does nasa believe that a consensus is needed? nasa. spent would you like me to answer the international question or the nasa question? >> a nasa question. >> well, i think not being with nasa of course today, as i look at nasa from the outside, i think that they in fact do feel frustrated by the disconnect between the white house and congress. they of course would like to have some clear direction and support. but i think that if you ask them as representatives of the administration, i think they would say well, we have a direction. we have a policy, and we're trying to execute that policy as best we know how. the problem is, is i think the policy, taken in civil space exploration is disconnected from technical and political realities. i completely agree with you that the space station is the most vital immediate thing we have to be focused on, but then what we have to be looking, what comes after the space station. this is where i think our international partners feel a bit left out because mars and asteroid our extreme the challenge,

. -- and err naughtics for nasa. -- and aeronautics for nasa. one thing we did was to reduce infrastructure and personnel cost. we didn't go into detail of whether that was an option one would choose or how to do it. thank you very much, sir. >> thank you very much. gentlemen -- the gentleman has yielded back. i want to thank everyone. thank you for your time, preparation, travel and presentation. and all the staffs here, i want to thank these wonderful staffs that make this world go and i'd like to ask unanimous consent that as we close today, that we close in memory of the life of gabrielle girlfriend, honor her life and remember the death of neil armstrong for a moment of silence. >> amen. we are closed. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> new jersey governor chris christie said today in his state of the state address that thousands of eem are stiss displaced from their home and he asked for a full, clean, sandy aid bill in congress which the house is scheduled to

nasa and its space mission. and aeronautics budget that can no longer support full-scale demonstration flights, no clearly articulated vision for human exploration program beyond international space station. the international space station is number one. we've got to get there first and have some security there. with regard to human space flight, during the national debate, we merged guiding principles, resulting in the nasa authorization acts of 2005 and 2008. there was a consensus on the overall strategic direction. that consensus was short-lived when the administration abruptly canceled submission of a fy-2011 budget. no one got everything they wanted. for lack of a clear consensus, resulted in no effective way to prioritize the many competing demands. it has been clear over the last few budget cycles that there are fundamental disagreements. congress insisted and the presidential compromise included but -- a heavy lift rocket development program, a general lack of consensus on goals and destinations has sent

chair to get funding for nasa is important but especially investment in nasa creates jobs. if we want to increase funding nasa, we have to speed up the nation's economic recovery and i have a couple bills that i believe provide a very cost-effective way to strengthen our economic competitiveness and that would be to invest in the city that symbolizes both u.s. manufacturing and has the assets to help make the country's economic capabilities stronger and that is the city of detroit. the city of detroit is currently in fiscal constraints facing its own fiscal cliff. i will be soon introducing a bill that will allow the city to refinance its considerable debt at a low interest-rate saving money and likely stabilizing the city's financial situation. furthermore, i am proposing to eliminate capital gains tax and investment made in that city as a way to spur investment. in the city of detroit we have an extraordinary high number of people who've lost hope because they are not working. yet throughout the metropolitan detroit region, we have many employers who have thousands of job

kennedy space center. >> in april 1964 nasa launched project gemini. >> the gemini was started and it was a two-man spacecraft. the gemini program was specifically to show that we could do a rendezvous and dock. >> in order to get to the moon you had to have capability of two weeks in space. you had to beke able to rendezvous. you had to be able to do eva, get outside the spacecraft in a spacesuit, and you had to have a guided re-entry. we practiced all of those missions in gemini. so p gemini was an extremely important part of the lunar program. >> onim june 3rd, 1965 on gemini 4, astronaut edward white was the first american to perform an eva, extra vehicular activity, or spacewalk. >> i feel like a million dollars. >> america was still playing catch up, however. soviet cosmonaut performed a spacewalk three months earlier. the big prize was still up there in the night sky, and the gemini missions were moving forward. each one providing nasa with more information necessary for that ultimate quest. >> we are on our way, frank. >> in december of 1965 gemini 7 rendezvoused with gemini 6

