if you look at it this wake the space shuttle program and apool low program come out roof lit same, $200 billion, $170 billion, 11 apollo flight, 137 shuttle flights. earlier the gemini and the mercury programs costing less money here. one of the questions people ask, what do we get for this? computer technology, a number of things, electronic banking advances, scheduling software out of the shuttle program. consumer home recreation, a lot of different things perfected on shuttle missions you can find around your home. tracking this last mission for us, mission control in houston, cnn's ed lavandera, how is it going? >> great, john, rather a fascinating place to catch this glimpse of this moment in history so it has been a fascinating day for us. >> what can you see right there as you are tracking mission control? give us a tour. >> reporter: sure. sure. all right. if you look behind me here, just right behind me is where the flight director sits, and that is the person that they have teams that will rotate here. this will be manned 24/47 during the course of this mission. and what's fas

. >>> the 30-year-old space shuttle program may not end exactly the way nasa had expected. rain is in the forecast and it is threatening to delay the launch of the shuttle "atlantis." >> here is a live picture of atlantis. a lightning strike near the launchpad caused a brief flurry of concern. nasa engineers determined the spaceship is a-ok. joel brown has more on the shuttle program which first took off in 1981. >> launch teams are not working issues right now. >> space shuttle "atlantis" is getting fueled up and ready to go. >> countdown has resumed. >> reporter: this morning, nasa moved ahead with its final launch despite a bleak forecast. >> i wish i had better weather for you but we'll have a 70% chance due to the showers and thunderstorms we expect in the area. >> heavy rain pounded the region thursday in a lightning strike near the launchpad sparked concern before they determined there was no damage. they'll haul food and supplies to the international space station to keep it stocked through 2012. >> rain or shine, hundreds of thousands of people are expected to be he

the end of the space shuttle program. f nasa or the end of sending humans into space. joining me now is garrett reeseman who flew on two shuttle missions. he just left nasa and now working on commercial space flight with space ex. we say it a lot and talk about it. space flight isn't finished. commercial flight like space ex. who is watching and has no idea what i'm talking about, what is space ex? >> it's a company founded in 2002 by ilan musk. he founded paypal. so after coming off that success, his real ambitions and desires was to advance the space. he created that nine years ago. we developed a series of rockets since then and culminating in the falcon 9 rocket we have launched now two times and went very well. both flights were very successful and top of the second one was a dragon spacecraft. it orbited the earth two times last december and splashed down in the pacific ocean and we came the first company to orbit a spacecraft and bring it back from space. >> we are looking at pictures of it. first of all, we should

eastern with a final flight of the thirty-year shuttle program. the 12 day mission to the international space station. following the takeoff mass officials including the nasa space shuttle launch director mike leinbach briefed reporters on the final mission. this is 50 minutes. >> good afternoon everybody and welcome to a very joyous day. the sts-135 post-launch news conference after the successful launch of space shuttle atlantis today. before a near record crowds in this -- space coast area. believe we have 1535 news media here in attendance and it looks like we crammed as many of you folks in the room as we possibly could today. thank you very much for coming. we would like to begin things with by introducing members of our panel and then we will have a opening comments and be happy to take your questions. to my immediate left is mr. william gerstenmaier nasa associate administrator for space operations. robert cabana kennedy space center director. mike moses, space shuttle program launch integration manager and the chairman of the free lunch mi

bush seven and a half years ago when he decided to end the shuttle program. actually the plan was to end it last year it in turns out it's ending now and you know they're going to be a lot of people that that are out of work and that's unfortunate and i'm sorry for that situation but unfortunately this is a process that nasa has deferred for just about forty years thirty or forty years which is the process of making space sustainable the shuttle was never going to be sustainable that's why it got canceled now the fact that there's a a gap. you know that was set in motion as i say seven and a half years ago the time to debate that cancellation was then not now but i'm hopeful that some of these companies like space x. which has already tested the capsule for taking people to and from the space station although in an unmanned version they they're still working on manned rating it that they will in fact have these things up and running in the next couple years or maybe three years it also depends on how quickly nasa can work through the regulatory issues but you

