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And comes with a 60-day money back guarantee. today's enrollments also include... a free document shredder. call now and mention "today"... or visit lifelock.com. ♪ i'm patti ann browne. president obama lays out his vision of the u.s. space program. he told nasa employees he expects america to send naughts to -- astronauts to send asteroid to mars and he is 100% committed to the nasa future. ban over the flying over skies of united kingdom has been extended to tomorrow morning. there were huge clouds of ash from erupting volcano in iceland.

There's a sense here of a greater purpose and that is supporting human access to space beginning to do research and development, giving us the opportunity to go to new places and discover new things. i mean, there really is an exploration aspect to the space program that we have today and the people here are bound together to support that activity and be part of that overall accomplishment. it's not just an accomplishment for people here. it's really something that america should be proud of and that we're here to do that for them. >> you've got to be able to pay for it. president obama's plan...

Underneath his fingernails. the records did not sell at auction, good news for sir tom who will be 70 in june. he was knighted about four years ago. jon: and guess who we've got now? tom jones! not the singer, this guy is an astronaut and very smart guy. dr. tom jones is with us to talk about president obama. he's enroute to the kennedy space center in florida to unveil his administration's plans for the future of the u.s. space program. so far the white house has axed the constellation program that would have sent astronauts back to the moon. the president wants to put private companies at th...

More money and his full commitment to the u.s. space program. but under his administration, nasa will head on a very different trajectory than what it had planned. mr. obama traveled to florida's kennedy space center today to explain his vision to a skeptical audience. >> the bottom line is, nobody is more committed to manned space flight, to human exploration of space, than i am. but we've got to do it in a smart way. and we can't just keep on doing the same old things that we've been doing and thinking that somehow is going to get us to where we want to go. >> cnn white house correspondent s...

Criticism from the nasa community? >> well, the white house is responded and we expect to hear the president make the case, look, we understand what you're feeling here, but you will be a part of something bigger, just hold on here. let's step aside. use this money for research and development, for even bigger missions like say going to mars later on down the road. in the meantime try to provide support for these private companies to shuttle back and forth, these u.s. astronauts. and it's not just the white house. we have heard from supporters, buzz who was the second man to land on the moon, ...