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Trump tweeted today, quote, for all of the money we are spending, nasa should not be talking about going to the moon. we did that 50 years ago. they should be focused on the much bigger things we're doing including mars of which the moon is a part. defense and science. the tweet sounded similar to something his predecessor said when former president barack obama was explaining why he was canceling the constellation program which also would have returned u.s. astronauts to the moon. >> i have to say pretty bluntly here we've been there before. >> tonight the white house insists that this return...

Quote, for all of the money we are spending nasa should not be talking about going to the moon. we did that 50 years ago. we should be focused on the much bigger things we are doing including mars of which the moon is a part, defense and science. the tweet sounded similar to something his predecessor said when barack obama was explaining why he was canceling the constellation program which also would have returned us astronauts to the moon. >> i have to say pretty bluntly here we have been there before. >> reporter: tonight the white house insists that this return to the moon program called ar...

Nasa administrator said, nasa is using the moon to send humans to mars. all of this is really overshadowed the big news of the day. the international space station is now open for business meaning that private companies can now produce, market or test their products on the space station. so shannon, pretty soon you could see a commercial or movie actually filmed in space. shannon. >> shannon: i know you would be brave enough to go. i'll just stay here and watch you. you actually are plugged into this community and heard there was concern and it ran deep. tell us about that. >> because in order...

Dealt a huge blow by president obama who cancelled the constellation program who wanted to return the astronauts to the moon by 2020. a year ago, president trump put the u.s. back on a path to return to the moon, but many aero space experts have said and worry that this time in this new space race that the u.s. could get beat only this time by the chinese. trace? >> kristin fisher live in d.c. thank you. meantime, an astronaut says he accidentally called 911 from the international space station. the dutch astronaut says it's pretty easy to call earth from the space station. you just dial 9 and...

With the sanction talk the might stop providing the rides. >> they have the opportunity to do that. if we get tough on sanctions to russia, guess russians can also get tough on our sanks that was the big problem of canceling the constellation program or putting the orbiters to bed too area, we didn't have access to the space station and 70% of the construction was provided by the u.s. taxpayer. >> ever get annoyed we don't think this out. whatever problems with he space shuttle, we didn't have an immediate followup plan. we were thinking so long term, the partest guys in the -- smartest guys i...