and again, to the shuttle program. of all, thank you for this outstanding ride that we have had for the last 30 years aboard a united states space shuttle. you guys are absolutely the best. thank you. [applause] >> that morning, atlantis. we wish you a successful mission and the safe return home. jew ♪ ♪ ♪ >> 134 before that. spent atlantis using, -- copy, good config. >> flying high over the atlantic ocean off the west coast of africa. we are just seconds away from this course correction burn as we watch over the shoulders of chris ferguson and doug hurley up on the flight deck of atlantis. you can see very clearly i can like jolt of those big orbiter maneuvering system engines. and courtesy of space station cameras, our first year of the shuttle atlantis. >> good burn, atlantis. >> copy. >> the sequential still video view of the international space station. >> atlantis, station on the big loop. we have you in site. >> excellent. we will be there soon. >> atlantis houston, you are go for the rpm. go to proceed inside 6

as the space shuttle program comes to a close, many mom-and- pop shops fear what is ahead. businesses sure to take a hit. as for markets, investors had another session in the green. a couple of smaller jobs report showing some encouraging news. we have cells from the target and limited brands. college market says nearly nine in 10 students still use a laptop. companies pulling out all the stops. if you buy an apple mac book, you can get a gift card to the mac app stores. a computer costing will $700 or more. are discounts. half of backpacks and the rebate for free highlighters. consumers may spend more than $55 billion on back-to-school shopping. i'm jane king reporting for wbal-tv 11 news. back to you. >> the latest release of the harry potter franchise film and not expected to next week. i understand the media has begun in the london. >> lots of harry potter and fans. the series is coming to a close. pre orders of tickets on the u.s. are on fire. the books were big sellers. the final chapter of the film series expected to rake in big bucks. >> thank you. 5:23. six to nine

tanks for the last flight of the atlantis marks the end of the space shuttle era for nasa which has decided to shut down the program and let the private sector firms take over and find ways to get astronauts up into space there you can see the shuttle clock a minute twenty. and we're going to keep with these live pictures until the launch happens snow and suppression waters settle program has been going on for about thirty years now and it's definitely an american tradition it's going to be. a hard hit for a lot of people living in the local area like we've been reporting here on our team much of the local community is based around the shuttle program all the support staff need in order to get these miraculous machines off the ground into space. on oxygen that provide fuel in greenbelt or close to. the miners forty seconds handing off to atlantis is computers at t. minus thirty one. united states the five thirty three cargo plane but you're in the thirty second mark a good year. soon we will see the shuttle begin to warm up read a lot sequencer. three partners. now they stop the clock if they had talked earlier abo

it is the last ever fight for the shuttle program. ur astronauts are on board carrying food and other supplies to the international space station. over the last 30 years, u.s. spspe shuttles have flown 135 missions. they became a powerful symbol of that country's technological achievements and a testament to the human spirit of discovery and invention. an estimated 1 million people lined the florida coast to watch the final takeoff. >> atlantis was on the launch pad th jt 31 seconds left when the countdown was stopped. the glitch was picked and all systems were go for the last flight. >> it is the final lift off. >> the clouds parted and it was a picture-perfect liftoff. >> we got to with this something really special and amazing. sometimes i talk about the hardware, but i am really talking about the teams and people that supported the launch that just occurred. >> the flight signals the end of three decades of the space shuttle. the launch of the last mission also provides memories of the setbacks the program suffered. the explosion o

today especially i'm sad, sad to see the shuttle program go. i'm sad for the people at kennedy and houston who will be losing their jobs, very talented people, with technical engineering skills, and hopefully the country can follow on the shuttle with something new and exciting to take us to new destinations. that's my hope today. >> but that's a part of -- yeah. and that is the hope of so many. there's a big controversy, as you mentioned. i wanted to point out you that were part of the first flight of "discovery," the new joint russia-america space program. and tom and i have been talking about this new relationship, if you will, that we will have, that our astronauts will be shuttled by the russians until we get to that what's next phase here. and we had a great conversation with jay barbree, a veteran space correspondent-b the heavy lift rockets and so many are putting their hopes in that that is the next step here because without these heavy lift rockets you can't get anyone to the asteroid or even mars, which is apparently a part of this ad

