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From extension. there only estimated 150 of them in the wild. top stories now, update for you. there is a volcano still erupting in iceland. it's expected to disrupt all half of all the flights across the atlantic tomorrow. it's dangerous to fly throughout ash because the tiny from particles can do serious damage from-to-an airplane's engine. they get in there and melt and turn to glass. and then as the temperature cools they crack and cause all kinds of problems. dozens of airports in europe are closed today because of the hazard. president obama is in florida or was to talk the future of nas...

>> the cuts represent about $6 billion. like all cuts, cuts hurt. right now the defense and space -- are squealing like a stuck pig president's plan to kill those two big programs from his budget. start with nasa's 3.5 billion-dollar effort to put men back on the moon. we crunch the numbers. on the taxpayer calculator on foxnews.com. for those earning 15 to $30,000, the constellation program costs about 1.62. if you are earn 200 to $250,000 the bill is more like $95. the other program the white house considers outdated, ineffective or wasteful is a c-17 cargo plane. last year congress refused ...

Radar can't pick it up. radar works on the principle of detecting water droplets in clouds. since the ash clouds are dry they don't detect radar. air travel is going to be something of a nightmare out of, into, and u shep, all around europe. >> shepard: so it would appear and always the possibility that this could open up another volcano. >> on and on. the president today made it perfectly clear he is setting his sights on space. is he predicting we will send humans first to an asteroid and then to mars all within the next few decades. the president spoke at kennedy space center the site that'...

Smoke detectors, memory foam, the dust buster, which came about because astronauts need ood small drill to extract core samples on the moon. in the medical field nasa helped improve mri scanning, better systems for detecting breast cancer and infrared thermometers. nasa is also credited with helping to create hundreds of other products and technologies from self-riding life rafts to the speedo swimsuit that helped michael phelps break the kind of records in the 2008 summer games. nasa can't rest on its past, the president's words today came at a critical juncture. even as the discovery orbits ...