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Lot of campaigns, as you know, back to teddy roosevelt, in that this is a new low. this is a really new low. response to a legitimate candidates views on issues is just to call that candidate a liar? what is that all about? it means that theyre out of ideas, altitude and air space. >> brian: ronald reagan didnt do that as we researched, neither did george bush when they lost their debates. thanks so much for coming in and talking to us today. >> thanks for having me on. >> steve: straight ahead,...

>> brian: okay, fine. 12 minutes before the top of the hour. remember when you were a little kid and dreamed of being an astronaut? well, want to learn all about the space program? there is a new way to do it by a guy that went to space and came back to talk about it. astronaut mark kelly remembers what that was like and he wants to share that passion with you. hes got a brand-new book out, you will love it. >> gretchen: its all for kids. but first on this day in history in 1986, "when i think o...

United states is out of the manned space program, it is so sad. if you were around as i was if mercury and gemini and apollo and the shuttle, the idea that it is going into mothballs in museums, it is kind of sad. >>shepard: i was around for the moon landing, my nana said it did not happen, it happened in a movie studio. >>chris: did you believe that with her in >>shepard: she was nana. >>chris: that goes without saying. the last time, tom jones, how do you feel about this? >>guest: im also sad....

>> she kept telling them there was nothing for sale in the shed. finally they left. >> then they came back after other folks left. >> they said i want your money. >> police say the suspects took off in a mini van. >> texas. this high school senior beat out hundreds of other students to win a ft. worth sketching competition. he says a fire burned up his original drawing along with the rest of his familys apartment just two days before the contest deadline. >> we left our system on but i dont know...

California. >> brian: emblematic of our space program which can no longer fly. >> steve: its going to fly low over tucson, arizona to honor gabrielle giffords. the request was made by her husband, mark kelly, who was the last person to fly the shuttle. >> brian: she encouraged him to go up despite her recovery. >> steve: i think later today theyll land at lax. valley it will be displayed at the california science center because the thing is so big, theyve had to cut down 400 trees. theyve had to...

>> brian: fascinating. mark stein is here action author of "after america," it sole so well. mark, you are watching the space program here. we dont have a space program. this is a depressing shot. >> i got a whole section in there in my book on the space program. hard to imagine this country even going to the moon, putting a man on the moon anymore. we dont have -- we have nasa. what were they talking about? nasa television covering this. whats the point of having a nasa television? the head of ...

As he can get. sew phrased it badly. but this is the greatish of our time of the adds pat buchanan said. and it is the other side of the space programs story. we no longer have a space program, but we have a massively expanded social security disability program in which healthy 52-year-olds have given all hope of finding work ever again. >> brian: youre saying this an opportunity of taking -- if taken correctly by governor romney, he should run with these remarks and make america examine what th...

Given credit. i think thats why people are so disturbed that weve now given away our space program after all that work and all the heroics. but it was a different time, and people were extremely proud and happy to be americans. bill: how did you feel that day in. >> ive been through a lot of things in my life, and i dont get attached to them while im doing them. i think about them later. i know that my job there is as a professional. i worry about making it happen, making it work and getting out...

Under this administration? >> well, i think that its such an i thin inspirational moment. as we just heard from president nixon, it brought the country together and i think inboun insd the world, what neil armstrong did. in the current context you have to take into account are americans of the mind that were willing to spend billions of dollars for further space exploration. the decision has obviously been made by this president that while we maintain a space program, we dont do so at the same l...

Vision and did the right things his entire life. he was just a wonderful guy. and he was an icon not only to the country but to everyone that was in the space program. >>neil: colonel i got a sense from interviewing you and so many your colleagues, including a chat with neil armstrong, i think, on the 40th anniversary of the landing, that he was not comfortable in that hero role. this is from then, something i want to pick up with you, neil armstrong, back then. >> do you get annoyed, you are co...