and time to launch a new career for many of those involved in the shuttle program. >>> we're back. it's "world business today." american's space shuttle "atlantis" has been cleared for landing at the kennedy space center in florida. and it's been given the okay to fire its rockets and leave orbit. and it's due to touch down about an hour from now. it will end nasa's 30-year shuttle program. it will leave thousands of aerospace workers unemployed. >> reporter: stephanie estrada is lucky. she knows it. >> every, single step i've taken, it was timely. and it was the right move. and for some reason, it's worked out. >> reporter: stephanie is a lawyer. she wears suits. she wore them before, too. but those were called bunny suits. nasa speak for the garb you put on working on spacecraft. stephanie saw it coming. the shuttle program was ending. >> i was willing to do anything, whether it be technology-related. law-related. working at mcdonald's. i didn't care. >> reporter: while still with nasa, she went tonight school, got her law degree and left the space agency before it left her. by th

again shown today their resolve and determination, and unfortunately the decision to end the shuttle program was made in 2004 in the bush administration, and the obama administration, we have added the two last shuttle flights that were not funded by president bush. president obama cares so much about the human space flight program, and we are focused on decreasing the period of otime when we wouldn't have been able to have astronauts launching, not only from here at the space coast, but on the international space station. the previous program had the international space station going into the pacific ocean in fife year, and we have extended the international space station for ten years, and we are reducing the gap in human space travel from human soil, and not only expanding, but accelerating what will follow, american spaceships with united states flags on them launching right here on the east coast. >> and what is next? there is always a plan, and something on the table, a destination, a vehicle, something that we could wrap our minds around. >> and we have that. the international space s

because i think albert would have thought it was worth it. >> three, two, one, touchdown. >> the shuttle program came back from "challenger" and came back then from "columbia," lost reentering the atmosphere. debris was scattered across north texas. and although tarnished, the shuttle has been america's only way to put humans in space. >> i defy anybody -- and i will argue with my "apollo" comrades -- the accomplishments, the achievements, the record of performance, the spin-offs, the capabilities that have been developed, what we did in shuttle over 30 years dwarf what was done in the "apollo" era. >> we can build spacecraft. we can build hardware. we can build boosters. but there's no goal. there's no mission. we are wandering in the desert in space today, period. >> so why now? why call it quits now? from the time of its inception 40 years ago, until the shuttles are retired, the program will have cost the american taxpayers just shy of $115 billion. that's less than $4 billion a year. a drop, if that, in the federal budget. still, the problem is money. >> there's just not enough money at nas

i think a lot of it is because i think ell would have thought it was worth it. >> the shuttle program came back from challenger and came back again after columbia. lost re-entering the atmosphere, debris was scattered across north texas. and although tarnished, the shuttle has been america's only way to put humans in space. >> i defy anybody -- and i will argue with my apollo comrades -- the accomplishments, the achievements, the record of performance, the spinoffs, the capabilities that have been developed. what we did in shuttle 30 years dwarfed what was done in the apollo era. >> we can build spacecraft. we can build hardware. we can build boosters. but there's no goal, no mission. we are wandering in the desert in space today. period. >> so why now? why call it quits now? from the time of its inception 40 years ago until the shuttles are retired, the program will have cost the american taxpayers just shy of $115 billion. that's less than $4 billion a year. a drop, if that, in the federal budget. still, the problem is money. >> there's just not enough money in nasa to continue the

that was the last and final mission for the nasa space shuttle program. of people gathered at kennedy space center early this morning to say goodbye to the shuttle into the program. the shuttle will remain at the space center on display. >> the astronauts of space shuttle atlantis are about to talk about their mission. we are getting live pictures into the news right now. >> blonde director been, mike plan box that we may not go to california, we have to come back to florida, fortunately the weather cooperated and we had a nice landing. to my left, sandy, she was the chief loadmaster. she has all the heavy stuff. she did everything from robotics to taking care of us on the debt. she was a tremendous asset to this group. >> or the depths the mission was incredibly busy. we knew that when we started. and we received a ton of help from the space station crew. with their health and the great work that these guys did, we were able to get all of the cargo transferred. pocket it was great to be on the international space station again. it is a magical, wonderful