nasa is really screwed up. they send these robots and they land them out in the desert, they don't land any of them downtown. [laughter] and the kids and me included are saying, why do i want to go to mars? it looks just like the mojave desert. looks just like where i spent the last 46 years. next question, yes, sir? >> could you comment on the commercial space flight contractors that have been contracted by the federal government to replace the shuttle? and could you comment on where the space force of the future, the commercial ones, will be located? >> space ports of the future? well, for suborbital manned space flight there's a plan at least with the system that you see on this flight that can use any commercial airplane -- airport with a 12,000-foot runway. and branson is considering doing it in an isolated place in #. i tried to talk him into doing it in a place where you can see the ocean and something worth looking at. his plan is to put space ports in four, five or six different countries. he wants to

a what about the $15 million going to nasa? nasa wasn't in the path of the storm. it wasn't impacted. that is another one people are kind of hung up on, saying, when you have people again who are out of their homes, who are, you know, trying to figure out how to repair where they live and get their belongings back in order you're giving 15 million to nasa? >> that was in the path of the storm. one is a nasa facility in virginia which was in the path of the storm. there was another facility that was in the path of the storm. when you hear nasa, you think florida, you think texas. but there are other nasa facilities that were hit and hurt during this storm. melissa: yeah. >> we have been told by chairman rogers and ranking member nita lowey, that they quote scrubbed it and took out unrelated items. melissa: is that how they got down to the nine billion? it feels like going from $60 billion bill to this quick bill that is $9 billion that could actually go to the people, we have a lot of sympathy for if we need the money we saved ourselves $51 billion on stuff we didn'

nasa says facilities not leased by the end of this year may be demolished. that would make one heck of a, what, loft condo? >> just a party pad. [ laughter ] >> there we go. on the water? >>> heys skins are off to the playoffs. some fans are -- some cowboys fans are having a hard time coping with sunday's loss. take a look. there you go. >> well, that fan was so upset he decided his tony romo jersey had to go. and started firing, and -- there you go. there goes tony romo's jersey. to smithereens as they say. tony romo threw three interceptions in the loss to the skins on sunday. it's the second year in a row the cowboys have missed the playoffs by losing the last game of the season. >>> we'll have continuing coverage of the impending battle with seattle, coming up at 5:00, pat collins is roaming the streets searching for seahawks fans. you can watch the news leading into the playoffs on our home page. we do want to add, you shouldn't be blowing up anything. it's dangerous. >> whatever happened to number 10 -- >> it was texas. >> we're blowing up the cold air

the esa will participate in developing the rocket system for nasa's orion spacecraft. engineers plan to first launch an unmanned prototype on a fly-by of the moon in 2017. they will then work on enhancing the technology for a longer distance mission. u.s. president barack obama announced a plan for a manned mission to mars by the 2030s. nasa and the european space agency have suggested the possibility of cooperating in that project as well. >>> people in the united arab emirates are worrying about the future of their most lucrative export, the uae is one of the world's leading oil producers, but leaders are seeing a shortage on the horizon. the strain on the supply is growing so now this fossil fuel-driven nation is considering alternatives. nhk world's sho bepu has more from the capital, abu dabe. >> reporter: an exhibition is underway focusing on water supplies and renewable energy. the crown prince of the united arab emirates tells the participants that his country realizes that its most valuable natural resource has a limit. >> translator: the united air rak emirat

nasa launched a new high-tech satellite into orbit from cape canaveral, florida. the new equipment will improve communication with the international space station and relay images captured by the hubble space telescope. >>> a quilt displaying a photograph of a lynched african-american woman is generating strong emotions with visitors at an indianapolis library. >> i get people out here all different kinds of colors, races and creed treating me bad because of stuff like this. >> i know it can be painful for some people. i know some people are angry. some people cry. >> the quilt is part of a collection of pieces that will be displayed through february and march. >>> controversy is brewing after school officials fired starter pistols during an emergency drill outside of chicago. some students were alarmed by the exercise meant to prepare teachers and pupils for mass shootings. >> i don't think we need to make it normal to have a simulated shooting in schools because then it just makes it more normal for society to accept these things. >>> and had high school student

it was the ninth hottest year on earth, based on records going back to 1880, according to nasa. the trend of rising temperatures always brings up a debate over climate change, but it's been four years since congress tried to tackle the issue. darren gersh reports from washington. >> reporter: it was not just the united staá?:háhat sweltered through last summer. nasa confirms 2012 was one of the hottest years on record for the entire globe. 2012 was one degree warmer than normal for the 20th century, and, compared to records dating back to 1880, the globe has warmed by 1.4 degrees. nasa scientists also believe the warming trend is accelerating, just as analysts see the political will for climate change hitting new lows. but that doesn't mean the issue has gone away; it's just taking a different form. for example, the house or representatives debated relief from superstorm sandy today. energy analyst kevin book expects governments will increasingly be forced to spend money to mitigate or adapt to climate change. >> with every storm, with every flood, we're getting closer and clo

