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/PRNewswire/ -- NASA and the Lone Star Flight Museum are inviting media to the final move of the Space Shuttle Motion Base Simulator to its new home at the...
Nasa for decades during the apollo programs. but not inside the capsule is a professional athletes. >> the few came before, many are about to follow. the door's opening now. it's pretty incredible. >> reporter: jared isaacman who funded the flight believes that the all-civilian mission to orbit will change perceptions about who gets to go to space. 29-year-old haley arsinoe is a pediatric physical's aid. and a finalist and didn't make the cut. and christian sembroski didn't think he had the right stuff. >> it's incredible to see someone out here, now i'm the one, down center line.
And chffey that day. bill: how important do astronaut.find this day to be? >> reporter: they find it extremely important. a lot of the american public was not alive in the gemini and apollo programs. if you were born after 1972, you never saw live on your television an american standing on the moon. i spoke with gene cernan. he tells me all the astronauts and fallen heroes, what they did leave behind is a legacy. >> mott only did we make the possible, possible. if you have got the passion to do something important in your life and the lives of your friends and family and entire
Space station and deep spacecraft like orion and the rocket that will carry it out on from the space station. they can't get going on these project unless they deliver cost savings that is important element of nasa's strategy. jon: i'm old enough to remember the mercury, and gemini and apollo programs. it was a sense of national pride when the big rockets on the saturn v would launch. it seems strange to hand it over to private enterprise. i guess i'm kind of stuck in the past, huh? >> i don't think you're stuck in the past. the launch this morning looks a lot like old saturn launches than the...
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