Station. you ve got the robotic arm, the antenna for communications. you can see in the payload bay. added one of the modules to the space station. all the systems up and down. you can walk all around it. it s phenomenal. the view is great but it s also fantastic for the kids to get interactive. they can dock with the space station. they can land the space shuttle. they can fly the robotic arm, see what it s like in the cockpit. that is where we are. this is the commander seat. i understand you re letting me sit here because this is a mock-up. otherwise i don t think you would trust me. what are we looking at? what is this? all the controls and displays. electronic flight displays, all the systems and guidance for how you come back in to land, the heads up display where you can see your guidance when you re coming in to land. this controls roll pitch. you turn the computers on up here. you talk to the computers, to the keyboards here, the
The issue. neil degrasse tyson, the director of the hayden planetarium. he as a new book out space chronicles facing the ultimate frontier. paper back. paper back edition. what i was struck by. now that meteors are hitting, don t stay struck, what you were surprised by. what i was struck or surprised by was that we all know that china is making a push and even india but canada is the new space nation. what s this about? consider, first that canada played a major role in the space shuttle program. they are the arm that lives inside the payload bay of the space shuttle called the canada arm. the flag is proudly displayed. so can can canada has fought
New book out space chronicles facing the ultimate frontier. thanks for having me. what i was struck by is let alone china not that the meteors are hitting, don t say struck. surprised by what i was struck by, what i was surprised by is that we all know china is making a big push and even india, but canada is the new space nation. what s this about? well, consider, first, canada played a major role in the space shuttle program. the arm that lives inside the payload bay of the space shuttle is called the canada arm. the flag is proudly displayed. every time this arm comes out to deploy a satellite, to retrieve a satellite, to assemble parts of the space station. so, canada has thought long and hard about space and they had many astronauts as part of this program to go up. so, we shouldn t be surprised
congressman arthur davis says he s voting for mitt romney this time around. he s going to tell us why. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. the cold war is long over, but a chill has settled in in the relations right now. the key shoous, moscow s support in the regime for syria. it may help fuel a brutal crackdown. president obama is addressing that issue headon at the g-20 summit in mexico. dan lothian is joining us right now. dan, what s the latest on this tension between the u.s. and russia? the two leaders met for about two hours. president obama saying the meeting was candid and thorough. i have to tell you, you take a look at the body language, and it gives you a sense of what the meeting was like. they did not sit close together. president obama was leaning towards president putin. president putin was leaning away. you didn t see any smiles at the end of the remarks. they had a quick handshake. sort of half a smile. president obama patting him briefly on
With you, thanks. jenna: captain altman, a former nasa shuttle pilot. captain, as we take in the scenes in virginia tell us why these two shuttles are so significant to our country s history and the history of space exploration? basically the enter prize was the test vehicle that paved the way for the shuttle flights to come. it proved we could take a vehicle, a reusable vehicle, and land it, have pilots fly it to a precision touchdown on a runway. discovery then took that concept and put it to work. it was the workhorse of the shuttle program. flying all those missions. doing space science on orbit and also the ultimate assembly task, putting a space station together in pieces that were flown up in the payload bay of all the orbiters. it was just an amazing challenge engineering wise to build a space station the sigh we have today and we couldn t have done it without the space shuttle