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There for the constellation program. the problem that some are looking at is that program a lot of money has been dumped into it. a lot of other stimulus money. josh levs crunching some of these numbers for us. >> i'll tell you how this breaks down. it's a heck of a lot of money we're talking about, a quarter billion dollars spent for the program. i pulled up some video from nasa's video. you can see kind of what this is and what it's all about. the idea here is to return man to the moon. this was the big plan that nasa had under way to get there. they've gotten a lot of funding. $557 million ...

Have an update for you. we talked about the nasa constellation program, the space program that was supposed to bring man back into space. this was nasa's big project. a quarter billion in stimulus funding has been spent on it. the white house says it's not efficient and they will put money into another program. now we hear from nasa that they will put $50 million in stimulus money now into whatever this new technology is going to be. so they are saying this is a new chunk of stimulus funding they will use to develop new technology, of course, as we know. plenty of questions out there. how much...

Pressure from florida senators, this is a swing state. is he going to be able to stick by this plan to get rid of the moon mission and to privatize lots of nasa? >> yeah. let's be clear about what we're doing. first of all, nasa's budget actually goes up. there is this existing program, the constellation program, which is over budget, it's behind schedule, it's based on returning men or women to the moon, which we've already done. we're saying, yes, let's put some additional resources into nasa, but let's do so in a way that will leapfrog and get us to the new technologies that will allow huma...

Do. >> sean: a broken promise that won't be foregotten any time soon. >> sean: joining me are two of the former united space alliance employees, terry white and tony dees. welcome to the program. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> sean: the president talked about we are going to grow the economy and protect jobs and continue supporting nasa and continue funding the success of the shuttle program. did he do that? >> no, he did not. we knew the shuttle was ending but constellation was supposed to come online and he canceled the constellation program. >> you are not working. you are an...

>> it's obviously really nice that, for example, discovery went into the smithsonian last week. i was there for that event. we now have enterprise going into new york. a lot of people are getting to see the shuttles. the problem we have is that we were going to retire the shuttles, and we had a replacement program, which was the constellation program to go on to the moon and mars and astroids and beyond. and unfortunately the administration canceled the follow-on program. when i met with people at the smithsonian last week they were excited to see a shuttle but they were pretty distressed that...