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we'll see more of you tomorrow morning as well. meantime, this is a pivotal day in the 2012 presidential race. the nation's first southern gop primary is happening right now in south carolina and the contest promises to be quite the cliff hanger. we'll get you the latest dramatic poll numbers in just a moment. but first, the two leading contenders in the state, newt gingrich and mitt romney, actually ended up campaigning in the same spot this morning. tommy's country ham house in greenville, south carolina. cnn national political correspondent jim acosta was there to see it all u...

Failed. so i think the future is bright. there's going to be a period of time where we're going to develop our next generation of launch vehicles and it'll be a challenging transition. i expect great things. >> you made a tough personal decision, tough family decision to take this mission with your wife in a very delicate stage of her recovery while you've been up in space and she has had surgery. it was obviously a tough call. any moments during the mission from when you took off now as you prepare to come home where you question that call and said, oh, boy, should i be here? >> no. i don't h...

of important developments in the middle east and north africa. most of them troubling. the brutal regime in syria declared general amnesty today but human rights groups and the obama administration are quick to label it a sham. designed they say to distract attention from a bloody crackdown. in yemen, civil strife spread after a cease fire agreement between the government and opposition forces in the capital city collapsed. the regime of moammar gadhafi in libya defiantly today again vowed to hold power, rejecting the latest effort to broker a diplomatic solution to the civil war the...

>> t-minus five minutes and counting. otc. perform the a.t. start. >> talking about "discovery" being the oldest of the launch vehicles, you know. >> most used. >> reporter: and what a tremendous vehicle, you know, flew both the return to flight missions, flew john glenn into space. >> guys, let me jump in for just a second. z, let me,ump in now we're seeing the clock is officially ticking down, so it is a go. can you ask your astronaut friend there, what would be going on inside of "discovery" as the crew of six is sitting there wondering their fate? what would he be thinking right now? >> th...

We just didn't have enough money to do that. so, i think the reallocation as the president said, is going to result in reaching a heavy lift vehicle sooner than we would with the president -- previous president's plan where we were going to build two different launch vehicles, which would have been competing with the private sector. i think the commercial people are fully capable. they have done this in the past in aviation and i'm certain they will be able to do that with the space flight. >> buzz, let me ask you, before i lose you, did you enjoy your "dancing with the stars" time? i was just...