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it was the ninth hottest year on earth, based on records going back to 1880, according to nasa. the trend of rising temperatures always brings up a debate over climate change, but it's been four years since congress tried to tackle the issue. darren gersh reports from washington. >> reporter: it was not just the united staá?:háhat sweltered through last summer. nasa confirms 2012 was one of the hottest years on record for the entire globe. 2012 was one degree warmer than normal for the 20th century, and, compared to records dating back to 1880, the globe has warmed by 1.4 degrees. nasa scientists also believe the warming trend is accelerating, just as analysts see the political will for climate change hitting new lows. but that doesn't mean the issue has gone away; it's just taking a different form. for example, the house or representatives debated relief from superstorm sandy today. energy analyst kevin book expects governments will increasingly be forced to spend moy toitigate or adapt to clmatehange. >> with every storm, with every flood, we're getting closer and closer to

. >> nasa has launched a new communication satellite tonight. the unmanned atlas rocket blasted off from cape canaveral. the launch is part of the organization's tracking and data relay satellite program. nasa uses the orbiting network to communicate with the astronauts living on the international space station. the satellites also relays all the images taken by the >> jacqueline: you probably noticed those '60s. 67 in the san mateo. the 60s in pleasanton. for the overnight hours we will stay clear. temperatures to near the coast will be a bit chilly. even warmer tomorrow with that warmer weather sticking around. and this area of high pressure on short that is keeping the storm to the north. not much rainfall and warmer temperatures. chilly away from the coast. vallejo, fairfield and also livermore. and we are seeing warmer conditions. the coast. with upper 60's and 70's. the south bay. 67 degrees in san jose. low mid-60s and concord and 63 degrees in walnut creek. a comparable 65 degrees in downtown san francisco. they range of low-mid upper 60

. >> nasa and nascar. strange -- >> yes. you wouldn't expect those two to be sharing space. >> there you go. making the most of it. 5:21. time for weather & traffic on the 1s. tom kierein here with the cold forecast. what's going on? >>> you need your warmest winter coat over several layers to stay comfortable if you're going to be outside for any length of time this morning. there's live view of the city camera showing the washington monument, jefferson memorial under a mostly cloudy sky. a little bit of the moon trying to show through. we have a few thin spots in the overcast to the west. cloud cover will continue to head east and thin out as the day progresses. right now around the region, it is cold most of the region. down into the low and mid 20s. that includes prince george's county, arlington, fairfax, montgomery county, and all of northern virginia, most of maryland. in fact, near 20 degrees farther north and west. frederick county, washington county, panhandle into allegheny county. here's how thing are looking, st

what is the budget, 17, $18 billion a year for nasa? >> one-half of 1%. >> are these cutbacks at the moment, in the recession to be continue to go forward with money to nasa and continue to go out there? >> people are looking out on the last 40 years when they say ever since apollo, the space program has been a jobs program. how many jobs can we get in your district, in your state? the space shuttle passed by one vote because the laws passed all around the country. we had people working in different places. all i can tell you some stories about the politics that get involved in our space program. and it's bring home the bacon, and the bacon is jobs because jobs get votes and votes keep a congressman or senator in office. >> that body explore space? some people argue folks here on earth can't afford their medication, mortgage, their meals and maybe money should go into the infrastructure here. why explore a vast frontier? what do we gain by this knowledge? >> the one word i would use ase leadership. when i grew up, there was no doubt in

