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From orlando. it is good to see you, sir. thanks for your time. >> thanks, tony. >> well, let's start here. the president empanelled a blue ribbon commission, as you know, to look into the constellation program. remind us all again what the panel concluded. >> the panel basically concluded that the u.s., human spaceflight program was an unsustainable trajectory because its ambitions and its funding were not adequately matched. >> okay. so that's the starting point for the reevaluation and the reimagining for this administration. will you put, robert, for us the estimated nasa job losses and fi...

Kennedy space center in florida. >> table 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. >> reporter: to the moon we went, as j.f.k. promised, not because it was easy, but because it was hard. now the space program that gave us mercury, apollo, gemini is at a crossroads. shuttle program is coming to a close. follow on constellation program that was supposed to take to us the moon and mars canceled. so today, at the kennedy space center, president obama stood before an audience wanting to hear a clea...

Thousands of new jobs to florida's so-called space coast and expand the range of space destinations so what is the problem? his plan also essentially eliminates manned space travel among other things. virt wally every astronaut to weigh in on that plan condemned it in very harsh language including neil armstrong the first man to walk on the moon. we have brian wilson at kennedy space center. what kind of crowd will president obama face today? >> reporter: it will be a skeptical crowd. this crowd cares deeply about the manned exploration of space. they will see the shuttle program come to an en...

Set to retire a number of years ago. so that has been in work and in action. in fact this program extends it such that we go into 2011 to be able to complete the space station. one of the concerns that people have is whether or not we're going to be able to have a continuous presence in space. the continued capability going to space. that was going to be lost regardless of what happened with the president's program. what i think is really exciting about president obama's program is we're saying that we're going to be able to develop some more advanced technologies than we're contemplated with ...

Answers no doubt will reap untold benefits right here on earth. so the point is what we're looking for is not just to continue on the same path. we want to leap into the future. we want major breakthroughs, a transformative agenda for nasa. [ applause ] now, yes, pursuing this new strategy will require that we revise the old strategy. in part, this is because the old strategy, including the constellation program, was not fulfilling its promise in many ways. that's not just my assessment. that's also the assessment of a panel of respected, nonpartisan experts charged with looking at these issue...