i think a lot of it is because i think ell would have thought it was worth it. >> the shuttle program came back from challenging and came back again after columbia. lost re-entering the atmosphere, debris was scattered across north texas. and although tarnished, the shuttle has been america's only way to put humans in space. >> i defy anybody -- and i will argue with my apollo comrades -- the accomplishments, the achievements, the record of performance, the spinoffs, the cape capabilities that have been developed. what we did in shuttle 30 years dwarfed what was done in the apollo era. >> we can build spacecraft. we can build half hardware. we can build boosters. but there's no goal, no mission. we are wandering in the desert in space today. period. >> so why now? why call it quits now? from the time of its inception 40 years ago until the shuttles are retired, the program will have cost the american taxpayers just shy of $115 billion. that's less than $4 billion a year. a drop, if that, in the federal budget. still, the problem is money. >> there's just not enough money in nasa to co

so people here in this room able to enjoy these final moments of the space shuttle program. econd from the left, that is tony zacacchi, the flight director, communicating constantly with the space shuttle "atlantis" crew. you can kind of sense the emotion of this moment weighing on him. a little while ago, they were talking about going through some of the final checks. and before he went around the room and got all that, he said, "i never thought this moment would ever come." so here, ali, participate preparing for the end of the space shuttle mission. >> 9:15, according to nasa's clock. thank you very much. going to be another extremely hot day when these astronauts get out of that spacepaceship. a deadly heat wave has been blamed for 22 deaths across the country. the high temperatures are affecting 141 million people in more than 30 u.s. states. there are heat watches, warnings, or advisories. rob marciano live in atlanta. rob, what's it looking like? >> the temperatures that will feel like they're up over 110 to 120 degrees. we saw record-breaking amounts of humidity the p

this marks the end up not just of the shuttle program, but the era of space exploration for america. he shuttle had its triumphs and disasters. it was supposed to be a new era of space travel that would make travel to space cheapen commonplace. at $1 billion per launch. it was not cheap. it was dangerous. there was the challenger disaster where the shuttle exploded on launch. then the columbia disaster when the space shuttle exploded on reentry to the atmosphere. the shuttle program did have its triumphs. it sent the hubble space telescope into orbit, which brought us the wonders of the universe. and of course, the construction of the international space station. but that was not enough to save the shuttle program. and so, after the launch of atlantis, the fleet will be moored. is far from clear what will take its place and when it will be ready. >> you have been watching newsday from the bbc. >> just a quick reminder of our main story. britain's best-selling sunday newspaper, "the news of the world"will be closed after the sunday edition. thank you for watching. good bye for now. >>

that knowledge will then go into building the next vehicle. >> reporter: with the loss of the shuttle program, tens of thousands of workers across the country are losing their jobs, many in florida. until commercial rockets are ready, american will rely on the russian space program to carry astronauts into space. but the head of nasa insists america is not giving up its leadership. >> some of my best friends died flying on the shuttle. and i'm not about to let human space flight go away on my watch. >> reporter: meanwhile, the burden of the final mission falls on commander chris ferguson. >> i hope that i paint nasa in the finest light, that we pull off the cleanest mission that is possible. because we want to finish on the strongest note. >> reporter: a strong close as america turns the page in space exploration. tom costello, nbc news, washington. >>> when we come back, when did the united states declare its independence? the answer, believe it or not, is a surprise to many americans. >>> president obama returned to the white house from camp david this afternoon as he prepares for a budget

shuttle. r t. the other side of the story that we often talk about some mixed feelings there among those involved in this thirty year program is get some thoughts on the a space shuttle final flight of the close of the program with william l. anderson he's an associate professor of economics frostburg state university of maryland very good evening to you from moscow thanks play with this let me sum up for us if you will how big of an impact on the community the end of the space shuttle is really going to have well it's a good question i though i think it obviously is going to have an effect on the people who are losing their jobs and and on the local economy there in florida boy . the other side of it is it does free up resources to go other places and i think over time believe it or not this is going to be a net plus because over the last several years we have treated the shuttle the law the space program as a pure jobs program for smart people and when you do that be you going to lose something what about the look on effect to the broader economy the u.s. economy as a whole is that going to have an effect on that in any w

