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Beautiful pictures of the space shuttle discovery. richard trunk, as we look at these pictures, what a sight and what an event it must have been today in washington, d.c. >> we were all on top of our building. employees all around the city were out. the plane came by three or four times. it was exceptional. now it is going to its final resting place. >> it made a nice trip up this eastern sea board heading over georgia and after a two or three hour trip spending about 30 minutes around the washington, d.c. area and then finally making its way out to dulles airport where it will land and then t...

An amazing homecoming for the legendary shuttle program. the "discovery" is on the ground outside of d.c. at dulles after landing there earlier today. what a majestic sight it was, buzzing the capital. the final destination, the smithsonian air and space museum. and live from florida, jay, what a sight today. >> it sure was. it took off this morning just a little after sunrise, flew over the launch pad, over the space coast. then headed for dulles. took it about two and a half hours to get up there and then it flew over, as you said, over the capital. that was the final thought for the "discov...

there in florida? >> yep. i'm here in florida, yep. >> this is your beat for many, many years as you watch this, as you're kind of going over in your head how many times you have you have interviewed the crews, when's going through your mind? what are you thinking about as we start to watch the craft land? >> you know, i think like so many people here think and of course, you know, my opinion is certainly somewhat skewed that, you know, it had a lot of flights left in them. all of the vehicles could have flown more except for planning that didn't go perhaps the way it should have. yo...

♪ . bill: they will get back together. martha: i love it. all right, well the future of our space program, speaking of that, was a big hot topic at last night's debate in florida which of course is the home to the kennedy space center. so it gets a lot of attention in the florida discussion. but nasa has seen its extensive budget cuts happen lately with the shuttle fleet's retirement. that was not lost on mitt romney. this is what he said. >> we have a president that does not have a mission or vision for nasa. because of that people on the space coast are suffering and florida is suffering a...

There. that was an air traffic control system messup. >> shepard: sure was and a big mess on jetblue. russia has launched first manned mission to the international space station. since nasa retired the shuttle fleet at least. >> lift off of the soyus. head toward the international space station for rendezvous. >> it blasted off before midnight eastern time overnight carrying one american and two russian crew members. russia had delayed the launch after unmanned so iuz rocket crashed back in auger. at the time at the warned they may have to temporarily abandon the station. the so soyuz expected...