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Let's get a quick check with a "360" news and business bulletin with joe johns. joe? >> astronaut mark kelly, husband of congresswoman gabrielle giffords, said today he will command nasa's shuttle flight in april. kelly said his wife's extraordinary progress since she was shot in the head a month ago was a key factor in his decision giffords is undergoing intensive rehab in houston. a disappointing jobs report. the economy added just 36,000 jobs in january, short of expectations. meantime, the unemployment rate unexpectedly fell to 9%. heading into super bowl sunday weekend. sheets of ice ...

Welcome back. 12 minutes past the hour. astronaut mark kelsey a go for launch. kelly is married to congresswoman gabrielle giffords recovering at a rehabilitation clinic. speculation he might skip his mission but he says he and gabby are both ready to go. >> i have every intention that she'll be there for the launch. i have already talked to her doctors about it. so there should be -- there really shouldn't be any reason why she can't go to the launch. >> isn't that amazing? commander mark kelly will resume flight training monday for the space shuttle "endeavour's" specialed launch april 19t...

Airlifted to a local hospital. we can tell you, they are expected to survive. bill: breaking news right now, we're hearing that congresswoman gabrielle giffords' husband will fly on the shuttle mission set for april. mark kelly is a nasa astronaut, he's been by his wife also side since she was shot in the head last month, kelly said to be ready to fly on board the final shuttle flight of endeavor. there was a question as to whether or not he would do that. now it looks like it's a go. what will happen in cairo today? tens of thousands, back in the streets yet again, demanding president hosni...

Nasa is getting ready to launch its first set of identical twins into space. they won't go up together but they will be in space at the same time. mark, serving as commander of the final shuttle flight while scott will lead the international space station. twin astronauts mark and scott kelly join me now and, wow, mark, thank you for growing that mush tas mustache. the folks at nasa have trouble telling you apart. >> folks are less likely to confuse us. >> all right, scott, let's go back. when did you first think you'd want to be an astronaut and was it something the two of you had talked abou...

Same time together and it wasn't until later with the scheduling delays and such in the shuttle program that actually wound up being on the international space station at the same time. >> and, mark, you're going to serve, as we said, as commander of the final shuttle flight. help us put that into, the historical perspective of it is obvious, but some emotional perspective that this major program for nasa is coming to an end. >> you know, it's a little sad to see the space shuttle program come to an end. but the space shuttle was des n designed to build a space station and after the internatio...