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>> it was just really, really eerie. it was like looking into a mirror and seeing myself 20 years from now. >> who was donor coral? why was he selected for the repository for germinal choice. i was about to find out. >> hi, ben. >> hi. >> donor coral, real name benjamin, agreed to speak with us on the phone. >> its certainly good to give children as good a start as possible and intelligence is one of the things that helps people in life. >> did your educational pedigree, was that one of the reas...

>> just over your house. >> just over my hougs. . what is this? this is the government. this is the u.s. government setting a big, bold priority and making it happen. its science. its pro-science. these days, our political debates go between those bo e who believe in science and those who dont believe in science. >> you know what else? a lot of government employees. government employees are doing this. regular, public servants who are not big shots. regular names. they do this for the world. >...

Astronaut was -- meaning he was the guy communicating with armstrong and aldrin. >> the specialness, if you will of the 45th anniversary of apollo 11 is that we have indeed achieved a maturity in the space program, we built, operated, very successfully the entire space shuttle program. we now have an international space station with multinational participation in orbit operating. >> neil armstrong died about two years ago, but both buzz aldrin as well as michael collins who commanded the surface...

We have two roving around on mars and a spacecraft bound for pluto. no other nation has been as successful with exploration as we have. and the time now is to put humans into deep space. we have visit the soviet moon in 2020. we should be going to a nearby asteroid to touch another alien world for the first time. >> when we go up to space, we have to piggy-back on russia paying them $70 million per astronaut because the space shuttle program ended in 2011. is there now a time to get back into do...

Space, there is now an international space station. and there are astronauts up there, 200 or 300 miles up there right now, all of the time, working on stuff. heres the problem, though. if where you work is the international space station, turns out you have a terrible, terrible commute. when we still had the space shuttle program, that was one of the ways that we could get astronauts and stuff to and from the international space station. the space shuttle was a truly majestic and amazing aircra...

Heres the problem, though. if where you work is the international space station, turns out you have a terrible, terrible commute. when we still had the space shuttle program, that was one of the ways that we could get astronauts and stuff to and from the international space station. the space shuttle was a truly majestic and amazing aircraft, but honestly some of its last missions involved the necessary but sort of undignified task of just hauling dirty stuff and trash home from the internationa...

When former congressman and california governor richard m. nixon threw his hat into the presidential ring. the nixon campaign was successful. he was reelected for a second term and you know what happened after that. became the only president to resign from office in disgrace. one of president nixons lasting legacies was the nations space shuttle program which he approved in 1972. disaster struck the nation on this day in 2003 when the shuttle "columbia" disintegrated as it reentered earths atmos...

Case, make human shields. so that as republicans talk at how to fix a law thats not working, they will say, i suppose you dont want 9 million, but i say this. if youre going to make up a number, why not 50 million? why stop at 9? >> and by the way, this weeks word for everyone to look up is bunkum. brought to you courtesy of chris. >> no bunkum there. >> see you at 11:30 eastern tomorrow. foxnews.com/li foxnews.com/live. now this story is out of this world. since the space shuttle program went...

Exciting things going on and when you put the human in the loop so that the human is actually doing things like they did today, no robot could do all of that. and now we are building new rockets, we are building the rockets to take us to and from the space station, but we are also building the monster rocket that will take us beyond low earth orbit as we go out and explore the heavens and eventually in the time of 2030s, well go to mars. >> in the wake of the space shuttle program being shuttere...

In the not too distant future the dragon will not splash down but touchdown on land george jet son -- jettison style. going up 40 stores and then landing gently on the ground. >> next month spacex getting competition. >> all part of nasas plan to go from the space shuttle program, now retired to private space companies hauling cargo, and eventually human beings. orbital sciences, a space company in virginia, with tax dollar seed money, launches a dummy capsule to the station in mid-april. if suc...