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>> 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 ...

Including lunar landings, the space shuttle program and the international space station. phil keating live from the kennedy space center today. >> a whole lot of nostalgia and a great deal of pride. many tourists coming down to the rocks and garden, always popular here. looking at the old rockets that preceded the space shuttle getting man into space. that ended in 62 with this tall silver one, and final not just getting into space, but nasa was able to put john glenn into orbit, putting the uni...

Space when john glenn becomes the first american to walk on the earth. it open today way to decades of exploration >> the view is tremendous. >> jeffrey is with time magazine and writing about it all. thanks so much. you interviewed john glenn and he has also talked to brian williams recently about the step back from space. let me play a bit of that for you. >> im sorry that we are not maximizing the research/return out of the space program, it means that without the shuttle, we have no way of g...

Your eyes might change shape and your vision might change enough that you couldnt see the instrument panel to make an emergency instrument panel if you had to. >> reporter: when he did plaque down in the atlantic he was a national hero. the soviets launched the first cosmonaut into orbit just 10 moss prior. hes concerned about the cancellation of the space shuttle program complaining that the u.s. is dependent on rushu to get its astronauts to and from the international space station at the cost...

-- the automatic control system went out at the end of the first orbit, it was wasting fuel and i was able to go to the manual and control that through the backup systems that were provided. >> reporter: john glenn became a national hero, the struggle came at the heart of the cold war battle with the soviet union, and it was ten months before that the cosmonaut orbited the earth. there was a space war going on and glenn has been critical of the direction of nasa saying the space shuttle program ...

governments brutal onslaught in homs, day five, where neighborhoods are now raging battlegrou battlegrounds. a doctor there said bodies began coming in before the sunrise and says everyone is waiting to die. an activist echoed that earlier on cnn. >> what keeps you going? >> we have no choice, no other choice. we are dying slightly, and we tried to save each other at least, i mean, to keep somebody alive. because we believe we are all going to die here. >> with the death toll rising by...

Brad davis, abc news. >> pretty cool car there. i like that. >> put some siren lights on that thing. >> and let it go. actually, 1,000 jobs were lost in florida when the space shuttle program stopped. so good to see that back. >> and i am behind the wheel because of that study that women are better drivers than men. at least were better at parking the car. >> there should be another graphic of you crashing. >> i think im actually parallel parking right there. trying to get out of the car. >> exc...

Last night we heard more of the same from newt, that hes going to keep going and hell be the nominee in tampa this summer. ive done quick math. if you combined his results with those of rick santorum last night, you would have had a near tie with mitt romney. so the maybe newts talk of a moon colony and shuttle trips to mars isnt so crazy after all. >> well, thats right. i mean, the moon talk in florida he was reaching out to the space community at cape canaveral, cape kennedy, people who are fa...

fighting for third. in the 19th debate of the season and the last before florida votes next tuesday, the front-runners tangled over investments and campaign rhetoric. much more in fair game. a day after the captain admitted that he made a mistake and wrecked the ship, $14,000 is being offered to the passengers. but this ordeal is far from over. a 16th body was recovered on tuesday while another 16 passengers are still missing. the rescue operations chief says crews are trying to open...

>> welcome aboard, folks. i dont know about you guys but im ready to go. im ready to go to the moon. newt gingrich said yesterday down in florida if he is elected by the end of the second term, hes going to establish a permanent base of americans on the moon. are you ready to go, folks? >> all right! >> he will finance the building of those with fannie and freddie stock. >> the minute that the space program collapsed after the space shuttle and the funding was pulled for the trip to the moon and...