Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120427:14:25:00
It first flew in 1981, after the columbia accident under president bush, we decided it was time to retire the space shuttle and build a new system. that changed under the current administration a little bit now we're doing commercial crew, we have a bunch of companies that are going to try to give us access again to the international space station and access to low earth orbit, sierra nevada, spacex has been successful, they orbited dragon 17 months ago and they are getting ready to fly a cargo ship up to the space station next month. so we're getting back in the business hopefully of flying p...