this movie that could end up drumming up renewed support for nasa or making a whole generation, new generation interested in space travel? >> jake, i sure hope so. thats really m...

Regular jobs, maybe a movie like this, even though its somewhat fictional, will increase awareness of what is actually going on in space. hopefully inspire kids. i was inspired by space movies when i was a younger person. i think it will inspire a lot of young people as well. >> youre not a film critic, obviously, by training. give us your thumbs up or thumbs down on "gravity." >> im not a film critic. there are probably a lot of films i like people would raise their eyebrows about but i like th...

So i think -- i was kind of surprised at all the detail and accuracy, the detail of the set they created in the movie. >> what about the part they got wrong? what parts did you watch and think oh, thats just completely insane? >> i think what im happy about is they included not just the space shuttle and -- although we dont fly the space shuttle any longer. thats one thing. im glad they included it because its still part of our consciousness and our space program. at least the history of our spa...

Salesman. when it comes to the space program, kennedy was that and then some going full throttle. john f. kennedy at rice university. >> we choose to go to the moon. we choose to go to the moon in decade and do other things not because theyre easy but because they are hard. because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills. >> neil: now, a trip to the moon verses national healthcare, very different. what do you think? >> well, that was one of the most inspi...

Gyro boughts -- a -- robots, a cute robot in space. >> it is smart to do it to get kids involved in science. >> people have -- some people like row -- robot exphz some like teddy bears. whatever it takes for you to go to outerspace i ab do indicate. >> it is a perfect time to bring up the president obama end of the space program. >> thats right. putting it on obama. >> thats racist. >> she should be impeached. he should be impeached. >> he should be given a pooh etch to say thank you because i a...

With the tumbling economy. a lot of others are taking an interest in the place you walked on all those years ago. >> well, neil, ill accept the fact it is coincidental. you are hitting on a soft point. all these other nations. i think before the end of the year, china will end up dropping an unmanned vehicle on the moon. it has a rover. it is patterned significantly after our technology. the fact is they are doing it. i dont care where they get the technology. they are moving forward. we not onl...

Astrowives who could have had their own reality show, if you think about it, decades before reality tv even existed. our next guest wrote a book titled "the astronaut wives club." betty joins us to talk about the glamorous gals whose husbands were in the space program. were these the first housewives in the space race? >> the astronauts were picked on april 5th, 1969, and even nasa was surprised how much attention was focused on them but also on their wives. everyone wantsed to know, not why you...