After 10 Glorious Years, Sunshine State News and I Are Passing the Baton

A group of former astronauts and the leader of Mission Control are pleading with NASA to cool it on "global warming." In a letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, Apollo 7 astronaut Walt Cunningham and fellow space farers maintain that, The global-warming hypothesis has never been proved look at the data." The signatories, who include Mission Control boss Chris Kraft, charged that the agency is endangering the reputation of science itself by advocating the extreme position that carbon dioxide is the major cause of climate change.

The Heartland Institute, which was among the groups that unsuccessfully called for Gov. Rick Scott to veto Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnams energy bill, released the following comment:

Blaming everything from the Arab Spring to the earthquake in Japan, President Obama has dodged responsibility for the lousy state of the U.S. economy. Ironically, Obama has also said he would make "no excuses" for any shortcomings in his policies. That haunting statement is echoed repeatedly in a new GOP-produced video, which includes a snippet from Fort Myers.

The space shuttle Discovery, which completed 39 missions, spent 365 days in space, orbited the Earth 5,830 times, and traveled 148,221,675 miles, is to be lifted off for its final flight out of Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday. Residents along the Space Coast may be able to see the retired craft as it is flown to its new home at the National Air and Space Museum, Udvar-Hazy Center in Washington, D.C., on the back of the shuttle carrier aircraft as the 747.