. >>> the space shuttle program has been the backbone of u.s. space flights. today, folks all around the world paused to watch the flight today. that includes several at the maryland science center. >> reporter: the shuttle atlantis sits on a launch pad in florida. hundreds of miles away, the maryland science center holds a viewing party. >> this is the very last launch of shuttle program. it's been in existence for 30 years. that was the first shuttle. they've had their ups and downs and this is historic. >> reporter: a standing room only crowd filled the rooms. each step of the process becomes a teachable moment. >> there are the astronauts, right there. >> reporter: the entitle is building -- the excitement is building and at 31 seconds, the clock stops. >> the thing that disappointed me was that the clock froze. that was disappointing. >> reporter: what happened? >> i don't know? report it turned into a thing of beauty. [ cheers and applause ] >> it was like, cool. >> reporter: he shared this moment with his granddaughter. >> maybe they'll look back and kno

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the 30-year shuttle program has had successes and tragedy. overy delivered the hubble telescope to space. and 36 shuttle missions helped build and supply the space station but two shuttles and their crews were lost, challenger in 1986 and columbia in 2003. >> in the history of this program, we have lost one going up and one coming down. and it is a tremendously risky endeavour. >> reporter: after the shuttle program ends, nasa plans to use american-made commercial spacecraft to carry cargo and eventually crew to the international space station and beyond. joel, cbs news, kennedy space center. >>> he is arguably america's most notorious serial killer and now we're learning he may have committed murders in sonoma county, as well. ted bundy confessed to 30 homicides before his execution in 1989. but the real number of victims remains unknown. the "san francisco chronicle" is reporting in its online edition, new information about the cold cases in wine country where bundy is now considered a suspect. >>> a serial murder suspect accused of killing

the shuttle program ends with no clear successor. >> liftoff!uttle had its critics, it was expensive, there were astronauts. but there was nothing like it in the world. americans conceived it. when tragedy struck, americans pressed ahead without fire. to a generation, man in space seemed as american as the constellation in our flag. but today marked the end of the heroic age of space flight when we all claimed ownership. the last shuttle left the earth, drawing a bright, burning line in the sky, the signature of people who dare to dream. and that's the "cbs evening "cbg news." i'm scott pelley at the kennedy space center. for all of us as cbs news all around the world, good night.

>> telly's piece outlines the impact in florida and the space shuttle program is critically importantntry. there's a national security component to the space program and economic and commercial applications developed in space so i think the impact of it will be felt across the country including in texas and other parts of the country where there are contractors and here's what i tell people back home displaced by this. the sooner we can get a replacement program in place the better. right now we don't have anything to replace the shuttle and that's why these folks are hurting. >> the manned space flight is vital to u.s. interests. how big of a concern is this for you, the fact there is no next step right now? >> i think we should all be concerned. from now on we have to pay the russians $50 million an astronaut to send americans to the space station and we have no plans to have anything in place to replace the shuttle any time before 2016. for washington to be ashamed it took so long to deal with this and something's not in place but it's important for america moving forward because c

space shuttle program.ommander chris ferguson put it best this morning saying the 30- year shuttle program changed the way people view the world and the universe. >>> 6:57. a quick check of weather. kristy tells us it is national junk food day. >> it is a perfect day to get to the fair. get the double dose, twinkies and fried bugs an attraction this year, as well. san francisco gorgeous weather in the bay area, tomorrow a cooldown over the weekend in the low 90s. so dipping down a little bit and then we'll dip down even more as we make our way into next workweek. hot one today. temperatures 90s inland. so take a cue from zoe head to the pool. i'm impressed by the dog's balance. this is a photo sent by a viewer. feel free to send us a photo if you would like at mypix@cbs5.com. so over to gianna now and see how the traffic is going. >> all right. we are going to go straight to mobile 5 cruising along 101 in san francisco. traffic nice not bad. in fact it's been a nice drive all morning long in and out of san

