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But here are the very quick highlights. the shuttle program will be retired this year. that's not the president's plan. that's been the plan for years. the russians will carry astronauts to the space station for the next five years. again, that's been the plan for years. the plan then was to go with a new rocket program called constellation. however, an outside panel that the obama administration brought in concluded that that program, constellation, had been dramatically underfunded. and by the way nobody argues with that. the bush administration and the previous congress never funded constel...

On the moon and your fellow nasa brethren are opening auto shops at the behest of the government to investigate toyota cars. something is not right with this picture. >> there's more going on and we may learn more. >> neil: why would nasa accept it? i don't know the mechanics of nasa, but why does it expect the government look you're not doing anything now, we canceled the rocket program so you have free time and look under the toyota hoods? >> i just saw something in, i guess it was the "washington post." nasa hires -- or national highway safety hires unemployed, underemployed nasa engineers ...

Rhetoric and there was no coverage in the iranian press following that and i think it might be another one of his grand statements. bill: you think it is just empty words? he's saying the nation of iran will deliver a harsh blow to the global arrogance of western powers, meaning the united states, and western european countries. that is just words in your view? >> well, he's also said iran is the most powerful country in the world and is probably the case that it is not even the most powerful country in its own region and if you follow him closely, he makes statements like this a lot. and he's...

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Himself in the chest. his family has agreed to donate his brain to a center that's doing research in what it calls the concussion crisis in sports. now, in the next hour,time going to discuss violence in sports with today's stream team. today the team will be joined by former nfl star, eddie george. that's coming up around 2:45 eastern. in the meantime, go to my blog or go to my facebook page and give me your input. are sports today too violent? if so, what do you think can be done to fix it? go to cnn.com/ali, go to facebook, or go to my twitter page. well, the next space shuttle launch is ...