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Policy? does nasa now have to change his plans or was he just expressing an opinion? that's a mystery. coming up on "apollo 11" this summer. a big summer full of space celebration events. i think a lot of space geeks would like to focus, to be on mars, to go somewhere where you have not been before. the president might be onto something with this focus on mars. >> if they want to focus on space, you have a new podcast. >> apolo and beyond the moon. apolo podcast. talking about the anniversary. >> let's talk about some of the other weets we've seen from the president this week. he likes to go a...

A single ticket matched all six months of last night's $530 million mega millions jackpot drawing. they are 17, 19, 27, 40, 68, and the gold megaball, 2. the jackpot is the seventh largest in the history of the game. congratulations to them. president trump's newest nasa tweet has confused everyone on social media. in this tweet the president appears to be backing off his earlier goal of putting americans back on the moon by 2024. as brian stelter now explains, eight on to mars. -- it's on to mars. >> this is a bit of a flip-flop for president trump but it's a flip-flop that makes space geek...

Fights. manu raju, cnn, capitol hill. president trump has also been thinking about the united states' role in space. >> he has been beefing up the space agency's budget, bullpen now he is changing his mind about its goals. brian stelzer explains now it is on to mars. >> reporter: yeah, this is a bit of a flip-flop from president trump from it makes space geeks very happy. they want to see america or some other country land on mars and that is what trump is now emphasizing. in a tweet on friday, he is saying for all the money we are spending, nasa should not be talking about going to the moon...

The insight probe on mars, tasked with looking at the interior of the red planet and just days into the new year, china's space agency landed its own probe on the little examined dark side of the moon. joining me now, the agency grabbing so many headlines lately. administer bride enstein, thank you for being with us. >> it's good to be here. >> we are space geeks on this show. there's a lot i want to talk about space, but nasa is one of the government agencies sounding the alarm and more frequently now on climate change. nasa's earth sciences program is particularly good at measuring and track...

Minutes. it is being followed all the way on its journey, which has been 300 million miles and 6 1/2 months by two satellites marco a and marco b. they have been transmitting back the information and have just confirmed, as you heard there from the exciting mission control room, that it has indeed landed. we're in a room with a lot of media and lot of what i would describe as space geeks. all extremely excited that this has happened successfully. this was the riskiest part of this mission. it began a long time ago in the minds of these nasa scientists dreaming up this mission. one scientist to...