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Moment no doubt in my mind. i don't mind the shuttle retiring. it is probably time to retire the shuttle. we have modified it over the last 30 years, and it is still the most remarkable flying machine by mankind, but it is time to move on and go to the next step. the disturbing part is that after the next launch in the end of june here of "atlantis" that is the last shuttle launch, but we are not phasing in the next manned space vehicle the orion program, because it has been put on delay. >> what do you think that this will mean for the space program? >> well, i think that we need to -- well, ...

The astronauts, somebody in the press corps coughed and they said, not around my astronauts. and you know, brooke, at one point before they all got together there, the president met with mark kelly separately and then he and the first lady and commander kelly walked down a corridor and went into another room where gabrielle giffords was. mark kelly briefing them on his wife's condition. four months ago she was almost killed in arizona in the shooting. and they also had a chance to go over to the orbiter processing facility and spent some time there, the first family, looking@lan tis and gettin...

Gained but with zabady there were questions about whether he withheld information about other plots and the documents say he offered, quote, a vast amount of information regarding al-qaeda personnel and operations and he's an admitted prayingal planner, to nassir and facilitator of international terrorists and their activities. what's important here is based on other summary, investigators felt that khalid shaikh mohammed, the self-described architect of 9/11 withheld information that might have supported that plot. the bottom line, we don't have a full picture but we're getting a more complet...

Thursday. i talked to kelly before this all happened, before the shooting, and he talked about how important it was to him back then to fly this mission. >> this is it. your last shuttle flight. >> flying in space is a very difficult thing to give up. i remember after my last flight thinking, well maybe this is the last time i'm going to do this. and you know, you get a couple months out and you're like, i really hope this is not the end of my flying in space career. then to have this opportunity again. i know when i get back from sts-134 from this last flight of "endeavour" i'll be thinking t...

Be someplace else. we don't know any of that. but it's certainly miraculous that she is going to be able to make it at all. you know, for awhile, carol, there was a question as to whether mark kelly was even going to fly this mission, because of his wife's condition. you know, i had an opportunity to sit down with mark back in october, before the incident ever happened, and he and i talked about just how difficult it is to give up space flight. this is it. your last shuttle flight. >> flying in space is a very difficult thing to give up. i remember after my last flight thinking, well, maybe th...