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Bolster his plan. as you said, nasa the direction for nasa as dictated by the administration is to abandon nasa as the carrier of astronauts to the space station and beyond and instead to outsource that to private companies, abandon the constellation program, which nasa spent billions of dollars already developing, which is essentially using technology that nasa mastered to get astronauts to the space station and beyond. abandon that and hand that over to private enterprise. the bottom line, it is facing a chorus of objection from republicans and democrat on the hill who were determined not to...

Program, which is building on what nasa already does and knows best, these big, heavy rockets and lifting men and women into space. not just to the moon, but to the space station. because this is critical. we will have no way to get to the space station as of early 2011. the shuttle fleet's being retired. you can't extend the life of the shuttle, because they're too old. so they have already spent all this money to build this new series of rockets called the constellation program. and now the president wants to kill that program and come up with a new program by essentially outsourcing it to p...

Price bidding for notes and telegrams said to be from john f. kennedy to a swedish mistress. they sold for $115,000. there is an apparent end to the decades-long dinosaur debate. an international team of sip tises say they have proof positive what ended the age of the reptiles. new geographic evidence shows a six-mile wide steroid slammed into our planet 65 million years ago. scientists say it dramatically altered the planet, changed weather patterns dramatically and killed off the dinosaurs. we're a little bit over. oh, well. that brings us down to the wire. now, to 2010. the space oddity...

But it is a great addition to our daily life. it is just an out of this world view. t.j. mentioned a couple and i'd like to mention africa are or south africa, chile, everything is so beautiful. and would like to share the view with the rest of the world. >> jeff, there's a huge policy debate down here in washington over president obama canceling the constellation program, what do you think of taxis essentially being used to transport iss crews up to the space station? >> well, it's really hard to predict where we're going to go and how that will work out. i know going to space, getting to spa...

Nasa is reportedly coming up with a plan "b" in order to remain the business of ferrying astronauts to the international space station and beyond. it comes as the white house seeks to cancel plans to build a new generation of spacecraft to replace the space shuttles. only four more shuttle missions are scheduled. and the white house wants to outsource missions to private companies. joining us via skype, veteran space correspondent jay barberie. jay, what does this all mean, that they're having to come up with a plan "b" here? >> tamron, what i'm told here by people who have been in this busine...