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As we saw this weekend, putting an astronaut on the space, we have to pay russians millions of dollars for the ride because we no longer have a space shuttle program. another example of obama outsourcing. joining me now to reacted and much more, author of brand-new book, good friend james carville. last time we debated, tim russert. >> that was a lot of fun. we went to different places like orlando. >> i love your wife but i dont what she was thinking. >> sometimes i wonder myself. im a lucky gu...

Nasa are still out of work a year after the end of the manned space shuttle program. they are literally walking around the kennedy space center giving tours to dignitaries and providing oral histories to tourists. scott horowitz is a former nasa astronaut. doc, welcome back to the program. its sad. >> yes, megyn, its very sad. thanks for having me back. as bad as it is down in florida, its tens of thousands of aerospace workers across the entire country that this has affected. megyn: and lets no...

Contractor failed to provide more than 10,000 security guards for the games. the british has brought in the military t the slack. >> gregg: serious hardships facing thousands of nasa employees. more than 7400 people at the kennedy space center lost their jobs last july when the obama administration ended the space shuttle program. florida got 5700 workers and half of them have found new jobs and quarter of those are out of state. many workers have had to settle for much lower paying positions. >...

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washington. this is very serious. theyre not telling us where these jets were scrambled from but you know it is serious when they scramble two aircraft to bring in a civilian passenger jet. >> reporter: yeah. the two f-15s for scrambled about 40 minutes before this plane landed in bangor. there are a couple nearby bases that could do that, but norad confirmed they did use two f-15s to accompany this plane, which is a boeing 767. us airways flight 787 onto the ground in bangor, maine. b...

Yes, this is the same guy who confronted the girl in sandy, but they have a pretty good idea who he is and when they catch him. cops will definitely be asking him about it. >> ideally, he wed like to, you know, put him behind bars as soon as possible. >> and that was scott mccain of fox afill the yacht kstu reporting. >> well, the shuttle enterprise has moved into a hangar and theyll work to turn it into the museum. it arrived from d.c. last month and eventually sit on the flight deck of the int...

Discovery and everything really the space shuttle program stands for. if youre joining us what weve been watching over the last several hours, you saw on your split screen a few moments ago the space shuttle taking off from dulles airport in washington, d.c. it moved out its home in the smithsonian. it got to the airport at 9:30 or so to dulles. it is doing a second round, if you will, jon. we do know the elements of jfk are windy. whether or not that is a huge factor here we have yet to know. w...

Along the way and the program was sidelined, put on the back burner, during the period where they tried to return it to space. that was, you know, really sort of the obviously the tragic side of the space shuttle program as we watched it move through. now we have the quasi-private, public effort to get back into space. we lose the shot. it is very windy as laura ingle pointed out. it is a day to remember to think about the space program as a nation and how truly dedicated we are to it. bill: thi...

Now come into view. pam, youve been inside enterprise. what would we learn if we walked through it as a tourist? >> well, enterprise is actually just like the other orbitors. there are a few pieces in terms of crew equipment. there is less of that because it was used for approach and landing. but the real core structure and lines are exactly the same. and you would be surprised if you had the chance to go inside at how small the area is where people live. its actually just about the size of a mi...