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There for the constellation program. the problem that some are looking at is that program a lot of money has been dumped into it. a lot of other stimulus money. josh levs crunching some of these numbers for us. >> ill tell you how this breaks down. its a heck of a lot of money were talking about, a quarter billion dollars spent for the program. i pulled up some video from nasas video. you can see kind of what this is and what its all about. the idea here is to return man to the moon. this was th...

Have an update for you. we talked about the nasa constellation program, the space program that was supposed to bring man back into space. this was nasas big project. a quarter billion in stimulus funding has been spent on it. the white house says its not efficient and they will put money into another program. now we hear from nasa that they will put $50 million in stimulus money now into whatever this new technology is going to be. so they are saying this is a new chunk of stimulus funding they ...

Pressure from florida senators, this is a swing state. is he going to be able to stick by this plan to get rid of the moon mission and to privatize lots of nasa? >> yeah. lets be clear about what were doing. first of all, nasas budget actually goes up. there is this existing program, the constellation program, which is over budget, its behind schedule, its based on returning men or women to the moon, which weve already done. were saying, yes, lets put some additional resources into nasa, but let...

Do. >> sean: a broken promise that wont be foregotten any time soon. >> sean: joining me are two of the former united space alliance employees, terry white and tony dees. welcome to the program. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> sean: the president talked about we are going to grow the economy and protect jobs and continue supporting nasa and continue funding the success of the shuttle program. did he do that? >> no, he did not. we knew the shuttle was ending but constellation was su...

>> its obviously really nice that, for example, discovery went into the smithsonian last week. i was there for that event. we now have enterprise going into new york. a lot of people are getting to see the shuttles. the problem we have is that we were going to retire the shuttles, and we had a replacement program, which was the constellation program to go on to the moon and mars and astroids and beyond. and unfortunately the administration canceled the follow-on program. when i met with people a...

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The heavy fire he got from capitol hill on this original february idea, scrapped constellation entirely, revamp it, and suggest that, in fact, there is going to be a man space flight with high technology components and real space benefits, but theyre going to be farther down the road because mars is quite a great distance from the earth, much farther than the moon. megyn: thank you for that major! >> reporter: didnt know if you were sure about that or not. i want to make sure. megyn: its been a ...

Constellation program, that was to put mans space thriet to the moon by 2020, that would be scrapped entirely. whatuse going to announce tomorrow is no, and ive decided, and i can tell you why, megyn, because of tremendous opposition from aerospace companies that support nasa, have the contracts and lawmakers, republican and democrat in florida and texas, who hated the idea of canceling the constellation program. the president is going to say okay, im going to take component parts of t.1 is the ...

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