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Something the americans are proud of when we look back on the video that our astronauts have done. it is an exciting thing for everybody even if you were not alive when it happened. on the one $he one hand i under president obamas concern about the shuttle program, were talking hundreds of millions of dollars at a time when we dont have a lot of money. but it also would be nice to find a way to stay somewhat competitive, maybe not as much as we used to. when hopefully the country is back on trac...

Also because kennedy wanted to demonstrate that the so-called lethargy of the past years was put aside, and youth and vigor was at hand. that said, it is not close to where science is interesting anymore. were building wonderful telescopes. and we have rovers on mars, it is not quite fair to say were out of the space business or out of that frontier. >> joe? >> i agree with george, i think look -- >> are you surprised? >> yeah. >> i think i am. we didnt abandon o-- george buh started the retirem...

Mercury, gemini, apollo, and the men who rode those rockets, wonder. >> the leadership we turned around and given back to the same people. >> we have out-sourced all the space technology to the russians. theyre the ones putting our people up in space. >> they say there are no flags in space, that is a good thing because a big one is now missing in space. it is as if we have gone from rock stars to relics, faster than you can say super nova. and the only indication that our grand kids will have i...

Jet to confirm we had given up on space. >> it is almost as if we are not challenging ourselves to reach for the stars. >> how had it come to this? some 50 years after this. >> we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy but because they are hard. >> and kennedys goal was to put a man on the moon before the decade was out. but for jfk, it was not just about conquering the space, it was about conquering the russians, a cold war played out in space....

To fill the void. russia, china, india and japan, all throttle up as we wound down. the country that conquered space, now hitching rides into space. and leaving it to unmanned vehicles to do all the exploring on mars, past jupiter and saturn, and passing the outer reaches of the solar system itself. but the last man to walk on the moon said something was missing. >> what would a human being -- what would that difference be? >> because we can think in realtime. for the most part, the computer is ...

Challenging ourselves to reach for the stars. >> how had it come to this? some 50 years after this. >> we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy but because they are hard. >> and kennedys goal was to put a man on the moon before the decade was out. but for jfk, it was not just about conquering the space, it was about conquering the russians, a cold war played out in the cold darkness of space. >> well, they beat us in orbit, so we were behind. w...

The shuttle cant do those missions. so instead of spending money that wasnt going to get us there or even putting money on a kind of interim thing kind of kept us all feeling good that we were in space, it is doing the missions that george was talking about. and we planned on doing more in 2030, i dont know if the wil s is there. >> it is not a plan, it was an announcement. there is nothing that is going to produce that in any of our lifetimes, i hope that we all live long, were not going to see...

Economic situation now without cutting the defense budget. cutting the space budget. i think until we can get the economic house in order were not going to be able to be the great nation as we were in the past >> decline is a choice, not a condition. there is a aassumption were in decline because year overstretched of we have the strongest economy in the world and most energy in the world we cant, i mean, energy in the population energy but that, we can exploit were in a position to really flour...

Go to the moon within the decade. without his leadership that would not have happened. we have a president in office now who cancelled the follow-on program we would have had after the shuttle, the shuttle was too dangerous. we could have easily re-created a program which was called constellation, which was like apollo and would have gotten us back into space and given us a position to make ultimately a base on the moon or mars. we now have nothing, obama talked about capturing on astronauts, pi...

This week as president obama was trying to counter vladimir putins actions in ukraine, the american astronaut had to hitch a ride to the international space station. that trip cost about $70 million, part of a $400 million plus-payout for the russian taxi service. neil cavuto on a bygone era when america could put its own people in space. >> well, it first hit us watching this unfold live. it was a friday, april 27th, 2012. the space ship was to arrive to a museum, a symbol of our conquer in spa...