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Didnt allow the six years from 2004 until 2010 to come up with a replacement to the shuttle, if we retired it at that point. and for 30 years, we have been watching the shuttle land on a runway, and it appeared to me that the previous program was very well satisfied with going back to the days of "mercury," "gemini" and "apollo" and landing in the ocean. again, i dont think thats u.s. leadership. i think we need to do things like not have a gap in our space flight program that allows -- that for...

People who are most trained, most experienced, most skilled and the very vital engineers together. this is what the senior senator from florida bill nelson is trying to do. this is what astronaut neil armstrong and astronaut gene cernan the last man on the moon, the first man on the moon, and jim lovell the famous commander of apollo 13. this is what they were talking about in a letter to nbc this past tuesday. that is that we keep everything together and moving to make sure we dont lose these c...

Tough infrastructure in mission control, simulators, the training. it doesnt make sense to me. >> bret: president obama at the kennedy space center announcing increase in the nasa budget but also saying the constellation program in place will be canceled. to do that, that costs $2 billion. where are we in the space program? and what the president is talking about? were back with the panel. charles? >> we are seeing the abolition of the manned space program. when neil armstrong speaks out, that i...

Nitrogen tapg. problem is not putting the astronauts in dame, but if it isnt fixed in the next few days, nasa could be forced to turn off some of the stations electronics. jon: the first man to walk on the moon slamming the obama administrations plans for the future of nasa just one day before the president visits florida to deliver a space policy speech. neil armstrong and fellow astronauts signing an open letter criticizing the decision to scrap nasas program that would have sent americans bac...

Because we wont have a flying shutting fleet anymore, youre saying that it is the human capital, the knowledge, i guess, of pressing the space envelope that is really one of the big concerns here. >> thats exactly correct. were going to lose all that by trying to go some other direction and trying to, you know, go out to commercial aspects to do something that we already have in hand. and, you know, whats going to happen is that were going to be a third rate nation. china and russia are going to...

With the commercial side of it, all of this would tie in together but the most important thing is it would keep very skilled people working here. it would keep vital engineers working here. if he waits until 2015 as he said yesterday to make this decision, then during that five-year hiatus all of these skilled people will go on to other jobs. and thats what they dont understand. this is primarily the criticism of neil armstrong, jim lovell, and gene cernum. those were the first and last men on t...

That, republicans say the rules democrats want are simply too tight. jon? jon: thanks, wendall. jane: 234re7bty of people use craigs list every day, its like an online bulletin board. it can also be dangerous. tim at our national desk is working on a story that has ended up in a manhunt hes watching at this moment, well get details. plus, the pioneers of americas space program are lashing out at the president calling his decision to suspend manned moon missions is really devastating. theyre spea...

Jon: obviously, you were part of americas successful moon program, apollo, back in the 60s and 70s, part of that apollo 13 crew that had that enormous problem in space and was able to the overcome it and get back to earth safely. you know the feeling among some americans. weve been there to the moon, been there, done that. maybe, they say, this is a program that could go by the boards. >> well, i dont think they understand the real value of the, of the program and the sort of the other aspects. ...

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40 years ago today when a single event cap vacated the planet. a little capsule was hurdling toward the moon on a mission to land on the lunar surface. 56 hours into the flight a sign of pending disaster. one that had the astronauts aboard apollo 13 sending that now famous message through the blackness of space. >> okay, houston, we have a problem here. >> this is houston, say again, please. >> houston, we have a problem. >> looks good here. >> shepard: apollo xiii had launched a couple of days ...