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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. ....
Years ago, 12,000 people are working for the shuttle program. that number will go down by the end of august to 1,000. and they are wondering for many reasons what happens next for the people who made this a success. well, tamron, the second great space race is under way with the commercial companies. they will simply be trying to take astronauts back to the space station. but the congress, both houses, the white house and nasa isself say they want to go with heavy lift. the budget is there. this is a larger rocket that was planned that can carry the already planned and approved orion spacecraft with up to seven seven members into space and to deep space pretty soon. so anyway, the problem is right now it has been held up by bureaucrats in the office of management budget, paul shawcroft. i ll get it right. ....
Here behind me on two launchpads, a service tower, and all they have to do is put this together and start flying. it s going to be much cheaper than what they were doing. but what i was telling you, we ve always had this, nobody is against this, but paul shawcroft, a person in the omb, okay, why is he shoeldholding it up? you ve made him famous this morning. reporter: that s the question for you, chuck. jay barbree, a historic day. we ll be checking back with you every hour until we see this atlantis go up. as we follow this last mission of the shuttle. jay, good to see you, sir. reporter: thank you. well, another 7 million bucks is being poured into political attack ads this week. this time the target moves to capitol hill, the conservative group american crossroads has already blasted president obama and just today began a campaign targeting several democrat being senators up for reelection in 2012, the war being wage d. ....