nasa has put out a for rent sign. >> nasa's looking like i've got a huge house here, i can't use all of it. i can't live in all of it myself. so let's rent some out. >> reporter: for rent now presumably by a private space exploration company is famed launchpad 39a from where man first went to the moon. also available, space insided vehicle assembly building, one of the largest in the country. originally used to build saturn rockets. nascar has already rented the shuttle landing strip to do time trials. boeing is using a hangar here to build a commercial spaceship. other deals are still being discussed, but the demand is not as great as nasa had hoped. >> there's a lot of uncertainty in the commercial space industry, in the nasa space industry. so there's things have not necessarily evolved as quickly as we would have liked. >> reporter: the big question facing nasa, congress, and the white house is what will be the next mission for the u.s. space program. perhaps a return to the moon or a manned flight to mars. >> our program achieved what it set tout do, and the hardware is being re

nasa as part of the bay area air quality management district to conduct the test. interstate 680 is among the areas the aircraft fly over revving air samples along the way. the study will also improve forecasting a pollution of the experts determine where particles are moving and where they are concentrated. >> nasa is launching a communications satellite the unmanned atlas rocket blasted off from cape canaveral. the launch is part of the agency's tracking and data relay satellite program as the use of your dad worked a minutmass'n network to communicate with the astronauts living on the international space station. the satellite also relays of the images taken by the >> good morning and welcome back to the kron 4 morning news a hot spot three lanes locking the chp reports are closures in the area. due to a damaged big rig. caltran is headed to the thing. a lot of what degree in the lanes. chp says this could last until six or 7:00 this morning. we will have full details in drive times with kron fours george just a bit. >> still ahead on the kron 4 morning news a s

. >> nasa mars rovers have wheels they may not work on this. >> if you tried a wheel system in low gravity you could flip it over and you could just completely lose control. >> rather than rolling, the students are making hedge hogs tumble and hop using spinning motors sealed inside. they have started with this two dimensional model of how it will work in gravity. >> i let it go and slowly it drifts back down. as if this were the ground. >> the next prototype is in three dimensions and researchers use a small model of the giant shipping crane at the port of oakland to stimulate microgravity on a miniature model. >> apply little force i can move this entire system. >> the partners at nasa are working on a full-scale model to study hopping on different surfaces. we looked at doing this on concrete surfaces and on sandy surfaces and rocky surfaces. >> they can carry cameras and microscopes and send findings to an orbiting satellite to learn where it came from and whether humans can land there. >> it could be key to proving or disproving on how the universe began. >> at stanford for abc7 news.

this is video of meteors caught by nasa cameras earlier this morning. the shower happens every year when the earth passes through a stream of dust created by an asteroid that may have once been a comet. you got that you will? >> yes. >> asteroid could be a comet. >> what are the odds this we could see it tonight? >> better than last night. we had clouds last night. people are wondering how long is this ding-dang cold blast of air going last? pejorative terms. it will last another three days. milder during the weekend. cold mornings into next week. a bit milder by perhaps the mid 40s to near 50 degrees on tuesday and into wednesday as we get toward the middle part of next week. a dry pattern. now your traffic this morning. alexis davies, how's it looking? >>> we're seeing volume building on the inner loop and the outer loop. the outer loop delays start at 95 southbound as you're coming on to the beltway. no incidents being reported. just a lot of volume. back to you. >> thank you. >>> it's is "news4 today." thank you for starting your day with us. >> the

it's something nasa is working on withstand ford university. "today in the bay's" business and tech reporter scott budman got a preview of what it might someday do. >> reporter: we cheered along with nasa when the curiosity rover landed on mars but imagine a future where, when we get to the red planet or one of its moons, we can explore it much faster with a new rover being called the hedgehog, designed to work in the low gravity martian atmosphere. >> for that we take full advantage of the fact that we have very little gravity and this way we can hop on the surface and cover a lot of distance without having to roll over the rocks as we do traditionally with the mars rovers. >> reporter: a joint project between nasa's jet propulsion lab and stanford university, the hedgehog may resemble a silicon valley special effect, but it is destined to be about the most mobile thing in the universe. >> to enable it not only to hop and take measurements but also to tumble its way to designated locations. >> the theory is the more we know about mars the fast

