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Built. the obama administration has picked up that same to retire the space shuttle. a lot of people argue they have three great space shuttling and keep flying nemle approximate we have a robert na nasa can play. it has their own spacecraft to put in orbit and building the constellation. in the proposal, he's canceling the constellation program. even though he's increased the budget of nasa, there will be less people working witness nasa and contractors, alex. there's no roblt to ride on. they have to ride at 54 doll dmoil a seat eye a space crash. i go see myself. they hope he will bring som...

Our capacity, even for a short period of time, of getting people up. but that $6 billion says, we want to make things move forward. so i think that's a discussion not about, you know, people interpret the cancellation of a constellation program as we're not involved in space explo explorati exploration. that's not either shape or form. that's a program where i'm not so sure it was good to harken back to the glory days of apollo. we have more stuff in front of us. of that's what we have. when we have women and underrepresented minorities, this it diversity of people involved with solutions to t...

As president obama prepares to hold a space conference, he faces backlash for his decision to end nasa's constellation program. a member of the commission which studied the issue joins us from houston. good to have you. thanks for joining us. were you surprised? i think a lot of people were surprised when the obama administration came out and said the constellation program to go back to the moon and then on to mars, that was the first step toward mars is dead, it's over, it's carrie kaput. were you surprised to hear that? >> i was surprised what the entire program was canceled. i expected elem...

Nasa. right now the shuttle is on the launch pad ahead of a mission to deliver more equipment to the international space station. despite the president's planned announcement, florida's two senators say they have concerns about nasa's future. that's because the president scrapped the constellation program that was meant to replace the shuttle fleet and without either program up and running, florida stands to lose many thousands of jobs and lots of tax money. the man in charge of the shuttle fleet says america's manned space program will be put on hold. >> it's amazing that we're headed down a ...

Next month's program in florida, have not yet been released by the white house, bill. bill: steve, are you still with us? >> >> reporter: yes. bill: what about the shuttle program? what does the president have in mind for that? >> reporter: well, his budget would end space shuttle operations at the end of this year and right now, nasa, a news conference is underway to highlight the next shuttle mission, set for next month, while at the same time, there is a move in congress to push back on the president's space program budget, it will be circulated in the louse and senate to keep the shuttle g...