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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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Everybody even if you were not alive when it happened. on the one hand i understand 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 track, be able to invest in it. >> frankly, private enterprise is looking into space more and more. >> george? >> the head of nasa say...

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...

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...

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...