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Criticizes the decision to scrap nasas constellation program to send americans back to the moon, writing: without the skill and experience that actual spacecraft operations provide, the u.s.a. is far too likely to be on a long downhill slide to mediocrity. and tomorrow well be joined by gene sirnin, the cosigner of the letter to the president and well ask his take on the future of the space program and what may be lost if we dont invest heavily in that. bill: a great guest. martha: he is a great...

Mediocrity." vick, we know some long time fas sa supporters who are upset that u.s. sponsored manned space flight is going to be put on hiatus for a few years. the obama administrations pushing back. tell bus it. >> thats absolutely right. this all comes on the eve, chuck, of the presidents trip down to the space center down in florida where hes going to make some announcements. what theyre basically telling everybody is hold your fire, wait till you see what the president says tomorrow. theres ...

Under right now, defend your position. >> yes, i think its shortsighted because weve spent over 6-7 billion dollars in trying to get the constellation program going can. now, i understand that the president is saying, okay, build the arecent capsule and then well go out to commercial interests and let them build a booster to put that capsule up into space to support the space station. but they dont realize that by doing that that the people who will build the booster will be new entrepreneurs, t...

I want you to see what it says. while the presidents plan humans traveling away from earth and perhaps towards mars at some time in the future, the lack of developed rockets and spacecraft will assure that ability will not be able for many years. he says without the skill and experience that actual spacecraft operation provides the usa is far too likely to be on a long downhill slide to immediate at krimmediate citi. it will give us the very best chance of achieving that goal. now, to be fair to...

Us. i guess the russians understand the law of supply and demand. >> reporter: yeah, this is simple economics, jane. if youre an airline and you have the only plane going to a destination, you can pretty much charge whatever you want. the russians have doubled the price to $51 million per astronaut because were retiring the shuttle system later this year. the russians will soon have the only system capable of delivering astronauts to the international space station. we dont have anything to repl...

Place. astronauts completed the second of three spacewalks. only three shuttle missions remain. in february, president obama killed nasa constellation program causing anger in the aerospace community. president obama will visit florida this thursday to discuss his plans for nasa. those are some of your top stories right now. the pending vacancy on the supreme court, chris wallace asked key senators today what the summer might hold for a potential confirmation battle. i salt down with chris for...

Obama policy regarding space is they canceled the constellation program. that was the only thing in the arsenal we were developing and now we find out there is a good gap before we develop the heavily lift capability. >> there was also going to be a gap. that is what we concerned ourselves with. constellation program was not sustainable and it wouldnt work as advertised, but i am surprised -- i was surprised that the entire program was canceled. now i believe that several pieces will come back. ...

Important barrier, there are more women in space right now than ever in history. what it means, all this, for the future of the american space program. well talk about it coming up. ♪ and i know too much to go back home because ive heard it all before, and ive been down there ♪ no ones in, you could end up taking 4 times the number of pills... compared to aleve. choose aleve and you could start taking fewer pills. just 2 aleve have the strength to relieve arthritis pain all day.

Next generation of nasa rockets and use that for technology, research and development and give that to private industry with the idea that four or five years down the line youll have basically the beginnings of what happened to the aerospace industry 40 or 50 years ago, youll have private carriers, boeing and lockheed martin but also new start-up companies taking up the flak. jane: how do you envision it if you were to predict ten years down the road? >> youre seeing an interesting gap between t...

To manage the number of affairs that he did and the fragile emotions that are involved and then to come back and play golf this quickly says that it may not, frankly, touch him deeply. these things that we imagine might move people or shake them might not for him. we know this about him. he can compartmentalize two -- to an extreme. jane: doctor, you know, some have speculated when hes asked the personal questions about his wife, his family, his children and all this that he would ask for privac...