is cut 15%. >>> nasa ames at moffett field has long been an important part of america's space shuttle programthis morning, the research center will host a special press conference from space with the atlantis astronauts, who are of course in the last- ever shuttle mission. anser hassan joins us now from moffett field to explain what's going to be happening and it's getting exciting, anser. >> reporter: it is. that's right. light this engine one last time, famous last words last friday as space shuttle atlantis blasted off into space for its final mission. behind me a press conference is again a -- began a few minutes ago. we're talking live with the space shuttle crew and astronauts. joining me is jack boyd, with nasa ames since 1947. mr. boyd, good morning. your final thoughts on the final space mission. >> my final thoughts, it's a little sad but i think it's the beginning of a new era. we here at ames are particularly well focused to develop the technology to go further into space and to encourage young folks to go into math, science and engineering. >> reporter: is the united states makin

because i think al would have thought it was worth it. >> three, two, one, touchdown. >> the shuttle programame back from "challenger" and came back again after "columbia," lost re-entering the atmosphere. debris was scattered across north texas. and although tarnished, the shuttle has been america's only way to put humans in space. >> i defy anybody -- and i will argue with my "apollo" comrades -- the accomplishments, the achievements, the record of performance, the spin-offs, the capabilities that have been developed, what we did in shuttle over 30 years dwarf what was done in the "apollo" era. >> we can build spacecraft. we can build hardware. we can build boosters. but there's no goal. there's no mission. we are wandering in the desert in space today, period. >> so why now? why call it quits now? from the time of its inception 40 years ago, until the shuttles are retired, the program will have cost the american taxpayers just shy of $115 billion. that's less than $4 billion a year. a drop, if that, in the federal budget. still, the problem is money. >> there's just not enough money at na

amid-all the history, nasa's space shuttle program saw its darkest day january 28th, 1986, when seven astronauts lost their lives the challenger disintegrated shortly after launch it took nasa two and a half years to regroup after the disaster shuttle discovery carried the oldest person to space october 29th, 1998 when it lifted off with mercury astronaut united states senator john glen and yet another diesisser tragic loss of columbia, february 21st, 2003 the seven member crew was returning home when the or bitter broke up during reentry to earth it took almost three years before the next shuttle went into pace, in 2011, they had their last night. in new york, mary ann rafferty. >> tips how to deal with financial issues, the author of money why does it cause so many problems joins us in studio next. >>> i will take notes. >> a star studded line up last night we will take a listen when fox 5 morning news returns [ mr. connally ] i was paying too much with cable. it was crazy! paying so much you want better quality. it was like you were trapped because that was the only system that was

it is the final mission for nasa's shuttle program. >>> finally this half hour, our favorite story ofy. if you've ever watched a space shuttle launch, then you know george diller's voice. maybe even by accident. he's the person who counts down the launch and then says "liftoff." now just like the shuttle program itself, he's retiring. wjxx reporter lewis turner has the story. >> reporter: george diller is just as much a part of the shuttle program as the countdown clock. >> this clock has actually been declared a historical artifact. >> reporter: unlike the clock, you won't recognize his face. >> t minus two minutes and counting. >> reporter: that's just flashing lights until george takes over. >> four, three, two -- zero. >> before at i had actually been a reporter, radio reporter from the tampa bay aa. covered the space program over here for about five years. and really fell in love with nasa and the space program. >> reporter: the job opened up for diller in 1978. it was ten years later that he did his first-ever shuttle play by play. >> there's a lot of concentration. you don't ha

