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Astronauts versus astronauts. buzz aldren lining himself with the white house. he'll be on our show today. neil armstrong, first man on the moon, was critical saying the way the president has budgeted for nasa, it's set america up for immediamediocrity. i understand it because shuttle flights are going away, something that -- the president didn't make that decision. that was decided a long time ago. our astronauts have to get a ride on the russian shuttle to get up to the space station. the president will talk about that later today in florida. >> thanks a lot. in mexico city, greatly apprecia...

There around kennedy space center. however there are still several thousand more who are likely to lose their jobs. also the president wants to modernize kennedy space center and revamp the orion crew capsule. what they were initially going to do was shut that down and now they'll use it as an emergency vehicle to save crews from the international space station in an emergency and also deal with the deep space rockets and speed up the development of that and have more shuttle flights in the long run over years to come, but in the short term, there's a lot of fear there as you saw in that packa...

Jump-starting new industries with privatizing some of these operations as they noted and also wants to modernize kennedy space center. by doing that, the white house claims that they'll save about 2,000 jobs that were going to be mothballed, basically layoffs that were going to be coming. nevertheless, despite these changes that are proposed, there are several thousand people at kennedy space center who are still facing likely layoffs. the plan is also going to have a revamping of the orien system and basically rather than this going up into space on its own, it's going to be sort of recused a...

He will retire from the supreme court sometime during barack obama's presidency. that would, of course, give obama the chance to maintain the court's idealogiccal balance. arlen specter told "fox news sunday" that a nomination fight would cause gridlock at the senate. well, the top white house economic advisor says putting people back to work is "a preoccupation" for the administration. they said the jobless trend has turned but there is still a long way to go to recover and criticized republicans for holding up an extension of unemployment benefits. the shuttle "discovery" has the all clear c...

Seen cost thousands of dollars as opposed to millions of dollars and they are built right here rolling off the assembly line in seem my valley, california by a company called arrow viroment, thousands have been shipped to the u.s. department of defense. hard to tell how many are already cruising the skies over the middle east. >> less money more safety. love it. thanks, casey. >> you bet. >> one the few remaining missions for space shuttle program. now the shuttle is cleared for early morning launch headed for the international space station. the discovery is loaded with tons of equipment. upd...