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As many as 350-400 terrorists are present at the launchpads and training camps in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Manoj Mukund Naravane, said on Wednesday. ....
Have been worse. everybody digging in and helping each other all up and down the streets throughout the communities. it could be worse in florida. the johnson space center in houston was relatively unscathed by harvey. the kennedy space center is along the east coast of florida and could face irma s wrath. how do you think they re preparing? there are some sensitive equipment there. bob cabana, the base commander there, the senator director, has been through a number of these. he s got an incredible team in place. they re battening down the hatches and they ll be prepared to go through this. the big thing is to protect the infrastructure, the launchpads and the facilities, and i m certain that they re well ahead in getting that done. let s talk about the role that nasa plays in predicting these kinds of natural disasters. one thing that makes it so much better than it was 100 years ago is nasa uses its technology to really help on day to day stuff. a lot of people think of nasa a ....
we are hearing reports here in south korea from the intelligence agency that there are signs they re preparing another ballistic missile launch. possibly another intercontinental ballistic missile launch. i haven t seen much more than that. i don t know if they re looking at satellite imagery showing some movement around one of the launchpads. but we shouldn t be too surprised. i think that there are two things here first of all, part of what s happening here is this is north korea gearing up for an anniversary. you mentioned september 9th. that is the day the modern republic of north korea was founded. that s their foundation day. that s an important anniversary for north korea obviously and one that they want to have something to celebrate for. so part of what kim jong-un is doing is launching ballistic missiles, also testing nuclear devices so that they have something to celebrate on saturday. the other thing that s happening here is that if there is another ....
Still kind of inned heat. they have launchpads in california and in florida. two in florida they re working and building a giant rocket. for suborbital space, richard branson is ahead with virgin galactic. they have a design and building a new ship there. so paul allen, couldn t count him out. they re building world s largest airplane to launch a rocket in seattle. bill: they see the future. and it s right around the corner? it s really starting to happen now. bill: thanks, tariq malik, from space.com. my pleasure. bill: see you in space. martha. martha: all right. well the republican presidential candidates gearing up for the second big bait tonight. a lot at stake those looking to make favorable impression. others feeling the show on the campaign trail. we ll show you what is next. ....
Solid rockets on board shuttle and shuttle s main engines as well as the j2 engine that took astronauts to the moon, all of them proven hardware, good stuff, man rated, the launchpads are already here, everything is here, all they have to do is start getting ready and they can fly out of earth orbit and put a lot of these people back to work by 2016. i just found out from senator bill nelson, our senior senator here, that everybody is for this proposal, including the white house, but one person. that one person is in o hadmb, office of management and budget. his name is paul shawcroft. no one knows why paul shawcroft is holding this up, but every time we have finished a program, chuck, we have always had another spacecraft to go to. no spacecraft and they re ready to go but they can t get approval from this one guy. well, tell me this. ....