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Insists constellation was not a waste of money. >> the constellation program has taught us the things that work, the things that we could have done better. >> reporter: ironically, the flap comes at a time nasa says it may not have enough money to building a new, bigger rocket congress and the white house have mandated to replace, you guessed it, the constellation program. senators hutchison of texas and nelson of florida have introduced a bill that would allow nasa to stop paying for the aries program. right now that bill is sitting in committee. ali? >> john, thanks very much. and of course,...

Doing. over the years, there's been no shortage of criticism about how nasa spends its money, your money. the space agency is again at the center of another "how did this happen" head scratcher. but this time, it's not all nasa's fault. >> it's certainly not the way you would spend the money if you were trying to be economical about it. and frankly, i think taxpayers should be annoyed by that, outraged by it, even. >> outraged because nasa has spent more than $200 million and climbing, just in the last few months on the consolation program and its aries rocket. it was going to replace the shut...

Language inserted in last year's bill by alabama senator richard shelby prohibits nasa from using the money for anything but constellation. so why doesn't nasa just not spend the cash? well, by law, nasa has to. a watchdog group, citizens against government waste, recently gave shelby its, quote, porker of the month award. >> senator shelby inserted a provision into one of the spending bills and it forced nasa to continue funding a program that's wasteful. it's really another example of a hometown earmark for a project that isn't going to benefit the taxpayers. >> alabama is home to nasa's mar...

Himself in the chest. his family has agreed to donate his brain to a center that's doing research in what it calls the concussion crisis in sports. now, in the next hour,time going to discuss violence in sports with today's stream team. today the team will be joined by former nfl star, eddie george. that's coming up around 2:45 eastern. in the meantime, go to my blog or go to my facebook page and give me your input. are sports today too violent? if so, what do you think can be done to fix it? go to cnn.com/ali, go to facebook, or go to my twitter page. well, the next space shuttle launch is ...