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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," "gemini" 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 -- that forces us to employ russian workers to keep the soyuz flying so that we can get our people up to the...

Florida so people could step outside and see discovery leaving as they got to washington, d.c. ta took a couple of extra laps around the capit capitol. the space flight program has been so wrapped in the fabric of american pride. our leadership with space, the american public has had such a fascination with our program here and now we see that the heralded discovery going to go on display at the smithsonian. how fast are they going to have this ready for the public? >> i don't know. it is ready for the public now but i don't know what they are going to be doing there at the smithsonian. it was...