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A given. >> right. >> now what we're looking at is how do we move forward to do more exciting things. so, the -- the cancellation of the constellation vehicle has caused a lot of consternation. what constellation was never going to do was never going to get us into low earth orbit in time not to have to rely on some other kinds of carriers. that's a really important thing. and the other piece -- >> are you concerned -- >> okay. >> one of the things i read it's not maybe a bad idea what the president is proposing, but that it lacks a vision around which everybody can rally. when you think you'r...

Of the line with no idea of what's next. we get to know one of them with the help of cnn all platform journalist jonathan cowells. >> we're now standing underneath the right-hand wing of atlantis. i carry the model because there's no place in this building you can step back and see the entire orbiter. >> liftoff. >> we knew from the beginning that the orbiter was designed to fly 100 flights, so it wasn't some piece of spacecraft that was going to keep going on forever and ever. all the gray ones were pristine black. they have been on since the original build. like the rest of our space history...

To take crews and cargo deep into space. you know, with only three more shuttle missions scheduled, thousands of nasa employees are wondering what's next? we'll get to know one of them with the cnn of cnn at platform journalest join cowel. >> we are stand under the right hand wing of atlantis. i carry this model because there is no place that you can step back and see the entire orbiter. >> we knew from the beginning that the orbiter was designed to fly 100 flights so it wasn't some piece of spacecraft that was going to keep going on forever and ever. >> all of the gray-looking ones were prist...

Left which has thousands of nasa employees looking at the end of the line with no idea of what's next. we get to know one of them with the help of cnn all platform journalist john cowel. >> we are now standing underneath the righthand wing of atlantis. i carry the model because there's no place in the building that you can step back and see the entire orbiter. >> liftoff -- >> will knew from the beginning that the orbiter was designed to fly 100 flights. so it wasn't some piece of spacecraft that was going to keep going on forever and ever. >> all of the gray-looking ones were pristine black l...

And what they do is they capture things like foam falling off the external fuel tank. take a look at video here, what we saw, and again, it's the timing that's important here, because around four minutes into the mission, four minutes after launch, we see pieces of debris, pieces of the external fuel tank, foam we're thinking, ripping off the external fuel tank and floating by the belly of the orbiter. did it strike the belly of the orbiter, we're not sure. nasa is looking into it. but again, it happened four minutes after the launch. the critical time nasa says is within the first two minutes...