it has supports like buzz aldrin the second man to set foot on the moon. elt the constellation program was too much been there, done that. >> i think going back to the moon and getting there 40, 50 years after we were there in the last century is not demonstrating american leadership. >> reporter: the first man on the moon, neil armstrong does not like the obama plan. neither does the last man to stand on the moon, gene cerna. >> it adds up to philosophical ideas of what we may or may not do. use the word undefined. everything in the budget is undefined. >> some are left wondering if we are thinking digging up. >> i think we have scaled back the ambitions in human space flight. we have left the stage open now to the competitors to feed the opportunity if they wish. >> reporter: of course, florida is important state if you want to get re-elected so president talked about jobs here pointing out the plan saves more jobs than the old plan did and he is opening up the $40 million in federal funds to soften the blow for the workers that might want to be retrained

no landing on the moon by astronauts. and no more humans in space except for at least 20 years. the constellation program to put astronauts back on the moon has about $110 billion left, but it's been zeroed out. the original moon walkers, neil armstrong joined by his fellow astronauts had an open letter criticizing the president for killing the program. they argued that "for the united states, the leading space nation for nearly half a century with no human exploration capability to go beyond earth orbit destines our nation to become one of second or even third rate stature. without the skill and experience that actual spacecraft operation provides, the usa is far too likely to be on a long downhill slide to mediocrity." but neil armstrong's crew mate, buzz aldrin, defends the obama plan. >> people with patience, with an open mind and willingness to listen would understand that this is a doable, exciting program. >> is this the same story? depression of the individual of the human entity and going to a machine that they think they can control? >> no. >> is this something a hume c

been on the moon? next call is huntsville, alabama, david. independent. caller: good morning, gentlemen. your guest has one great talent that i lack. he is very diplomatic. i tend to be blunt. i'm married to a lady who has had a career working for various nasa contractors. the hours she puts in are astronomical. quite simply, mr. obama's agenda is to, pearce by piece -- piece by piece, dismantle the american system. that is what it boils down to. host: why do you say that, ç caller? caller: we have this problem with jobs and what he has done with the stroke of a pen, or attempting to do, is kill thousands of jobs. . planning, people who are thinking into the future. as you have already stated. the constellation program was a well-coordinated, well-designed effort. overnight and by accident. it takes people, it devoted people, that work harder than they are paid. guest: i think the dedication of the nasa family and the contractor community cannot be underestimated. it is certainly one of the privileges

he ran into trouble recently when he told congress, it doesn't matter if china lands on the moon before the u.s. returns. >> it will sound trivial, but i don't think it matters. >> it does to me. i think it matters, with all respect to a lot of americans. >> with the shuttle retiring this year, nasa will pay russia to take astronauts to the orbiting space station for years to come, losing both the shuttle and constellation programs means losing jobs. depending on who you ask, anywhere from 5,000 to 9,000 jobs here in florida are on the line. potentially tens of thousands of jobs nationwide. many of them speciality jobs, like aerospace technician patty sunderland. >> i'm sad. i'm angry on days. >> florida senator bill nelson, a democrat and former astronaut says president obama will pay a big political price in florida if thousands of space jobs are lost. was this a failure to communicate or was it a failure of policy and vision? >> it was a combination. it is my hope that the president understands that the only person that can really lead the nation's human space program is the presiden

astronauts back to the moon. ome of what he had to say earlier today. >> 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 -- [ applause ] >> and we can't just keep on doing the same old things we have been doing and thinking that somehow is going to get us to where we want to go. >> a number of former astronauts have opposed the president's plan but not buzz aldrin. he piloted, of course, the apollo xi lunar module in 1969 and was the second man to step on the moon. good to have you here, sir. >> thank you very much. i'm sorry larry isn't here, but i enjoy talking to you. nice to be with you again. >> that makes two of us. sorry larry's not here. he's back tomorrow, i promise you. let me start by asking about the ride on air force 1 with the president. how was the ride? tell me why you and other astronauts are not -- people like jim lovell -- why are you supporting the president in this move, this change in direction

gene cernan, "the last man on the moon" are aligned. they say we don't think this is a vision for the future. we don't think this is going far enough. what they're hearing in a few hours, what they are expected to hear but don't think it is quite on the beam. one of the things jim lovell said you don't throw money at research and development without knowing exactly what the ultimate goal is. you set the goal and do the research and development. those are critics. president will try to answer them today. at stake, a lot of jobs on the space coast and around the country because nasa employs a lot of people. megyn: brian, white house put out buzz aldrin to talk about his plan earlier this morning. is there any other astronauts besides buzz aldrin supporting on this plan? >> reporter: there is sally ride. that is name i know you have heard from the shuttle program. she is very much in favor of this there are those in the space program who like what the president is proposing who think it is in the right direction. there are a whole lot of pe