. $15 million for nasa facilities, though nasa itself has called damage minimal. all of the provisions were stripped from the bill that the house approved today. it was pork free. what do you make of this? >> as far as provisions being in there in the first place, unfortunately, that's how sausages are made in washington, d.c. let's remember, we're talking about an appropriation that is some 10,000 million dollars. you cited less than $200 million out of the $10,000 million questionable. it was stripped out. even if it wasn't stripped out. even if that was the price you would pay for greasing the skids of government to get needed aid to people, i would argue it is necessary that you must do that. it's unfortunate, but we must do that. you want to have a discussion about flood insurance or what fema does, how it does it, how effectively it does it, that's fine. but you don't do it when have you thousands of people in desperate need. you don't hold those people hostage in a sense to your ideological predispositions, that's an ugly, thuggish way to do business. >> ba

nasa is about to change that. how you can own a piece of the kennedy space shenter launch pad. as we head to break another look at the tonight show with jay leno. >>> it has been a tough week for nfl coaches. 7 nfl head coaches got fired on monday. that's a lot of jobs open. the most job openings we have had in the country in the last four years. >> welcome back. the clashes on capitol hill for super storm sandy victims may be celted. we have an exact time frame on when the house will vote. long beach new york one of the hardest hit areas that is where wnyw reporter is live for us. teresa? >> good morning heather good morning to you. it has been 66 days. hard to believe 66 days since hurricane sandy hits. 66 days since this storm totally and completely ripped lives apart here and businesses shattered homes really did so much damage. people here need congress' help and yet it has been 66 days and no federal relief. they are hoping the initial sandy relief if federal aid was going to comic request and get their lives back on track. it was stalled in the house earlier this week. n

it's nasa, our friends at nasa. joe sent this to me. if you followed me on twitter, you would have had this an hour and a half ago. oh, that's cool. let's talk about temps. they are falling very quickly, in fact, 33 downtown, a lot of folks in the 20s, dew point up a bit, 21, pressure down, 30.19 and winds still south, southwest at 7, but they will increase. in fact, see the colors here, yellows and oranges, those are winds over 15 miles per hour working their way eastward, frederick, winchester, about 15 miles per hour, wind in the mountains 20 to 25. we'll see breezy conditions develop late tonight. look at the temps, though, 32 in rockville, 27 in reston, 29 in sterling, 30 in fairfax, even 30 down in alexandria old town, 32 in college park, 29 in andrews and 31 down toward waldorf. so winds will pick up, clear out tonight, no worries there. breezy tonight and tomorrow and still sort of cold tomorrow, primarily because of those breezes and a chilly dry weekend, really a very nice weekend, about all we could hope for for early january

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nasa launching a satellite into orbit from florida. this new equipment will improve communication with the international space station and relay images captured about it hubble space telescope. >>> a quilt displaying a photograph of a lynched african-american woman is generating strong emotions from visitors at an indianapolis library. >> i get people here all different kinds of races and color and creed treating me bad because of stuff like this. >> i know it can be painful for some people. i know some people are angry. some people cry. >> the quilt is a part of a collection of piece that's will be displayed through february and march. >>> controversials brewing after starter pistols during an emergency drill were fired in chicago. some students were alarmed by the exercise noent prepare teach aernz pupils from mass shootings. >> i don't think we need to have it normal to have simulated shootings in school. then it makes it more normal for society to accept these types of things. >>> and high school students are defending their teache

. $15 million for nasa facilities though nasa itself has called damage from the hurricane minimal. all of those provisions were stripped from the bill the house approved today. i want to underscore that. it was pork-free. ron reagan, what do you make of this? >> well, as far as those provisions being in there in the first place, unfortunately, that's how sausages are made in washington, d.c. let's remember, we're talking about an appropriation that is some 10,000 million dollars. you cited less than $200 million out of that that is questionable. it was stripped out, but even if it wasn't stripped out, even if that was the price you pay for greasing the skids of government to get needed aid to people, i would argue that it is necessary, that you must do that. it's unfortunate, but we must do that. now, look, if you want to have a discussion about flood insurance in this country or what fema does or how it does it or how effectively it does it, that's fine. but you don't do it when you have thousands of people in desperate need. you don't hold those people hostage in a sense to your

