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There are a lot of feelings here that are mostly sad. this is first shuttle to actually retire. it is discovery, as i said, the workhorse. and the realization is here today to thousands of space employees that this is the end. and i think that the biggest problem that the space workers have here is we don't have -- we being the united states of america, we do not have a spacecraft that can fly american astronauts to replace it. they are retiring it before we have another one to fly. >> as i understand it, museums are in a bidding war for the shutt shuttles. don't tell anybody else but

When they resisted the macho images. maybe kids are better off looking up to heros of the space program. today space workers finished up vital repairs on a broken cooling system. look at the cute cubs. actually, they're at the center of a controversy. they're ligers. a cross breeding of a male lion and a female tiger. the mom and dad cats grew up together and had these cubs yesterday. but it's illegal to cross breed rare and protected animals like these. i am way beyond my time limit. we're way passed. but they're cute. right? yeah. that's our show for this monday. i'm chris jansing. "the dyla...

They don't come in here, they'll probably go and land in california if they can because they've already extended the mission one day and they're running out of days up there. but they'll get them back. if they have to land them or even if they have to land in california, have to land them in new mexico. as you know, i want to say something -- we were talking about breaking news, but i want to say something, alex. you and i were on the other day when president obama was flying here to the space center. >> yep. >> reporter: it had been advertised that he was coming to talk to the space workers. ...

And the program could languish. i don't necessarily think that's what's going to happen, but there is a public sense and a fear amongst many space workers that doom is upon us. >> robert, one last one here. thank you, first of all, for cutting through a lot of the noise around this and taking us back to history to when the program was devised in 2004. what do you expect to hear from the president later today? how is the president re-imagining constellation or this public/private partnership moving forward? >> look, the big program. there are a lot of people who talk about the space program and...

>> reporter: yes. and the first thing he did, tamron, was he went to launch pad number 40. now, that's where they're going to launch falcon 9. this is the commercial group the president wants to get flying. they do have a rocket on the pad out there getting it ready to go and the president did get to talk to some of the space workers there and that was good because he will be speaking here shortly to a very closed group and the rest of the space workers will be as we are watching on tv. but as you said, here is general charlie boland, former shuttle astronaut. you see senior senator bill nelso...