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Investment and put it on the shelf as far as i'm concerned. i don't care how people want to sugar coat it, we are no longer a space exploration, a space exploring nation, we are now put in a position of second place and what we don't do today, i promise you, someone else is going to do tomorrow and i don't think the american people are going to like that. jon: the chinese are getting pretty aggressive with their mission to get a man on the moon, aren't they? >> well, i think they are, we hear they are, and i think we can expect almost anything. there are so many ramifications. there is about $...

Barack obama, he said, could inspire like kennedy or de-fund like nixon. today the proposed white house budget boldly goes where both presidents have gone before. nasa's constellation program initiated in the wake of the 2003 space shuttle "columbia" disaster, today it happens to mark seven years since that awful tragedy and constellation's goal sent astronauts to the international space station, returned them to the moon by the year 2020. the obama budget canceled constellation, which is described as behind schedule, over budget, and lacking innovation. nasa's current administrator, charles b...

Budget boldly goes where both presidents have gone before. nasa's constellation program initiated in the wake of the 2003 space shuttle "columbia" disaster, today it happens to mark seven years since that awful tragedy and constellation's goal sent astronauts to the international space station, returned them to the moon by the year 2020. the obama budget canceled constellation, which is described as behind schedule, over budget, and lacking innovation. nasa's current administrator, charles bolden, saying on a conference call today, quote, we were not a sustainable path to get back to the moon'...

Exploration with two presidents. barack obama said he could inspire like kennedy or defund like nixon. they boldly go where both have gone before. nasa's constellation program initiated with the columbia disaster, but today it happened to mark sen years since the awful tragedy and they send astronauts to the international space station and returned them to the moon by the year 2020. they cancel it when oorn overbudget and behind. the administrator said in a conference call, we were not on a sustainable path to get back to the moon's surface. you own land on the moon, sell now. the white house ...

All right, thanks very much, lisa. good report. as lisa just noted, the budget would pull the plug on nasa's massive effort to return astronauts to the moon by the end of the decade. cnn's john zarrella is joining us from miami. john, where does nasa go from here with all of the scrubbing of the -- what's called the constellation program? >> you know, wolf, it was just three months ago that the ares 1 rocket, first test flight, very successful, very likely the first and last test ever of the ares rocket. ares 1 scrubbed, the orion is gone. what did win, though, was the space station, which wil...