said the surgery went well. we expect a full recovery it is everybody s hope and belief that due to robert s high motivation he will be ready for the 2013 season. griffin reinjured his knee during sunday s playoff loss at seattle. well, with space shuttles long gone we have been relying on the russians to put our snawfts in space. but that may be changing. nasa dropping some big bucks to make space taxis a reality. plus, a scary scene as a man with scissors takes a little boy hostage. the whole thing caught on surveillance cameras, including the ending and that s ahead. what are you doing?
else can come by and do space taxis to orbit or to the moon and private access. that is a sign of what they should be doing in the future, which is keep pushing new technologies, keep the funding high enough to keep the right people working there. that s a key, isn t it, jim? i mean, it was kind of a cool thing. i mean, when you got into space engineering, i mean, if you told somebody you worked at nasa or for heaven s sake, you were an astronaut, it was a really cool job. is the problem now that space travel and nasa isn t so cool anymore? how do you keep that moving forward? it s a problem around the world. the u.s. does not have that problem. the best and brightest still want to come work on the space program, either for nasa or
call. i m carol costello joining you live this morning from new york. herman cain begins this week fighting off allegations of inappropriate behavior. political reports, at least two women accuse cain of sexually suggestive behavior when he was president of the national restaurant association in the 1990s. here s how he responded when confronted about those allegations. i m not going to comment about two people you won t tell me who they are. that s like negotiating i m not going to comment on that, because i think that that is one of those kinds of things that that was the last question. last question. have you ever been accused of sexual harassment? cain s campaign has also released this statement, it reads in part, since washington establishment critics haven t had much luck in attacking mr. cain s ideas about how to fix the economy and create jobs they are trying to attack him in any way they can, end quote. more than 2 million people in the northeast are
out to space while the commercial venders, four of them being funded and others are working on it, working on very simple space taxis, they re simple, they re in the cheap, though, it still costs money to get into space. but it will be easier and it will allow access not just for nasa astronauts but for people going to other places in space such as private facilities. okay. private facilities, and beyond, what about places like mars or some sort of a station we ve built there? i mean, would that ever happen in our lifetime or beyond? let s take good care of ourselves and live long, it could happen. but the main barrier we re covering through flights, interplanetary flights, is life support, keeping people alive that equipment that lasts long enough. this is the equipment being tested on the space station and it couldn t have been done anywhere else. it can t be done on of earth because of gravity and it can t be done on the way to the other planets, because if it broke
tarix, would be on the line if this thing goes through if the programs are scrubbed? several thousand jobs are actually on the line. both with the ending of the shuttle program later this year as well as those that were invested in the program overall. nasa was cutting several hundred jobs over the last few years with the shuttle program ending, but they had something like 4,000 jobs with one contractor alone that are going to be done gone with the shuttle program ending. which is crushing news to a lot of these people who are relying, of course, on the jobs for their livelihoods, but at the same time, we heard that nasa administrator charlie bolden came out and say this will give us a different kind of road map for the future of the space industry. and some optimistic views, the fact that obama said he ll allocate an additional $6 billion to develop what they are calling space taxis.