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Get involved with this personally will go elsewhere, and well also lose by retirements and shift ising jobs all the current people laid off. so these people, this team is going to be irreplaceable and probably cost us triple the expense of putting it back together in five years when we do, if we do, decide to go into deep space. heres where i think the president should be more aggressive about continuing nasas space operations, keeping this team together, finding a back-up plan to the commercial...

Ireland and nordic countries to shut down their airports. jane and speaking of airports, take a look at whats happening at andrews air force base, president obama is -- there he is, hes on his way to florida today, hes going to be meeting with nasa workers at the kennedy space center to talk about the future of space exploration for the united states and hes walking out with buzz aldrin, about to get on air force one. you can hear the crowd cheering for the former astronaut. -- wendt el goler --...

>> reporter: how does that affect how americans feel about government spend something lets take the presidents plan to save $3.5 billion by ending nasas effort to put men back on the moon. if you earn $15,000, youll save about 1.62. however, if you make between 200, $250,000, that will save you about $95. so what do you think? go to foxnews.com/your money and you can vote. whats more important, killing the constellation program to help balance the budget or putting men back on the moon? this, jo...

Yeah, i dont think it was pieces of space station and astronauts waving hi as they come down. jane jane a little doubt though, mark. [laughter] mark hobson from the university of wisconsin madison, thanks. jon: check your calendar, you probably know this is tax day, but what the government taketh away, well, your fellow man might give back. you might not know about all the free giveaways that are out there for you today. jenna lee will tell us about some tax day freebies -- jane: ice cream? jon:...

Center today. on the other hand, former apollo astronaut buzz aldrin and the first woman in space, sally ride, getting behind the presidents plans. so lets talk about it with former nasa astronaut, fox news contributor as well tom jones. do you sing, tom? [laughter] >> only in the shower, jon. jon: all right. so sum up what the president is saying here. whats he planning, why is he canceling that one program and why are so many people so upset about it? >> well, back in february he did cancel th...

Program and telling nasa to speed development of a new launcher. in the meantime, the u.s. will pay russia $50 million a head to hitch rides for astronauts to the space station and the president will spend about $6 billion to encourage private companies to develop launchers. there are a couple of private companies who think they can get people to the space station for a lot less than the russians charge but they havent the launchers to do that yet, jane. jane: wendell, as we watch the two ascend...