to fill the void. russia, china, india and japan, all throttle up as we wound down. the country that conquered space, now hitching rides into space. and leaving it to unmanned vehicles to do all the exploring on mars, past jupiter and saturn, and passing the outer reaches of the solar system itself. but the last man to walk on the moon said something was missing. what would a human being what would that difference be? because we can think in realtime. for the most part, the computer is only as smart as we make it. the irony, much of what we started on launch pads in florida has now been relegated to little more than tourist attractions. silent thunder to all of those lift-offs, now off, now gone, now silent.
to fill the void. russia, china, india and japan, all throttle up as we wound down. the country that conquered space, now hitching rides into space. and leaving it to unmanned vehicles to do all the exploring on mars, past jupiter and saturn, and passing the outer reaches of the solar system itself. but the last man to walk on the moon said something was missing. what would a human being what would that difference be? because we can think in realtime. for the most part, the computer is only as smart as we make it. the irony, much of what we started on launch pads in florida has now been relegated to little more than tourist attractions. silent thunder to all of those lift-offs, now off, now gone, now silent.
ingle. bill: let s go to space, shall we, fox news alert, waiting on this, the window opened at 9:00 a.m. eastern time and will continue to 12:30, but, nasa has just given the go-ahead for what appears to be the launch of the falcon-9 rocket in three minutes, a rocket with what is known as the dragon capsule on top. unmanned. it will lift off and the idea here is the to circle the earth three or four times and splash into the pacific and ultimately is a test flight for what could be future lift offs and missions to the international space station which would take the place of the space shuttle and literally bring the cargcargo astronauts the cosmonauts and everybody aboard 10:43 lift off and you are getting the audio, from the control there, making it sound like they are getting close on this, 10:43 it is supposed to go and represents the future in
our capacity, even for a short period of time, of getting people up. but that $6 billion says, we want to make things move forward. so i think that s a discussion not about, you know, people interpret the cancellation of a constellation program as we re not involved in space explo explorati exploration. that s not either shape or form. that s a program where i m not so sure it was good to harken back to the glory days of apollo. we have more stuff in front of us. of that s what we have. when we have women and underrepresented minorities, this it diversity of people involved with solutions to technical with science problems, then we re going to come up with better solutions, not only about how to get us into space, but, you know, about drugs, medicine, all of those kinds of issues. we certainly hope there s not too much of a drop-off, because we all enjoy seeing that space exploration and those lift-offs. you need to enjoy not just the lift-off, but what comes of the work and the re