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So you're looking at nearly 40 dwrae years. as we know it was before that that the united states had the first touchdown and that was when neil armstrong was the first human being to set foot on the moon. it was absolutely amazing to have historic pictures right here on the website behind me. nasa has tons of them and everyone remembers what a powerful moment it was. and right now what we're seeing what's happening as you know is president obama is talking about his vision for how to handle space exploration in the future. and one thing that he wants to do is drop this program, which is called...

Nitrogen tapg. problem is not putting the astronauts in dame, but if it isn't fixed in the next few days, nasa could be forced to turn off some of the station's electronics. jon: the first man to walk on the moon slamming the obama administration's plans for the future of nasa just one day before the president visits florida to deliver a space policy speech. neil armstrong and fellow astronauts signing an open letter criticizing the decision to scrap nasa's program that would have sent americans back to the moon. joining us now, one of the signers of that letter, captain jim lovell. he was the...

Megyn: those words from the day america changed the world. now the first man to walk on the moon is blasting the obama administration's plan for nasa's future. neil armstrong, along with two other heros of the apollo program, co-signing the following letter to the president which reads in part: megyn: former astronaut is also in charge of the constellation program that's been canceled by the president. allall right, doc, so you're a rocket scientist, astronaut, smart guy, and you're in charge of the program that just got the axe under in few administration -- the new administration policy. why...

Workers and the engineers, now that's what the astronauts are so concerned about. losing this skilled team. once they lose it, they will never be able to get these workers back. if the plan goes forward as the president's proposed for 2011, then you would not only lose shuttle and constellation and other associated, you would lose in this area alone, in this community, 20,000 jobs, 8,000 directly on the kennedy space center itself and in houston at the mission control center you would lose another 11,274. now, nationally, from all centers and all contractors and plants and all of that all acro...

Jobs compared to 8% nationally. so they're highly trained and educated but it's a little unclear still because this vision is vague, at least to those of us who are here. so we don't know if they can transfer. >> the idea of greatly redefining or canceling the constellation program as it is currently laid out, do you fundamentally disagree with that idea or that notion from the president? well, i'm not a space person. i'm a physician. i think that it was very unfortunate that that happened because, you know, that was going to be the bridge to the next, you know, vision of space, and it was goi...