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I spent on the space station. so that s the kind of thing that we need to have the government focus on and then have commercial providers help to provide services. carl walz, has a former astronaut with first hand view of this shuttle program, you ve been up and back. now you re in private industry. thanks so much for joining us. we ll be going out as soon as the astronauts step out and we ll be going back with our experts as well. we will. straight ahead, brand new information from the bin laden compound. terrorists working inside our nuclear power plant. huh? and that s not all, details ahead. then scouts make it their mission to be prepared but a scout leader caught off guard and thrown in jail? it winds up he accidentally left a stray bullet in his bag. did airport security go too far? first, happy birthday to josh harnett. the actor is 33. happy birthday, josh. ....
of nasa himself, his voice actually cracked a little bit when he said the mission at its end. this is a tough day. it is. and i don t think i ve still gotten my head around the fact that we re not going to see these wonderful ships fly again. in order to free up funds for what comes next at nasa, they ve decided to retire the space shuttle, space station complete in terms of its assembly so now it s moving on to the experimental phase of the station and nasa is trying to reprogram those into the commercial taxi service that will take over from the russians very quickly. that s still four or five years away and maybe deep space beyond. that s where the big questions are, whether we re going to follow through on that promise. you just described to us earlier how this is a record breaking crowd there at the kennedy space center. tell us what happened when the shuttle landed. for the first time in my coverage of the space shuttle landings, there was a huge round of ap ....
in order to free up funds for what comes next at nasa, they ve decided to retire the space shuttle, space station complete in terms of its assembly so now it s moving on to the experimental phase of the station and nasa is trying to reprogram those into the commercial taxi service that will take over from the russians very quickly. that s still four or five years away and maybe deep space beyond. that s where the big questions are, whether we re going to follow through on that promise. you just described to us earlier how this is a record breaking crowd there at the kennedy space center. tell us what happened when the shuttle landed. for the first time in my coverage of the space shuttle landings, there was a huge round of applause as it landed. a lot of excitement. and there certainly is the sense of wow, this is really it. this is the very final time we re going to see this down. it s a little bit of a drag that it was predawn. it s really hard to see. usually see ....