aircraft mechanic or maybe i'll stick around here and drive a truck. i don't know. >> there's just kind of a cliff out there, and we're not sure what's on the other side of that cliff. >> reporter: now, apollo astro is notes, neal armstrong, gene surgeonen and jim lobo wrote an open letter and that open letter really criticized the president's policy saying, look, cancellation of the constellation program say mistake. that shouldn't happen. we should be going back to the moon. in part, the letter reads that the united states forenearly half a century to be without carriage to lower earth orbit and with no human exploration capability to go beyond earth orbit for an interminate time into the future, destines our nation to be one of second or third-rate stature. those former astronauts did not