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Made in the last 50 years. one penny out of each our tax dollars goes to space. hubble telescope, unmanned spacecraft, the space station, shuttle. one penny out of every one of our tax dollars. tell me we cant find that much money to support the space program, what it means to this country, diplomatically, internationally, educationally. when in your lifetime owe youre a good example -- have you ever seen someone so expired and excited about realizing they can do something that they didnt think ...

>> roger... bill: it was perfect, i tell you. so perfect! the crew of six among many jobs over the next 16 days will bring a alpha magnetic spectrometer, $2 billion, a science lab that will map the entire universe, go deeper into space than we have been able to see before and that is certainly exciting and, then, when it comes back, to earth, it will permanently be placed in a museum in los angeles, and that is where it was made, 20 years ago. it has been in flight, 19 years, and yeomans work an...

path through louisianas cajun country. >> were fortunate that were have what we have, we havent an opportunity to get out. material things we can replace. our family and what we believe in daily, just cant put prices on that. >> did you put up the sign? >> yeah, i put it up, im proud of that sign. its just what we say, we will be back. >> almost a week after the mississippi crested in memphis, the river remains 11 feet above flood stage. president obama is in memphis today to get a loo...

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...

Should we be scared with this? >> no. in fact, you should take out your binoculars and go out on november 8th, around midnight, to see this rather historic event, an asteroid, whizzing right overhead. remember these asteroids have done this before, coming between the earth and the moon, but we never had advance warning. by the time we knew about it, they were already gone. this time, were getting cameras ready, telescopes, radar, were going to photograph every single inch of that asteroid. its o...

Been some scandals here and there so we will have the full details on that story. also later, blasting off in private rocket ships. is this the future of the american space program? many people say the space programs been a giant waste of money. other people say its been very useful but now private space flight is all of the rage. >> very interesting to get involved in the shuttle business after nasa kind of retires its fleet. well see. but before all of that, it looks like the historic musi...

They say they were told that other passengers on this delta commuter flight were uncomfortable with them being on the plane. heres a statement now from atlantic southeast airlines. they say "we take security and safety very seriously and the event is currently under investigation. we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused." the statement doesnt explain why the men were removed from the plane and tsa says the two men were screened and cleared to fly. nasa postponed the launch of s...

>> a "fox news alert," nasa cancelling tomorrows launch of the shuttle endeavour, the second delay without a doubt, disappointing thousands of people, who turned out to witness history, the second to last mission of the nasa 30-year space program and engineers discovered a problem in the heating system, requiring extensive repairs and nasa putting off the next possible launch until the end of this launch until the end of this week, at the very earliest. captioning by, closed captioning services,...

Churned that up. do you get a sense of how -- >> yeah. >> you understand that? >> oh, absolutely. i flew over tuscaloosa day before yesterday. and when youre 15 miles out, you can see that brown line. and its just -- you can see it for miles and miles how deep and how scarring it was on tuscaloosa. i mean, it just looks like a pencil eraser came straight through the center of town. >> great description there. dusty compton, i know that your photographs are doing a wonderful job of describing the...

News or solutions, you didnt get that. americans are probably, like, well, we knew that, things are bad, more of that. >> well get more from you in a couple of minutes. >> ill put a positive spin on the next one. >> thank you. with the launch of the nasa space shuttle "endeavour" postponed, now many are questioning the future of the space program. the agency is set to transition to longer range projects, but first once aboard the international space station, the "endeavour" will carry a device...