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Reality we have done it. humans on the moon. and coming home to tell the whole world about it. there would be celebrations, presidential greetings and parades. so many parades. over the years, all the schools, streets, parks, highways named after the astronauts, including just today, nasa renaming kennedy space center operations in honor of one neil armstrong. 45 years. you know it almost makes you forget what happened three years ago. three years this very day, july 21st, 2011. nasa's final shuttle landing, atlantis and four astronaut crew gliding home safely after a 30 day journey. it would ...

43 passengers kept on board a plane for more than three hours. the cause, a bug bite. "newsroom" begins right now. good morning to you. i'm carol costello. you are bere its final flight. the granddaddy of a program. it was the next wave of a space race that had americans holding their breath. a craft so futuristic and exciting president ford told nasa to name it after captain kirk's ship from the legendary show "star trek." >> space, the final frontier. these are the voyages of the starship "enterprise." its five-year mission to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life. >> ...

and jason carroll is out watching in new york. jason, why don't we start with you. what have you been able to see, feel, hear? give us an understanding of the landscape. >> reporter: what do i hear now? i think it's the staples singers singing "i'll take you there." i think that's what they are playing now. and the shuttle took a lot of astronauts to a lot of different places. but the "enterprise" never made it to space. but still exciting nonetheless. exciting for the hundreds of invited guests who are here at jfk. we'll have speakers from nasa, speakers from the air and space museu...

Returning to exploration, but the manner in which we did that didn't allow the six years from 2004 until 2010 to come up with a replacement to the shuttle. if we retired it at that point. and for 30 years we have been watching the shuttle land on a runway and it appeared to me that the previous program was very well satisfied with going back to the days of mercury and "apollo" landing in the ocean. i don't think that's u.s. leadership. i think we need to do things like not have a gap in our space flight program that allow -- that forces us to employ russian workers so that we can get our peopl...

The manner in which we did that didn't allow the six years from 2004 until 2010 to come up with a replacement. to the shuttle, if we retired it at that point. and for 30 years, we have been watching the shuttle land on a runway, and it appeared to me that the previous program was very well satisfied with going back to the days of mercury, gemny and apollo and landing in the ocean. again, i don't think that's u.s. leadership. i think we need to do things like not have a gap in our space flight program that allows he owe that forces us to employ russian workers to keep the soyuz flying so that w...