signs on the internet i am following every day several sites or from the bad fourth university from nasa follow the possibility that the gang gets its for their next flare can be deadly for our civilization it's correlated with the movement of the planets on one line and that is the reason why i am so sure that it will happen on the twenty first of december two thousand and twelve. this amateur astronomer claims to be the first to have understood the mysteries of the mayan calendar that one of the people a percent of the people until a few years ago they thought it would be a new world a better life in so one in something is a theory but i found that on that day the magnetic field of the sun will reverse and that will create the discipline got us through. an inversion of the sun's magnetic poles the consequence of which would be fatal for our civilization. to have the south pole you have a wave from particles with south and polarity and the south pole pulls away the south pole. then you will see that in a quarter of the earth will start turning the other way around you expect then away f

david demaret, a biologist at nasa ames described it this way. the first few months of the mission they have these huge charts on the wall's engineering rover with all these dimensions. we would have some geometric question. well, can we see this? can we reach that? is this rock going to be in the shade or will it be in the sun? we would go and stand and we would stare at those charts. over overtime, we stopped doing it so much because we began to gain a sense of -- that is projecting yourself into the rover. it's just an amazing capability of the human mind that you can sort of retool yourself. so acting through the robots, the control, the scientist look around, they manipulate materials and the move over the landscape. they may pretend to be a rover, crouching down and gesturing with an arm to better imagine what is reachable. and through the eyeglasses and special cameras, they can directly see iron minerals in the rocks. they are transformed in a way to -- on mars. now that is all pretty different from doing field science on earth and this i

it was the ninth hottest year on earth, based on records going back to 1880, according to nasa. the trend of rising temperatures always brings up a debate over climate change, but it's been four years since congress tried to tackle the issue. darren gersh reports from washington. >> reporter: it was not just the united staá?:háhat sweltered through last summer. nasaonfirms 2012 was one of the hottest years on record for the entire globe. 2012 was one degree warmer than normal for the 20th century, and, compared to records dating back to 1880, the globe has warmed by 1.4 degrees. nasa scientists also believe the warming trend is accelerating, just as analysts see the political will for climate change hitting new lows. but that doesn't mean the issue has gone away; it's just taking a different form. for example, the house or representatives debated relief from superstorm sandy today. ergy analyst kevibook expects governments will increasingly be forced to spend money to mitigate or adapt to climate change. >> with every storm, with every flood, we're getting closer and closer to

reliably taking people to and from space in human history there is no other vehicle that comes close nasa uses this vehicle itself to get to space so while there is always room for improvement and while i'm sure and highly confident that the russian space industry is is going to great lengths to to to make sure those things don't happen again spaceflight is inherently and they are an activity that is risky and so the risk is managed but it's never going to be perfect at the end of the day i think there's not many people in the world who would want to go to space who wouldn't feel comfortable flying on the soyuz the key technological breakthrough that we need is rapid and cost effective reusability like flying in an airplane when you land at moscow airport where you landed new york airport they can turn the plane around in a couple of hours and leave actually less than that this is the problem you have what you're saying to me immediately i think shuttle there is no shuttle you can't reuse soyuz we're going the wrong way. so the shuttle was a vehicle that was incredibly high performing it

reliably taking people to and from space in human history there is no other vehicle that comes close nasa uses this vehicle itself to get to space so while there is always room for improvement and while i'm sure and highly confident that the russian space industry is is going to great lengths to to to make sure those things don't happen again spaceflight is inherently and they are an activity that is risky and so the risk is managed but it's never going to be perfect at the end of the day i think there's not many people in the world who would want to go to space who wouldn't feel comfortable flying on the soyuz the key technological breakthrough that we need is rapid and cost effective reusability like flying in an airplane when you land at moscow airport or you landed new york airport they can turn the plane around in a couple of hours and leave actually less than that this is the problem what you're saying to me immediately i think opus shuttle there is no shuttle you can't reuse soyuz we're going the wrong way. so the shuttle was a vehicle that was incredibly high performing it was an

reliably taking people to and from space in human history there is no other vehicle that comes close nasa uses this vehicle itself to get to space so while there is always room for improvement and while i'm sure and highly confident that the russian space industry is is going to great lengths to to to make sure those things don't happen again spaceflight is inherently and they are an activity that is risky and so the risk is managed but it's never going to be perfect at the end of the day i think there's not many people in the world who would want to go to space who wouldn't feel comfortable flying on the soyuz the key technological breakthrough that we need is rapid and cost effective reusability like flying in an airplane when you land at moscow airport or you landed new york airport they can turn the plane around in a couple of hours and leave actually less than that this is the problem you have what you're saying to me immediately i think of his shuttle there is no shuttle you can't reuse soyuz we're going the wrong way. so the shuttle was a vehicle that was incredibly high performing

