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Foxnews.com, type in your salary. here we use $50,000, because that is the median, the chart will show what portion of that pork project is paid for by your tax bracket, 18 percent, and then it calculates how much you pay individually for the program, in this case, about two bucks for a person in that wage bracket and more than 56 for a top wage earner. go to the website and you can also vote there, and basically say do you think this is a wise use of your money. some of the numbers may not seem like much, but remember, over 9000 earmarks last year, there are more this year, jon, we looked i...

Nitrogen tapg. problem is not putting the astronauts in dame, but if it isn't fixed in the next few days, nasa could be forced to turn off some of the station's electronics. jon: the first man to walk on the moon slamming the obama administration's plans for the future of nasa just one day before the president visits florida to deliver a space policy speech. neil armstrong and fellow astronauts signing an open letter criticizing the decision to scrap nasa's program that would have sent americans back to the moon. joining us now, one of the signers of that letter, captain jim lovell. he was the...

Now, and yet we put thousands upon thousands of dedicated people to do the job to put us into space. and if the program was never designed to support other businesses or industries, and yet the thousands of spin-offs with the technology improvements have helped companies that are, that have no interest or no involvement in be space. jon: in this letter to the president, you warn that america is likely to be on a long downhill slide to mediocrity without an active program to launch humans into space, and you write, it appears we will have wasted our current $10-plus-billion investment in conste...

Under right now, defend your position. >> yes, i think it's shortsighted because we've spent over 6-7 billion dollars in trying to get the constellation program going can. now, i understand that the president is saying, okay, build the arecent capsule and then we'll go out to commercial interests and let them build a booster to put that capsule up into space to support the space station. but they don't realize that by doing that that the people who will build the booster will be new entrepreneurs, they will not have the expertise for being rated, and consequently@going to cost us billions not ...

Jon: obviously, you were part of america's successful moon program, apollo, back in the '60s and '70s, part of that apollo 13 crew that had that enormous problem in space and was able to the overcome it and get back to earth safely. you know the feeling among some americans. we've been there to the moon, been there, done that. maybe, they say, this is a program that could go by the boards. >> well, i don't think they understand the real value of the, of the program and the sort of the other aspects. for instance, the program was never designed to be a spur to education, but it has really cause...