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On the space station right now with zero gravity, and long durations in space for men and women is the kind of research that is actually necessary for more distant space exploration. you speak to a guy like senator leahy, frankly as excited as he is to see this happen today is very disappointed in the space shuttle program. hes disappointed that so much money was invested in the international space program at the expense of a second generation of shuttle aircraft. he told me that he spoke with s...

Of people have depended upon the nasa space shuttle program over the years for their economic viability but the pride of nasas, onitier fleet, the discovery, the oldest and most accomplished of the shuttle orbiters, 39 trips into space, three hubble missions and unlimited ferrying of processing and supplies up to help build the international space station, right now on the southern end of the runway here at 6:45, its going to taxi this direction to the north end and then at 7:06 is the word were...

Remember the whole reason, the purpose for the space shuttle program was the building and establishing of the international space station, which they did accomplish. there were some tragedies of course along the which with columbia and with challenger and discovery was the renewal of that mission as it went up into space after those tragedies and renewed the tprap program on its even with those successful flights. it has been quite a story in space exploration and with the international space st...

peppers, "californication" i love that. i like it, i like it. joining us is will cain, mark lamont hill, professor at columbia university and john fugelsang, political comedian. i love watching the shuttle take off going into retirement after 39 different flights. >> even when its taking off on top of a jumbo jet? >> yes, will cain. >> its amazing, look at how huge that is. >> i watched it many times from my parents yard in florida. >> 39 times, more than any other shuttle. its a piece...

there in florida? >> yep. im here in florida, yep. >> this is your beat for many, many years as you watch this, as youre kind of going over in your head how many times you have you have interviewed the crews, whens going through your mind? what are you thinking about as we start to watch the craft land? >> you know, i think like so many people here think and of course, you know, my opinion is certainly somewhat skewed that, you know, it had a lot of flights left in them. all of the veh...

morning calling it trickle down taxation. pricey light. the new light bulb to replace regular hits stores this sunday, earth day. this thing lasts for 20 years. it costs as much as 60 bucks. new home. shuttle "discovery" hitching a ride heading up the east coast from florida to virginia. amazing new pictures this hour. an eye popping eruption you have got to see. "newsroom" begins right now. taxpayer outrage this morning is growing over the millions of dollars seemingly squande...

Jon: all three engines up and burning. two, one, zero and liftoff. the final liftoff of atlantis on the shoulders of the space shuttle america will continue the dream. jenna: its so amazing to watch. the space shuttle program, a source of national pride for 30 years, but after the last shuttle took off from the kennedy space center in july about 7,000 people lost their jobs, in brevard county, florida lost its largest employer. with major nasa budget cuts and the future of manned flight in quest...

Any pressure. hes counting delegates that havent been given to him yet and all the delegate counts and numbers are really just kind of fictitious. its not like we have hundreds of people sitting in back rooms waiting to come out and vote for us. these people havent even been elected at the local levels to be delegates in some of the states. as you well know the 210 insurgency the tea partyers took over a large portion of the conservative vote in some of these states. of course they are more cons...

>> legendary funny man, steve carell and david steinberg and a tribute to a real all american hero on piers morgan tonight. good evening. our big story tonight, whitney houston, fallen diva laid to rest, buried by side her father in a new jersey cemetery and about the extraordinary performance at the funeral and the song the family asked him to sing and pat obrien and talking about whitney and his own struggle with addiction and david carell and steinberg. >> are you a funny person by ...

>> legendary funny man, steve carell and david steinberg and a tribute to a real all american hero on piers morgan tonight. good evening. our big story tonight, whitney houston, fallen diva laid to rest, buried by side her father in a new jersey cemetery and about the extraordinary performance at the funeral and the song the family asked him to sing and pat obrien and talking about whitney and his own struggle with addiction and david carell and steinberg. >> are you a funny person by ...