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Through this transition? you're the second last shuttle flight, the final mission will take place just a few weeks down the road. any apprehension that in this period of transition something will be lost whether it's scientific discovery or just the great sense of adventure that is manned space flight? >> i don't think the adventure will be lost. i think what's always at risk is as we transition to a new program and a new vehicle there is going to be a period of time when americans aren't flying on u.s. space craft so that's a challenge. people leave, engineers and operations people will move ...

of important developments in the middle east and north africa. most of them troubling. the brutal regime in syria declared general amnesty today but human rights groups and the obama administration are quick to label it a sham. designed they say to distract attention from a bloody crackdown. in yemen, civil strife spread after a cease fire agreement between the government and opposition forces in the capital city collapsed. the regime of moammar gadhafi in libya defiantly today again vowed to hold power, rejecting the latest effort to broker a diplomatic solution to the civil war the...