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Doing. over the years, there's been no shortage of criticism about how nasa spends its money, your money. the space agency is again at the center of another "how did this happen" head scratcher. but this time, it's not all nasa's fault. >> it's certainly not the way you would spend the money if you were trying to be economical about it. and frankly, i think taxpayers should be annoyed by that, outraged by it, even. >> outraged because nasa has spent more than $200 million and climbing, just in the last few months on the consolation program and its aries rocket. it was going to replace the shut...

The space shuttle program was coming to an end. a lot of people had hoped that perhaps the president would extend the shuttle program and add another flight or two, not to say he couldn't come here today and make that announcement and even that would still be ending the program, but people were banking on the constellation program, the building of the aries rocket. the heavy lift rocket that would then take astronauts beyond low-earth orbit. when constellation was killed and all of those hopes for jobs from that program were dashed as well. at that point they're sitting here saying 7,000 jobs ...