that is what we are going to do. sean: a broken promise that won t be foregotten any time soon. sean: joining me are two of the former united space alliance employees, terry white and tony dees. welcome to the program. thank you for being with us. thank you. sean: the president talked about we are going to grow the economy and protect jobs and continue supporting nasa and continue funding the success of the shuttle program. did he do that? no, he did not. we knew the shuttle was ending but constellation was supposed to come online and he canceled the constellation program. you are not working.and i au would give your friend a job and you said you would love to but there is not enough work? there is not work.
do. sean: a broken promise that won t be foregotten any time soon. sean: joining me are two of the former united space alliance employees, terry white and tony dees. welcome to the program. thank you for being with us. thank you. sean: the president talked about we are going to grow the economy and protect jobs and continue supporting nasa and continue funding the success of the shuttle program. did he do that? no, he did not. we knew the shuttle was ending but constellation was supposed to come online and he canceled the constellation program. you are not working. you are and i asked if you would give your friend a job and you said you would love to but there is not enough work? there is not work.
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. we did go where no man had gone before and today we take you to washington where just minutes from now the enterprise will take off for new york city. let s start in miami. john zarrella kicks off our coverage. i m ready for some spectacular pictures. no question about it. this ought to be sensational. it was supposed to be named the constitution but with the power of the trekies they got the
there in florida? yep. i m here in florida, yep. this is your beat for many, many years as you watch this, as you re kind of going over in your head how many times you have you have interviewed the crews, when s going through your mind? what are you thinking about as we start to watch the craft land? you know, i think like so many people here think and of course, you know, my opinion is certainly somewhat skewed that, you know, it had a lot of flights left in them. all of the vehicles could have flown more except for planning that didn t go perhaps the way it should have. you know, nasa deciding to go away from the space shuttles and go to the constellation program and then killed by the curre administration and now a gap and shuttle could be flying if it wasn t for some political decisions made that a lot of people probably wish and i know they wish could be taken back today. that s the sad point. a lot of people out of work and a lot of people are even at this very ha
bold and to dream big and that s exactly what we do. we are going to continue to be the world s leader in finding out what are the capabilities out there that we haven t even discovered yet. martha: former astronaut and fox news contributor tom jones, offer of planetology joins me. good to see you. thank you for having me on. martha: great to have you. we talked about this plan years ago and this was always the idea that after the shuttle was finished, they would work on a rocket that would really go further than that, and that would go to mars as well. is this what was always envisioned? i think it s a restart of the effort that was underway under the constellation program that president obama canceled in 2009. that always had a big cargo rocket to help people get to the moon, now this cargo rocket has been sort of transforward and reimagined so that it can help astronauts get beyond the space station out to a nearby asteroid, maybe to the moon and eventually to