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The president's speech in a state where at least 9,000 space jobs are on the line. >> i believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before the decade is out of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. >> brian: to the moon we went as j.f.k. promp promised not because it was easy, but it was hard. now the program that gave us the men on the moon and shuttle program is at a crossroads. the shuttle program coming to a close. follow-on constellation program that was supposed to take to us the moon and on to mars canceled. at the kennedy space center, pres...

We had no way to get into earth. we have to hitch a ride on russians who are charging us extraordinary rates and are only going to increase that. >> bret: we should point out that astronaut buzz aldrin is supportive of president obama's plan. here is what neil armstrong said, juan, in the letter. "it appears we will have wasted the current $10 billion plus in constellation and equally lost the many years required to recreate the equivalent of what we will have discarded." say tag the constellation program would take them to the moon and then onto mars. what do you think? >> i think that buzz a...

Oh, sure. >> did you smoke pot today? >> yeah. >> before you came here? >> yeah. >> can't wait to see that tomorrow night. larry king tomorrow night back in this chair with willie nelson. tonight, a few more minutes with buzz aldrin. we learned about your iphone app. how cool was it to be on "dancing with the stars," buzz? >> i think it was an honor to be selected to represent those people and because of the contributions of the apollo program in the past. i think it reminded people of the great successes of apollo and got them in a timely way to think about the transition that we have from th...

Would be pretty close to 2030 and i'm sure the chinese and indians and others would be there by that time in a competitive race. i think it's much better for us to take our experience and an international lunar development corporation where we have a majority position and help out the other nations. we put a large amount of money into that space station and i'm glad that we have extended it another five years so we can test out the equipment that we need for long duration flight which we don't have right now and weren't going to get from the constellation program. we need to reorient the orion...

Exceptional. should it become more private? should we incentivize on the private side? i'm out free market ideas. >> sounds like a great idea. the tricky marketing thin. he's raising the budget of the space program while cutting the constellation program. look, the bottom line is, armstrong,ç lovell are all against it. i had pleasure of having christmas dinner at his restaurant outside chicago this is not a grandstanding guy. if he is speaking out on this, it is because he thinks has to. >> fact that armstrong is peeking out is what is astonishing. aldrin -- armstrong is almost never heard f...