cape canaveral from nasa and they say they are working on it but they're really want they really want to make significant steps in actually making sure that everything is prepared and once they actually launch it is going to be absolutely top notch program where you say the moon has vast mineral resources to be mined but we'll have to pick up the story another time we're going to thank you very much for it we're running out of time here on r.t. but very quickly i can tell you until last year the giant fall sharing service mega upload was one of the most popular on the web millions exchanging digital content for free it's founded now though is getting around the way because the u.s. has made him shut down the web site and he's resident in new york asking the public their stance on the morality of internet fall sharing. kim dotcom just launched his new file sharing service mega he says by using it you're saying yes to internet freedom is file sharing the future of the internet this week let's talk about that have you ever stolen a movie or music off the internet i plead the fifth i'll t

this is nasa's 11th time sending a tracking and data relay satellite into space. the first was launched in 1983. >>> lawyers for the florida neighborhood watch volunteer charged with killing trayvon martin say their client is broke and needs donations. george zimmerman claims he acted in self-defense when he shot 17-year-old trayvon martin. it happened inside a gated community in sanford, florida, last february. zimmerman's lawyers are trying to get june's trial date pushed back to november. his attorney put up a request on line asking for public donations. he wants to raise $30,000 a month for zimmerman's defense. so far his attorneys have spent more than $300,000 on fees and living expenses for zimmerman. >>> and this morning, a gun control task force now has ideas from people of newtown, connecticut, on curbing violence. hundreds packed an auditorium to offer their suggestions. it was the first public hearing in newtown since 26 people were killed at sandy hook elementary in december. the task force was created in response to that tragedy. speakers included fam

reliably taking people to and from space in human history there is no other vehicle that comes close nasa uses this vehicle itself to get to space so while there is always room for improvement and while i'm sure and highly confident that the russian space industry is is going to great lengths to to to make sure those things don't happen again spaceflight is inherently making an activity that is risky and so the risk is managed but it's never going to be perfect at the end of the day i think there's not many people in the world who would want to go to space who wouldn't feel comfortable flying on the soyuz the key technological breakthrough that we need is rapid and cost effective reusability like flying in an airplane when you land at moscow airport or you landed new york airport they can turn the plane around in a couple of hours and leave actually less than that this is the problem you have what you're saying to me immediately i think of the shuttle there is no shuttle you can't reuse soyuz we're going the wrong way. so the shuttle was a vehicle that was incredibly high performing it wa

reliably taking people to and from space in human history there is no other vehicle that comes close nasa uses this vehicle itself to get to space so while there is always room for improvement and while i'm sure and highly confident that the russian space industry is is going to great lengths to to to make sure those things don't happen again spaceflight is inherently and they are an activity that is risky and so the risk is managed but it's never going to be perfect at the end of the day i think there's not many people in the world who would want to go to space who wouldn't feel comfortable flying on the soyuz the key technological breakthrough that we need is rapid and cost effective reusability like flying in an airplane when you land at moscow airport or you landed new york airport they can turn the plane around in a couple of hours and leave actually less than that this is the problem what you're saying to me immediately i think of his shuttle there is no shuttle you can't reuse soyuz we're going the wrong way. so the shuttle was a vehicle that was incredibly high performing it was a

of course nasa retired the shuttle fleet. since then american astronauts are hitched rides on russian space craft. phil keating with the rest are of this story on our florida newsroom tonight. hey, phil. >> hey, shep. we all wait for astronauts to fly up to the space station on board u.s. space craft. space x announcing today it's going to use its own test pilots to prove its capsule is safe for humans. two cargo runs to the space station so far. two more scheduled this year. blue origin successfully tested pm 2 vehicle in october. all done still with no humans on board. but rocket science, no gimme. 8 miles high in august failed. only new aircraft that can glide back to earth shuttle style did this kerry test in colorado last year safe landing it hopes to test with humans by 2016. and the fourth company commercial company boeing dropped its space capsule with three parachutes last year to a safe landing all on target for full test flights in 2016. >> what that says is how important this program is to our country and to our i

