to the space station. captain mark kelly joins us. thank you for being here. good to be here. i can t get over, one half second before launch how often does that happen when something just stops? it s happened with the space shuttle before. in the case of the space shuttle, it could be a month delay to replace an engine. with sparksx, they might be able to swap this engine out f. they do that, they could do it from a couple of days at the pad. do you think that s safe, though? i know a lot of people were questioning that rapid turnover. more were suggesting like you, where it would take more like a month to do? they re not going to do anything that s not safe. this is a company that has done things differently. the idea is ultimately to lower the cost and increase the access for people and cargo to get to space.
vaulted to the top and that was chris christie. we know what our top tier is. so let s move on to that. this is now mitt romney s momentment don t count out rick perry just yet. when romney heads to tallahassee this afternoon, he ll be greeted by a trifecta. all three future speakers of the house are endorsing him. yeah, the state of florida has a bizarre way of doing the florida speakership. it is less democracy, more partying. here s what we still don t know. what will romney look like after millions of dollars of negative ads have been spent against him telling republican voters that he simply not a conservative? and rick perry is going to have the money to make those ads. we have the new fund-raising numbers from his campaign this morning. perry raised over $17 million in the third quarter, remember, he started in august. so he had a month delay for this. he s going to report just over $15 million in cash on hand. according to the campaign, perry had more than 22,000 donors, more t