maybe they did look at the moon. listen, what we have to understand is, you know, look, there's marital discord. it does not necessarily equate to murder. people fight. it doesn't equate to murder. unfortunately, people get scratched by their wives. that doesn't equate to murder. >> that's true. >> there could be many things that could have happened here. so it's kind of early to speculate about it. and presumably, you know, they did have issues, they did have problems, but that doesn't make them any different from many other married people living in america or mexico. >> yes, joey, you are right. but renee rockwell, defense attorney, who else should we be looking at? fair question. who else should we be looking at? >> well, first of all, it's very reasonable for them to concentrate first on the spouse. it's a little early, though. let's wait for the autopsy to come back. who knows. she could have been sexually assaulted. and just because they were having marital problems does not exclude every other possible suspect

we could just see the sun, the earth, and the moon. phil was given the responsibility to come up with techniques to check our spacecraft attitudes or maneuvers and those kinds of things, using only the sun, earth, and moon, and to continue to refine the techniques of aligning the navigation system on board the lunar module once we did have that. i took my team offline and tried to bear out ways to cut down the return trip time -- tried to figure out ways to cut down the return trip time. there was no way we would make five days. we needed to cut it down to five days or -- for days or three days. we started moving in several different directions. one team worked a power profile. another group worked on navigation techniques. a third group was integrating all of the pieces. my team picked up responsibility to figure out data -- a way to cut a day off the return trip time. we set up a formal ties. we set up working areas down in the control room proper. it was amazing how presidents of corporations would respond to these 26 or 27-year-old

in the late 2020, we would land on the moon. talking to many people, particularly young people, the reaction intended to be, that was my grandfather's space program. i say that with all apologies to buzz aldrin and neil. the next thing that should be mentioned is the area's one, the launch vehicle. of course, it suffered from the problems of the constellations, four years into its life, we conducted the study last summer, a schedule that slipped between three and five years so that it was too late to support the international space station, really too early to support the exploration program in return to the moon. meanwhile, is consuming money that is much needed for heavy launch vehicles and other purposes. the heavy lift launch vehicle is very clear that the station needs a hit or miss launch vehicle, and soon. that was the conclusion of the steady 20 years ago as well. it is a capability in terms of the areas 5, it barely started. much of the money had to be diverted away from it. according to the orion capital, the once agai

i can remember, they said that those guys landed on the moon. was there a similar feeling and mission control? >> it did not take a second for the office to ratchet up the objectives. what are you going to do? and what we're going to do is that the time that the crew is dissenting, we will give them a verbal guidance update. dissenting, we will give them a verbal guidance update. we will try to alter their trajectory so that they can land. they did not do it. i think that the entire mission ahead this. not for change, i was a spectator. it was interesting to watch other people. the mission started off with a real bang. shortly after liftoff, the spacecraft was hit by couple bowls of lightning. the navigation system platform has started crumbling and the electrical system drop off line. -- it was the call that he made. he was just a few seconds and a reflection. he calls the jerry griffin and says that they need thought. this was a recommendation that no flight direction had ever heard. they made a recommendation that no one had ever heard. capcom

been on the moon? t: so far only the americans were on the moon. last was apollo 17 1972. host: next call is huntsville alabama, david. independent. caller: good morning, gentlemen. your guest has one great talent that i lack. he is very diplomatic. i tend to be blunt. i'm married to a lady who has had a career working for various nasa contractors. the hours she puts in are astronomical. quite simply mr. obama's agenda is to pearce by piece -- piece by piece dismantle the american system. that is what it boils down to. host: why do you say that ç caller? caller: we have this problem with jobs and what he has done with the stroke of a pen, or attempting to do is kill thousands of jobs. . these jobs that he is talking about, are they american jobs? i do not think so. much of the cost, as you already stated was to fulfill the legal obligations or contracts. that have been canceled. host: why is hunts will such a center for -- guest: and seville is the home of marshall space park center. they have perhaps t

have you ever had any doubts about the poshs of get together the moon? >> i don't think we know really until the exploration is completed whether it will be worthwhile or not. i certainly think it will be. i don't think we can really pinpoint every answer until we complete the exploration. >> you risked your life and devoted your energy and your time in this race to get to the moon. are you, yourself, convinced beyond question that it's worth doing? and why? >> well, yes, i am, or i wouldn't be in the position i'm in. >> on july 16, 1969, "apollo 11" hurd ld to the sky. then neil armstrong and buzz aldrin became the first to set foot on the moon. aldrin traveled with obama on thursday to show support. his fellow astronaut armstrong remained one of the administration's most vocal critics. we'll be right back. >>> a few programming notes before we go. two important specials coming up on msnbc. today at noon eastern, a discussion debating the black agenda hosted by tamron hall and ed schultz of msnbc. tomorrow night rachel maddow hosts "the mcvay tapes." as

