Mister Sumrall says NASA estimates the new Ares One will be twenty to thirty times safer than the Space Shuttle.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

Phil Sumrall says NASA's estimate to keep the Ares program going forward as planned calls for three billion dollars in additional spending a year.

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We asked Phil Sumrall how NASA expects to use Ares in its space exploration plans.

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By now, Pourciau and her friend had separated in the panic, and another movie patron risked his life by helping her scramble to the exit, where she and Sumrall reunited, she said.

CNN: Colorado shooting: Stories of survival

Bonnie Kate Pourciau, 18, said she is "not a huge Batman fan, really, " but decided to go to the movie after she and her friend Elizabeth Sumrall stopped at a hotel in Aurora en route from Seattle to their homes in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

CNN: Colorado shooting: Stories of survival