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Have not agreed on how to fund the spacecraft which could take the shuttles place. >> eric: what are we going to do? the president has come under a lot of criticism, especially in florida and elsewhere for canceling the constellation program, the manned program to the moon. they say no, that they will increase nasas budget and that we need to move to private space programs and more space research. do they have a point? >> i think its a good move to move to commercial services for launching astro...

An asteroid by 2025, but we will get to deep space, which might be one of the gravity balance points called the legrange points, but this would be very exciting. very exciting. >> brian: bill, a lot of people look at what happened and including im talking prominent names in the space game -- chief among them neil armstrong, the first man to stand on the moon. they say were not sure this is the right plan. they were disappointed that the constellation program was canceled. what say you to that? >...

They may have to wave off until tuesday and come in tuesday when the weather is better. but this morning i would like to report a little breaking news to you, alex. i was talking with florida se senior senator bill nelson, who is chairman of the subcommittee that oversees nasa. he will be putting out a press release stating how they have a plan to save more than 7,000 of the 8,000 to 9,000 jobs that theyre going to lose with the cancellation of the constellation program and also the retirement o...

Now listen to the back and forth between senator jon kyl and liu yesterdayesterday. [ no audio ] >> sorry about that, brian. we dont have the sound. but kyl was questioning -- he said its racially charged. the democrats actually rush to lius defense, praising his writings and his record. dianne feinstein was one of the people who did praise him and defend him and said youre obviously very smart and very gifted. the senate judiciary committee has to schedule a vote on liu before it goes to the se...

Nobody is more committed to manned space flight and human exflore ration of space than i am. >> brian: to eventually land on mars by 2025 or so, the president believes nasralla should begin to build technology and build orion space capsule and support space taxis. in the meantime, the astronauts will hitch expensive ride with the russians to the space station. the plan has its supporters like buzz aldrin, the second man to step foot on the moon. he felt constellation program was too much been th...

The presidents speech in a state where at least 9,000 space jobs are on the line. >> i believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before the decade is out of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. >> brian: to the moon we went as j.f.k. promp promised not because it was easy, but it was hard. now the program that gave us the men on the moon and shuttle program is at a crossroads. the shuttle program coming to a close. follow-on constellation program ...

We had no way to get into earth. we have to hitch a ride on russians who are charging us extraordinary rates and are only going to increase that. >> bret: we should point out that astronaut buzz aldrin is supportive of president obamas plan. here is what neil armstrong said, juan, in the letter. "it appears we will have wasted the current $10 billion plus in constellation and equally lost the many years required to recreate the equivalent of what we will have discarded." say tag the constellatio...

Oh, sure. >> did you smoke pot today? >> yeah. >> before you came here? >> yeah. >> cant wait to see that tomorrow night. larry king tomorrow night back in this chair with willie nelson. tonight, a few more minutes with buzz aldrin. we learned about your iphone app. how cool was it to be on "dancing with the stars," buzz? >> i think it was an honor to be selected to represent those people and because of the contributions of the apollo program in the past. i think it reminded people of the great ...

Would be pretty close to 2030 and im sure the chinese and indians and others would be there by that time in a competitive race. i think its much better for us to take our experience and an international lunar development corporation where we have a majority position and help out the other nations. we put a large amount of money into that space station and im glad that we have extended it another five years so we can test out the equipment that we need for long duration flight which we dont have ...

Exceptional. should it become more private? should we incentivize on the private side? im out free market ideas. >> sounds like a great idea. the tricky marketing thin. hes raising the budget of the space program while cutting the constellation program. look, the bottom line is, armstrong,ç lovell are all against it. i had pleasure of having christmas dinner at his restaurant outside chicago this is not a grandstanding guy. if he is speaking out on this, it is because he thinks has to. >> fact...