good morning. it is thursday, september 15th. this is your a.m. wake-up call. i m carol costello. get ready for the president response to president obama s jobs bill. he and the rest of congress have had a few days to leaf through the jobs plan, the obama jobs plan. so now we ll just have to wait and see whether boehner picks a fight over the plan or offers an olive branch. president obama is already taking indirect swipes at congressional republican. listen to what he told the congressional hispanic caucus last night. if we re being honest, we know the real problem isn t the members of congress in this room. it s the members of congress that put party before country because they believe the only way to resolve our differences is to wait 14 months until the next election. i have news for them. the american people don t have the luxury of waiting 14 months. 14 months from now as in november 2012. probably a topic that dominated dinner conversation between two republican
shuttle launch. there they were, binoculars, cameras, they took the shot. from that causeway in florida they captured the shot of the shuttle actually going up in the air, the columbia as it made its way into history they watched it happen. they are selfconfessed space geeks. they decided they had to witness the last launch. they scored tickets and snapped another picture on exactly the same spot on the very same causeway, there it is 30 years later wearing nearly the same clothes. kenneth lives in new jersey, his son lives in new york. let s put them side-by-side. 30 years in the making the same causeway. look at that picture. that is the one that captured 550,000 different hits, i guess on flicker. they almost didn t make the second one, because they got from newark flying down, their flight was delayed five hours, when they got to orlando their rental car wasn t there. they eventually had to rent a
great to see you. great to be here, shepard. shepard: well, you know, it s a sad day for a lot of people in the vav, the vehicle assembly building and beyond, but an exciting day for those who would to this in a private way. tell us what s up. i think it s going to be an exciting day for everybody. transitions like this are hard, but coming up we have a lot of innovationing being unleash inse the private sector. we have fixed press contracts with the government, so we re protecting taxpayer money, and what all that is doing is enabling this new infrastructure in america with high-tech jobs and good opportunities for everyone. and in the future you ll see a whole space line industry kind of like what happened in the airline industry. shepard: tell us what you re able to accomplish and have been able to accomplish so far. because i know there are a lot of space geeks out there like me who want to hear about it. [laughter] yeah, it s been going on. at space x we ve built the
the commercial at the kennedy space center there singing some ride sally ride and sally being the first female up in space, but sorry to embarrass you, john. it is a bittersweet day, but tell us which shuttle is going where? well, enterprise which is a test shuttle is at the smithsonian. that will go to new york. and from new york at the intrepid museum. what happens then is that discovery will go to the smithsonian. endeavour is going out to california, to los angeles, and atlantis is staying here at the kennedy space center. that is where the four space shuttle orbiters are going to be going. brooke? obviously, it is a big deal for those of us who may be space geeks, because we want to go visit the space shuttles for these cities, d.c., l.a., new york, this means pretty good
we ve been listening to the president, bill nelson, the senator from the state of florida, very big nasa supporter, the president making it clear, despite what you read, he s far from dismantling the space program, instead he s ratcheting it up and making it modern. due hear that part of about going to the asteroid? one of mar s moons? spending millions and millions of dollars to upgrade it, operate along with private industry. to help nasa be bigger an better. the president remarking on the future of space travel in general and us space geeks are happy to hear it. missions in the past have defined the united states since the dawn of the cold war and helped us win it. president obama trying to convince the nasa folks sculpting the trips to the moon is in their best interest and will create thousands of jobs. his detractors said nasa is