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Scientific discourse with muslim nation. given algebra a thousand years ago, what have they done for us lately. >> you mention the washington times, elliss, we checked, the washington examiner, i should say, checked, total words about nasas muslim outreach in the new york times, zero. washington post, zero, nbc nightly news, zero. same for abc and cbs news broadcasts. >> im happy to see there are 3, 2, 1 lift-off in nasa. theres one small point let me make quickly it isnt a bad thing to have our...

Director responded the way you would expect. "given the recent wave of incidents targeting american mosques, the bias motive for this -- >> i wish you could expand on those incidents. but maybe he is too busy working on nasas space program. they figured out who set fire to the mosque, and it is this guy. investigators say he belongs to the congregation of the church. if you ask me, it is hard to be an anti-muslim biggot if you are muslim. but i doubt they will allow it to clog up the ideology. t...

Years sentence at a maximum security prison in northern russia for allegedly passing secrets of russias space program to a london firm. but now we are told that he is part of the exchange, and his attorney says that sutyagins father received a phone call and he was seen getting off of a plane in vienna, austria, and it is moving fast toward that end to the united states as well. >> it is extraordinary how quickly this unfolded from the time of the arrest of the ten russians until now. it has bee...

Gaffaney at the center for public policy still has a problem with collaboration. whats wrong with trying to get the best in technological ideas from all corners of the globe including the muslim corners of the globe if itll help your space program? >> well i dont know of anybody who thinks there is a huge abundance of technological know how in the space business in the muslim world at the moment. so what the president is talking about is really transferring our know how to them and i think its a...

Is standing behind nasas top man who says president obama wants the space agencys top priority to be muslim outreach. senior correspondent brian wilson reports its just the latest hurdle for a troubled space program. >> liftoff of discovery -- >> reporter: nasa is an agency facing tough times. when the final two shuttle flights are completed early next year, the u.s. will have no capability to launch astronauts to low-earth orbit. well depend on the russians for that. the constellation plan to g...

With three things. one is he wanted me to help reinspire children to want to get into science and math, expand our international relationships and third and, perhaps, foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the muslim world and engage much more with dominantly muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science and engineering. science, math and engineering. >> thats right. you heard the guy who runs nasa say that one of the jobs that the president gav...

Saying its important but not the foremost mission. now to former astronaut gene cernan who says houston, we have a big problem. he joins us by phone. what do you make of this? maybe its not foremost. is it a mission at all? >> i was blown away when i heard those comments. i cant believe he really himself believes that. if he does, the space program, americas future in space, is in grave, grave trouble. >> what mr. bolden was saying is muslim nations contributed much to math and science over huma...

>> shepard: flight change and extended life for the space shuttle program after weeks of hints a of launch delays. the space agency making it official the space program will not end until next year which causes bells to go off in the studio. the shuttle "discovery" had been scheduled to fly next to last in september. now it is set for the first of november. the last mission now has a launch date in february of 2011. nasa officials say the agency needs more time to prep cargo for both flights. th...

On the floor of the gulf of mexico as a failsafe to a run-away well. tony hayward, the ceo of bp, testified before congress back in june, said of blowout preventers, it would appear the industrys ultimate failsafe mechanism is not as failsafe as rights of it to be, talking about the deepwater horizon blowout. can we, elgie, really rely on this piece of equipment as a failsafe? >> i dont think we should be relying on a single piece of equipment. thats one of the good things about this legislation...

Americas leadership in space to who whoever wants to take over. if you analyze it closely and neil arm stong, jim lovelle and i defended our position in washington in front of congress and we fell very strong -- feel very strongly the pace program will no longer be the space program we grew up with and took for granted. the investment in technology wont be there because technology needs a goal. it needs a focus, a challenge. it needs a reason for being there. if you want to step out beyond surfa...