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>> looks lake ike we have a lea high system 3, now. shepard: houston, we simulate aid problem and this shuttle must come home, immediately. >> if you never flew backwards at a rocket in mach-5, this is your one opportunity. >> reporter: the commander and his team are veterans of the space program. what is happening today never happened for real. shepard: it felt like it was falling apart. >> 12 years of training, that is what you are looking at, year 2 or 3, wed be looking the same way, but we d...

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Administrator garver who is an apologiist for the administration and the administration space plan. whatever it is. i cant figure it out. >> it is a shame to see the launches of humans in space going on hiatus. you think the oriion capsule. by 2015. so many thengs came out of the space program. lets put up on the scrone that came out of the space program going back to apollo. cordless tools and smoke detector and invisial line braces and joy sticks and dust buster and flame resistant fabrics. th...

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They were closing the shuttle program, they had 14,500 people working here, willie. they will have 7,000 when this is over with. less than half. and then they will move into the commercial space industry. we have a story today, if people are interested in this, bringing them up to date on the msnbc web science page called the next race to space. and it sets everything in perspective of whats going to be happening in the next four or five years here today. so, anyway, yes, theres a lot of nostalg...

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Singer. if "discovery" lands today, it will have spent a record 365 days in space. only two more shuttle launches left for nasa. coming up at 8:10 eastern, well be talking to bob springer, he flew back in 1989. what does he think about this shuttle being retired? and the future of this space program? were going to talk to him at 8:10 eastern. >> you folks out there, theres no excuse not to call your grand folks. you need to check in every once in a while. and heres one guy giving you no excuse...

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