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Pictures. would you look at that! look at that. this, huge plumes of black smoke. this is from icelands erupting volcano, shooting 55,000 feet into the sky. bringing air traffic to a standstill across europe. look at this. you can see why. would you want to fly in that? airports are shut down in the u.k., ireland, france, sweden, denmark, norway. this is unbelievable. this looks like bigger than any explosion you can imagine. one scientist in iceland quoted as saying the thick cloud of volume ca...

Retire in 2010 eliminating nearly 7,000 jobs at kennedy space center and tense of thousands elsewhere. families at least took comfort in president bushs plan to return u.s. astronauts to the moon by 2020. but in february of this year, the obama administration announced it was killing the moon mission, called constellation after having spent $9 billion on the program. this $500 million steel tower stands at 355 feet. its brand new, never been used before. it was built to launch rockets into space...

Shortly. speaking of sending a message, tomorrow the president unveils his new vision for americas space program, one that includes retiring the space shuttle and cutting thousands of jobs in the human space flight program. could this be the end of the final frontier? what kind of message led a florida man to an 11-year-old girl lost in a swamp for days? he says he prayed and god showed him the way. could there actually be something special going on in your brain when you pray? dr. sanjay gu...

Theres a sense here of a greater purpose and that is supporting human access to space beginning to do research and development, giving us the opportunity to go to new places and discover new things. i mean, there really is an exploration aspect to the space program that we have today and the people here are bound together to support that activity and be part of that overall accomplishment. its not just an accomplishment for people here. its really something that america should be proud of and th...

Interesting to you, that this statement is coming from him? >> well, it is, and it actually shows you the fissures within the u.s. government itself, between civilian leaders and military leaders, about how they are thinking about the iranian threat. and lets be clear, here, we are talking about an iranian nuclear program that is dynamic and has been moving along quickly and general cart wrighwright, has b very, very focused on figuring out how iran will be able to deliver those capabilities. ma...

Schulz. this sunday, noon to 2:00 eastern, only on msnbc. well, the presidents going to face a tough crowd at the kennedy space center this afternoon. hell make the case for scrapping nasas shuttle program and the moon mission, clearing the way for private companies to take the lead. some nasa heroes say thats a huge mistake, but not all of them. buzz aldrin piloted "apollo 11s" lunar module and is the second person to ever set foot on the moon. mr. aldrin, ive got to start with this. weve hea...

Suffered through media smackdowns are getting the last laugh. thats later in the grapevine. we will tell you why this could effect your upcoming overseas flight. and president obama tries to convince americans that the space program is not going up in smoke. are you receiving a payout from a legal settlement or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today.

The united states and its international partners have spent $100 billion building the international space station. and now, under the previous plan, it was going to be sunk into the ocean in the year 2015, literally sink it into the ocean in 2015 because thats the only way to pay for constellation and the only way to pay for the rest of the manned space program. its an international space program. the americans cant sink the space station into the ocean in 2015. so part of the obama plan says th...

Quality control people. in terms of wanting to make sure that they are on top of this. boy, you know, you scratch the surface. your getting a little bit deeper. >> we should remind folks that this is only the 2010 model year. there was a redesign. >> they are determining whether it is structural or the electronic software, whether they have to type it in, do the software fix and roll that out. >> deb feyerick for us this morning. thanks, deb. the future of nasa. how do you have a space program...

Is going to privatize the space program and that didnt work too well when we tried to privatize the war in iraq, the war in afghanistan. in general, we have a bad experience with there for the past two decades and i dont think this is going to be any different. there is no reason to believe that commercial entities can launch people or mass amounts of cargo into space. there is no evidence of that, no history of that, and we cant have the space program continue on a hope or a dream or a matter o...