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♪ on the road again >> did you smoke a few joints, go on stage and sing. >> sure. 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 ap...

Lejunesse here from california because the government plans to stop production of a military plane and is canceling further moon missions by nasa. how much of your money would the government save by canceling those plans? william, you've broken down all the numbers for us thankfully. >> yeah. you know, balancing the budget isn't easy and everybody agrees we have to cut spending but like all cuts, they hurt and right now, the defense and space lobbies are squealing like a stuck pig. they're complaining about the president's plan to kill those two programs from his budget. but take nasa's $3.5 m...

Mission control, simulators, the training. it doesn't make sense to me. >> bret: president obama at the kennedy space center announcing increase in the nasa budget but also saying the constellation program in place will be canceled. to do that, that costs $2 billion. where are we in the space program? and what the president is talking about? we're back with the panel. charles? >> we are seeing the abolition of the manned space program. when neil armstrong speaks out, that is an event. the most self-afacing american hero in our history. he could have been lindbergh and he became j.d. salinger a...

Am. we have to do it in a smart way. >> reporter: to visit asteroids and eventually land on mars by 2035 or so, the president believes nasa should begin development on heavy lift rocket technologies, build an orion space capsule for the space station and support space taxis like one he looked at today. in the meantime we hitch expensive ride with russians to the space station. it has supports like buzz aldrin the second man to set foot on the moon. he felt the constellation program was too much been there, done that. >> i think going back to the moon and getting there 40, 50 years after we wer...

You said that we've got to be 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 -- arm...