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Program ends will lead to a dangerous lack of continuity. astronaut neal armstrong and two colleagues recently wrote an open letter to the president, quoting, without the skill and experience that actual spacecraft operation provides, the usa is far too likely to be on a long downhill slide to mediocrity. america must decide if it wishes to remain a leader in space. it is a great honor to bring in, as promised, colonel buzz aldrin, who traveled with the president today on air force one. among ae...

Highly skilled engineers and other workers once the shuttle program ends will lead to a dangerous lack of continuity. astronaut neil armstrong and two former colleagues recently wrote an open letter to the president quoting. without the skill and experience that actual spacecraft operation provides the usa is far too likely to be on a long downhill slide to mediocrity. america must decide if it wishes to remain a leader in space. it is a great honor to bring in, as promised, colonel buzz aldrin ...

Astronaut neal armstrong and two of his former colleagues recently wrote an open letter to the president, quoting, without the skill and experience that actual spacecraft operation provides, the usa is far too likely to be on a long downhill slide to mediocrity. america must decide if it wishes to remain a leader in space. it is a great honor to bring in, as promised, colonel buzz aldrin, who traveled with the president today on air force one. among colonel ald rin -- aldrins many missions, part...

Space for $50 million. we spoke to a private manned spacecraft company who feels the private enterprise can do it for $20 million. thats the point. this administration is saying lets take that transportation of astronauts into space and maybe put that into the private sector. the bottom line here, shifting priorities. nasas budget is not being cut. the mission is being changed. >> thank you, ali. we want to bring in the science guy, bill nye, who is in florida to hear the president. let me ask y...

Defending it. pitting oddly the second man to walk on the moon against the first man to walk on the moon. derrick pitts joins me in a moment. responding to the plans to deep six missions to deep space, apollo commanders writing in this letter, as you see, without the skill and experience that actual spacecraft operation provides, the usa is far too likely to be on a longdown hill slide to mediocrity. a second group of nasa veterans is sending a separate letter to the white house, the white house...

This letter, as you see, without the skill and experience that actual spacecraft operation provides, the usa is far too likely to be on a long downhill slide to mediocrity. a second group of nasa veterans is sending a separate letter to the white house expressing its disappointment with the plan the white house responding to the criticism, it would retain the constellation moon program, and sending owe ryan unmanned to send as an emergency vehicle. also to speed development on a rocket that coul...

First man to walk on the moon. derrick pitts joins me in a moment. responding to the obama administrations plans to deep six missions to deep space, apollo commanders writing in this letter, as you see, without the skill and experience that actual spacecraft operation provides, the usa is far too likely to be on a long downhill slide to mediocrity. a second group of nasa veterans is sending a separate letter to the white house expressing its disappointment with the plan the white house respondin...

Got himself in a whole lot of trouble. >> lot more tickling going on than we thought. >> charges make it official. at 9 minutes after hour, im wondering why buzz aldrin and neil armstrong, when we first saw them burst on the scene, aastronauts, aldrin the second to walk on the moon. armstrong the first. theyre not on the same page when it comes to president obamas nasa policy will be. >> neil armstrong who rarely says anything public. he took the president to task because hell be giving a big sp...

Have a lot of people nervous and particularly lawmakers on capitol hill who are from states like florida where there are so many thousands of jobs at stake when you start shifting priority and also some of the famous astronauts like neil armstrong, a tight fraternity of former astronauts, theyve written a letter, several of them to the president saying in part, quote, without the skill and experience that actual spacecraft operation provide, the usa is on a long, downward slide to mediocritiy an...

Armstrong and several others released a statement smacking down the presidents plan. listen to what he said. its long. ill read it for you. while the presidents plan envisages humans traveling away from earth and perhaps towards mars at some time in the future, the lack of developed rockets and spacecraft will assure that that ability will not be available for many years. without the skill and experience that actual spacecraft operation provides, the usa is far too likely to be on a long downhil...