ed mitchell, last crew member of "apollo 14" to walk on the earth. thank you for joining us. >> thank you, scott. a pleasure to be with you. >> an honor to be with you. let's start with the more recent news that president obama has discussed this idea of canceling the latest missions that would have gone to the moon. the next set of missions. what was your reaction to that? >> i'm disappointed. however, there were problems with the technologies that were coming along. i understand. i'm not close to them. and also the president has an enormous task of rebuilding our economy and so i understand that that's his prime objective. however, recent developments from nasa itself suggests that where this is going is using the nasa to encourage private entrepreneurial activity in space opposed to all being primarily funded and promoted by government. but in other words bringing private contractors in. so that seems an appropriate direction very much like the beginning of aviation. very shortly we have aviation companies and we now have airlines. maybe we'll hav