are brave enough to want to show they are against him, and this clapping thing here, this is how they have been showing they are against him. predictably, this is what happens to the people who get caught. clapping is a form of protest, it started a month ago with flash mob style rallies. it s grown to involve thousands with 1700 people arrested so far including, not kidding, a one-armed man arrested for clapping. seriously. next up, russia is about to take advantage of what will soon be a monopoly on human space flight by jacking up prices for rocket rides into orbit. true or false? true. take a look at the space shuttle atlantis blasting off friday. the very last mission of the american space program. after atlantis lands safely back on earth in ten days, the only way our astronauts will be able to get back up space is paying for rides on russia s soyuz rockets.
we don t need a public sector austerity program on top of of it. i want to talk about something that happened today. it s happening as the republican primary is underway. earlier, gop candidate michele bachmann spoke on cnbc. take a listen, and we ll talk on the other side. does it strike you as the unemployment rate goes up, your chance of winning office also goes up? well, that could be. again, i hope so. my candidacy is one that i m presenting to be a job creator and to turn the economy around. high unemployment, that s a horrible thing to hope for, but isn t it true the worse the economy is under president obama, the better the chance a republican will defeat in him 2012? today we had that speech from the president in the rose garden where we had the would have, should have, could have. i hope bachmann will take that awful comment back for
beg begins, the program got the okay from richard nixon. the first orbitor was supposed to be called constitution, but star trek fans convinced it to be called the enterprise. george takei and nichelle nichols react next. and is there a deep, dark reason for rupert murdoch to close news of the world ?
audible diversity, the various accents that you heard. people from throughout this planet, who spoke with a different sound, different languages, and also the other diversity you couldn t see, the political diversity. russian on the starship enterprise. and the possibility of alien life, intelligent life. we were able to participate hi, nichelle, i envy you being there. i was busy being a ninja master here. it was amazing, george. yes, it was. but the diversity coming together, and we were able to participate in that program. we felt very privileged and very much a part of the nasa program, and we re very sorry to see it coming to an end. however, you know, the private sector is going to take it on, but all great exploration has
been done with the private-public partnership, and it takes some imagineer to set a seemingly impossible goal way up there, then it takes the tinkerers and the inventers to achieve that. that s what jean did with star trek and many people involved with nasa were inspired to go into it. we need to talk about the next chapter, miles, i want to bring you into the conversation, because you re a brilliant journalist, our space savant, i think it s safe to say that. nice to share tv time with an old friend. give us an idea, what s the best guess of the future of the american space program. it s been so part of our american narrative, is the private sector really the answer now? well, let s talk about the