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>> because they canceled the constellation program that was going to have us go back to the moon and then over to mars. here's what buzz said. >> what this nation needs in order to maintain its position as the 21st century leader in space exploration is a near term focus on lowering the cost of access to space and on developing key cutting edge technologies that will take us farther, further and faster, i believe this is the right program at the right time and i hope that nasa and our dedicated space community will embrace this new direction as much as i do. i applaud the president for his bol...

Moments from now you are going to see the president walking up to that podium that this gentleman is walking up to. that's the kennedy space center, and you are going to hear about the future of the space program from the president. he is making an announcement coinciding with the fact that the budget for nasa has been increased, but a number of the programs that we associate with the space program are being discontinued, including the shuttle program, the constellation program to the -- to the -- to the moon. that's senator bill nelson, who is speaking right now. we will expect very shortly, ...

And encountered technical problems that offered rocket programs and development encounter, its costs started to increase and the gap started to grow. so that job crisis was always looming no matter what. people either through self-delusion or nasa being very fuzz bewhat numbers were actually going to be lost, it was never clear about what would happen. now that the shuttle program is ending and there is no constellation program that is going to follow on and it wasn't going to follow on even before obama cut it, it looked like the job numbers were just in kennedy space center and that doesn't ...

Aircraft mechanic or maybe i'll stick around here and drive a truck. i don't know. >> there's just kind of a cliff out there, and we're not sure what's on the other side of that cliff. >> reporter: now, apollo astro is notes, neal armstrong, gene surgeonen and jim lobo wrote an open letter and that open letter really criticized the president's policy saying, look, cancellation of the constellation program say mistake. that shouldn't happen. we should be going back to the moon. in part, the letter reads that the united states forenearly half a century to be without carriage to lower earth orbit...

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. >> you believe there is nothing broken about the agency right now? >> i don't believe that we're going to solve our problems by taking a shot in the dark and hoping that some commercial entity is going to be able to do what the government has been doing successfully for half a century and commercial entities have never done anywhere in the world in any country. >> so ideally then what would you like to see happen? i know of course the priority is to keep folks with a job, keep them employed, the many thousands who could be affected by any changes or cuts. >> i ...