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Exacerbated. i'm not giving up on being able to find, you know, help our contractor family members find ways they can transition their people to other jobs. >> reporter: so it is really, don, tough times now for nasa, facing the end of the shuttle program, no constellation program, not likely, anyway, unless congress steps in. so it is going to be an interesting year in the space program. >> tough time for a lot of folks and now feeling it at nasa. john zarrella, thank you very much. it is all beautiful to watch the space shuttle. you can see the shuttle launch live on cnn early tomorrow morni...

Scientists hope it will do. the company says the project would not have happened without stimulus funds. in fact, the company's opener had pulled out because of the financial crisis. now they hope to have that plan up and running in 2014. and we are keeping our eye on that and lots of other projects in the $862 billion stimulus bill right here at the cnn stimulus desk. well, as we told you this morning, "endeavour" did not takeoff. it is only one of five shuttle launches left. they will try it again tomorrow. we have a beautiful live picture of it as it still sits right now. the picture is n...

Security as well? >> if people want not to spend as much, but spend what we do correctly and this concept doesn't do either of them. not only are we talking about space shuttle programs, but we are also talking about the skill set to make those rockets that lifts us up to the space station and beyond are the same skill sets that defend our country and our missile system. so, if you're going to cut this program, you're not only doing a serious harm to our space industry and space program, you're equally doing the same harm to our missile defense system. >> brian: the russians have a robust syst...

>>. do you think that congress will step in? >> i hope so, 20,000 jobs in private sector on the line. not just jobs, rare skilled jobs not just for the space system, but our missile defense system as well. it's a defense issue. the defense department said in a report to us last june if you slow down this aires constellation program. >> brian: not everybody liked the constellation program, it was the only thing on the drawing board. now we're starting over. >> this one thing by a rogue administrator in nasa is picked up, but there is no backup. no idea what they're going to do. when the space s...

The president propeses giving nasa about $6 billion, the question is, how would that money be used. brian wilson is in d.c. to try to answer this. brian, does the president's vision mean that the united states basically is walking away from man's exploration of space? >> reporter: i think that's a fair question. the shuttle program is winding down this year, the president is killing off the constellation program which was the bush-era plan to send americans back to the moon but nasa administrator charles bolden insists the u.s. is not getting out of the business of man-assisted space flight. t...