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Doing. it's a matter of getting the public interest so we can have the programs. >> mark, real quickly, i need to ask you how your wife, gabby giffords is doing. >> gabby is doing really well. she is in therapy most days. she is back in houston right now, we're hoping to get back to tucson more often, but she is keeping busy, working hard, in a great mood. >> captain mark kelly former nasa astronauts. we don't get to talk to astronauts enough on this program. thank you for joining us and send our best to your wife. for complete and full recovery. wish you the best, thank you. >> i'll tell her ...

Classmates to watch the launch or the safe return of one of our shuttles in this country, how do you think that your goal of hoping the country gathers that support again and the resours that we need to continue thriving in terms of an american space program will happen if we don't have those type of moments, those events where we gather together around the tv set as a country? >> well there is a lot of distractions. i don't know how many channels are there are on cable tv now. with the internet and all different kind of media, there is distractions from it. when apollo flew, there were six tv...

Enterprise is different, it was used for tests, it is incredible for people to have the things up close. >> i want to give everybody a little back story on enterprise, rolled out in 1976, first built, never flew in space, and marks a you said, it was used for the high altitude test flights. as a gen-xer, what do you think it means to kids that the shuttle program is disbanded but having the opportunity to see the shuttles for thens, to continue our american fascination with space? >> after the columbia accident in 2003, nasa and the administration made a decision to retire the space shuttle. s...

Summer, after having the opportunity to fly on the space shuttle four times, and i moved on to other things, and like many astronauts that have come before me, i think we're all strong advocates of having a vibrant, effective human space flight program. we still have one, we have crews on the international space station right now. unfortunately, they have to get up there on a russian soyuz, that will change in the next five or six years, we will have u.s. spacecraft flying people off the planet we're excited about that. >> you are an advocate, i didn't mean to suggest you're part of future pla...