program. there's another civil space initiative to have a new capability. the shuttle as i said had gone through a lot of fits and starts. it was a very expensive program. magnificent technology. and an extraordinary capability. but it was fragile and it was expensive. and with the incident of the challenger, even though they flew eight times after it returned to flight in '88 and september of '88, it flew eight times in the next year, but within 18 months we were stood down again for month after month with hydrogen leaks, et cetera. it's just a very complex system. we had the celv program the titan 4 as gil described. very expensive. very delicate. 18 months on the pad. we needed a new launch system. we needed it for national security purposes. we wanted it for civil space purposes. we wanted it flexible, robust. we wanted it a very affordable, adaptable to a lot of means and we spent a lot of time and energy on that program and a lot of money. we looked at a national aerospace program something that president reagan admired with the idea of going from los angeles to

there is no replacement for the shuttle program. the u.s. will instead rely on russia and private companies. we have live pictures to show from you kennedy space center. the crew is holding a post landing news conference. we'll check into that and have a live report on his historic landing coming up at 5 a.m. >>> here at home, san francisco's police chief is turning to plan b. a shouting match cut short his town hall meeting last night over a deadly police shooting in the bayview. anne makovec is at the police station this morning. i guess things got heated. >> reporter: certainly. now, the police chief says there will be more meetings to come but none are scheduled just yet. it was a rough night for the police last night. take a look at this scene. this is the police chief getting shouted down. [ screaming ] >> reporter: chief greg suhr left not long after that. he did try several times to answer people's questions but a lot of people were mainly there to vent. [ screaming ] >> people are upset. an act of violence happened in their town squ

program. empty shells of what was once florida's thriving space coast. up to ten thousand people will be out of a job as soon as the last shuttle makes its final voyage back to earth home to many of the kennedy space center workers rock which is on the verge of becoming a ghost town without the space program or pretty much nothing i mean this is what you know because the beach was built on the space program you know just a lot of you are going to be out of jobs sorry to be out of homes people are going on welfare left and right food stamps and city chris a fully spent twenty three years with the shuttle launch team as an engineer with a plan to splice thing down for its final mission it means the end of his career with nasa and the beginning of uncertainty a year ago he started looking for a new job to no avail i have applied for jobs and so far i haven't gotten any concrete responses there's not that many jobs out there for sure the u.s. scrapped its shuttle program and now wants the private sector to come up with ways to get astronauts to space several companies are working on new vehicles but it's not clear when they'll be able to deliver them one thin

fitting actually today on this day that we end the space shuttle program. ogram that we can no longer afford. you had an exchange with treasury secretary tim geithner about this. let's watch this and have you respond. >> we're living with unsustainable deficits au. >> yes. >> if we do not reduce them, they will hurt growth. >> only 3% of small businesses will be affected. how can that increase in taxation be that significant to turn that around? >> we're not doing it because we want to do it, we're doing it because we see no alternative. if you don't touch revenues you have to shrink the overall size of government programs. >> i would like to close by saying that on behalf of the business owners in north carolina and across this country, you are wrong. >> he was saying you have to shrink government. is he wrong? >> no, he is absolutely correct about that. we do need to cut programs in washington. we have excessive redundant programs that are duplicative in addressing the same issues. it was a very telling moment. what he said is we obviously have to increase

. >> pelley: way back in 1990, the shuttle program peaked with 32,000 workers, but now it's 6,300 and dropping fast. liz vazquez is a single mother who lost her job as an office worker. her house is in foreclosure. her unemployment checks just ran out. she's been out of work since december, 2009. >> i actually had my first interview about three months ago. >> pelley: let me see if i just heard you right. you got your first interview after more than a year and a half? >> yep. i've been trying all this time, and i thought for sure, you know-- i have an associate's degree, it's not a bachelor's, but i thought for sure with all my skills and years of experience that i would have gotten something. >> pelley: what's next? >> food stamps, $200 a month, and then i guess i just have to figure it out, wing it. >> i've been a lifelong space buff. >> pelley: former shuttle technician greg cecil has a master's degree, but he's run into a problem that we've been seeing all over the country these days. >> a lot of people i talk with online that used to work out of kennedy space center, we're noticin