we cheered along with nasa when the curiosity rover landed on mars. but imagine a few toor where when we get to the red planet we can explore it much faster with a new rover being called the hedge hog designed to work in the low gravity martian atmosphere. >> advantage of the fact we have very little gravity and this is where we can hop and carry a lot of distance without having to roll over as we do traditionally with the mars rover. >> reporter: a joint project between nasa's jet propulsion lab and stanford university, the hedge hog may resemble a special effect but it is destined to be about the most mobile thing in the universuniverse. >> only to hop but also to tumble. >> reporter: the more we know about mars the faster we or something can visit mapping the martian surface with the hedge hog rover is likely five to ten years away. even the project itself has people thinking about what's next. >> the possibility of dreaming of the future as in the case of a hedge who go and build a prototype is very exciting. >> reporter: and maybe a futuristic wa

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. >>> nasa says make us an offer. coming up, the space agency's going out here is an extreme form of intervention. a chinese father was worried that his son was spending too much time online so a dad hired down virtual hitmen to hunt down and kill his son in the games. the 23-year-old son is unemployed. his dad says he wants him to get a job. >>> five people were injured in new jersey when a packed escalator kicked into reverse. it was going up and suddenly stopped and sped back ward. cell phone video shows people piling up at the bottom of the escalator. others tried to jump over the side to escape the growing pile. the station saw extensive from superstorm sandy in october and they believe the malfunction may have been an electrical fault that lingered after the storm. now, to what would make the most epic craigslist ad ever. nasa is selling on leasing out facilities used by its space program. >> america is not going to stop exploring. >> the last shuttle flight was in july 2011 when atlantis made its final touchdow

he works at nasa ames in mountain view. he's been launching things into space since he was a kid. the sheriff in his hometown in wisconsin would block off the roads so he could light off his rockets many, many years ago. >> a lot of power in that town. thanks a lot. >> sounds like fun. >> not this next story. >> this is crazy. getting married up in the air. sounds romantic. floating along the clouds. it's cool. until something goes very wrong. >> san diego couple decided to exchange their vows in a hot air balloon. lovely until that happened. seconds later sudden gust of wind dragged the newlyweds off course. >> you're husband and wife and we kiss and it's beautiful and then we just kept trying to land and couldn't and next thing you know we're crashing into a fence and fell on a tree and i said jesus about 4,000 times. >> she's so in love. it's beautiful. we crashed but it's so beautiful. that balloon did crash and bounce and hit hard in the cluster of trees. eventually look at where it landed. on a house. one person suffered a minor injury and despite what they call a hiccup, th

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nasa wants the spacecraft to carry astronauts to astroids and mars. a test flight is planned for next year. >>> president obama expects it to be a good year for companies hiring. cheryl casone joins us with more. >> some of the viewers are getting jobs through you. congrats to you and to them. >> i know some of them don't want to be on air or have their names used on air but congratulations for those of you e-mailing me getting jobs. we have more jobs available. if you think 20 percent unemployment is good that's fine. we have this company. you mentioned the president in your introduction. the medical device tags a lot of these companies have been laying off. this is a rare find for us. they do monitoring devices to monitor heart rates things like that. they have sales jobs of any critical care. engineers. 106 jobs. salary range pretty darn nice. 60,000 to 325,000. they have been hiring mostly in california. now they are looking to expand the company, massachusetts and texas. >> up to 325,000. it's called masimo 500. >> these used to be and des. these

if you are, all you have to do is give nasa a call. have a lot more where that came from apparently. the orlando sentinel is reporting that nasa is quietly putting, maybe not so quietly anymore, most of the kennedy space center facilities in florida up for sale or lease. now that the space shuttle program is over, federal funding for maintenance will dry up bit end of the year. which means machinery will start to break down. it will become unusable and that is something that nasa does not want to happen. so chad myers is here. i'm verklempt. the idea of having launchpad 39-a in my backyard is super cool. >> how would you like to have the backyard? the whole space cost. they realized they don't have the money to tear it down. and they don't have the money to keep it up. so at some point in time you're right there on the ocean it going to rust, will all fall apart. they hope that they get enough money from leases to be able to keep it running. >> okay. >> welcome back to the mother ship. i haven't seen you for a month. >> nice to see you