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Advertisement, so to speak, to them about what nasa could offer, correct? >> true. instead of a nasa system flying ats we saw here on a future nasa rocket, this technology could be transferred to commercial providers, and i'm sure it will be. that's what nasa does is transfer technology to the commercial sector. and so these control motors, the guidance systems, the parachutes and all the elements that we saw tested here this morning should be paid close attention to by the commercial developers like spaceex, orbital sciences, trying to develop nasa's launch services contract over the next fiv...

Now on the test launch and if you want to watch that, it is streaming live on foxnews.com or watch the replay of that over and over and over again. bill: nasa, well done today. let's hope they work the magic in the gulf, right? because at this moment a specially built containment dome has arrived in the side of the massive oil spill, and we're watching the story, closely in the gulf, and the plan is to lower a 100-ton device over the ruptured oil fell and funnel the spewing oil into a surface tanker on the sea. and this is the first time it has been attempted at 5,000 feet below water and mean...

Combative struggle with the female police officer and, says the law doesn't always require that college and universities be notified when students are arrested off campus. bill: such a sad story. molly henneberg, thank you for that, in washington. martha: more on that in a while. but, this morning we saw something spectacular, folks, nasa's test launch of a new astronaut emergency escape system and fired on all cylinders in the test. look at this: beautiful morning in new mexico. blasted off from the white sands missile range there. simulating an accident, an unmanned mission. and the orion la...

Canceled by the president's potential to do away with the rocket and the capsule we're supposed to use aboard this system. bill: we launched the -- we watched nine launch from nasa and it looked like it laid it out. the shuttle mission, it never had an option like this to get out. >> well, that's true. and when my crew had a board back in 184, we had a main engine failure on the launchpad, we had no way of getting out of the shuttle except crawling out through the hatch and running down escape wires that would have taken several minutes to get away from the rocket and as you saw here in a spli...