have you ever had any doubts about the poshs of get together the moon? know really until the exploration is completed whether it will be worthwhile or not. i certainly think it will be. i don't think we can really pinpoint every answer until we complete the exploration. >> you risked your life and devoted your energy and your time in this race to get to the moon. are you, yourself, convinced beyond question that it's worth doing? and why? >> well, yes, i am, or i wouldn't be in the position i'm in. >> on july 16, 1969, "apollo 11" hurd ld to the sky. then neil armstrong and buzz aldrin became the first to set foot on the moon. [ male announcer ] where are people with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis going? they're discovering the first self-injectable ra medicine you take just once a month. it's simponi™, and taken with methotrexate, it helps relieve the pain, stiffness, and swelling of ra with one dose a month. visit 4simponi.com to see if you qualify for a full year of cost support. simponi™ can lower your ability to fight infections, including t

they were vacationing at the moon palace, a high-end hotel in the cancun area. there are reports from those who were down there saying that he and his wife had a heated argument, but that he reported his wife missing and she was later found, as you said, in a gutter of the moon palace hotel, and now bruce baris redmond has been detained. he's the only one so far who has been detained in the death of his wife. we don't know the cause of death yet, and we don't know the circumstances surrounding it. we do know they were on a family vacation, but there's no talk of how many kids they had, or where they may have been. we're gathering information now on this, it is breaking as we speak. we'll bring it to you as it comes in, megyn. megyn: trace gallagher, thank you. >>> three more teens, arraigned for contributing to the death of a classmate, 15 phoebie prince said to have taken her own life because of relentless bullies. now we know how the suspects will plead in court. we'll tell you -- we'll tell you after the break. >>> dan quayle served one term as the nation's v

: from the surface of the moon to the factory flo floor, america's prosperity and power dominated much of the 20th century. but the world has changed. >> the mystique of american power, i think, is gone. >> reporter: the u.s. is no longer the sole power towering over the post-cold war era. >> it's not so much we're declining. other countries are coming up. >> reporter: and the report card shows america's foundation is in peril. most alarming, deficits are projected to average over $900 billion every year through 2020. and the nation's debt is the largest in history, $12 trillion and rising. that's more than $80,000 for every american worker. china is now the largest holder of u.s. debt. it's also the largest exporter, and within the next five to seven years, it's expected to surpass the u.s. as the largest manufacturer in the would. >> our prosperity provides a foundation for our power. >> reporter: the problem for america is that its greatness has always been rooted in its economic dominance. >> we're in a real pickle. >> reporter: james baker was treasury secretary under ronald reaga

don take it away. >>> if the moon was looking down, what would he warn you about? >> only one thing to warn you about right now for the morning commute that is an accident in anne arundel county in brooklyn route two, richie highway at hammond place. police remain on the scene. otherwise speeds looking good on 97 as well as 95 and the beltway. there is a look at the beltway, drive times and speeds full speed all around, 11 minute drive times. live look at providence road and 295 at 32. looking good there and 29 at 32 also problem free. remember wjz 13 is always on for traffic information any time you can log onto wjz.com. back over to you don. >>> thank you. here's what people will be talking about today. it is census day, d day for the census, as in deadline day. if you don't send your form in by today. you may soon get a knock at the door. andrea fujii is live with the story. >> reporter: good morning, don and good morning everyone. as of today, most people in the city have not sent in their census forms. so believe it or not, today is the deadline day, if you don

orien is going to allow -- not going to go to the moon. he's going to allow unmanned space. w us to go to the space station and back and be used as an emergency vehicle should astronauts quickly need to get down to earth and the other thing he's going to do, they'll look into sending travelers, us, everyday people into low -- into low gravity. into orbit. not deep orbit but into orbit. so we're going to space and come back down. >> how much will that cost you? s -- us? >> i don't know. maybe it will be taxpayer funded. >> today, the president will tell everybody at nasa how many people will be losing their jobs. >> pay close attention to that speech here on fox. didn't the white house say the 9/11 terror trials won't be held in new york city? somebody should probably tell the attorney general. >> new york is not off the table as a place where they might be tried. >> new york congressman peter cane is steamed and here to react live. >> democrat schumer. the bullying death of phoebe prince got heated. why the police had to be called in. that story coming up. [ female announcer

. >> by 2025, we expect new spacecraft to allow us to begin first ever crude mission beyond the moon eep space. we will start sending the astronauts to an asteroid for the first time in history. >> brian: asteroid with date estimated for 2025. this could be the first step for mission to the moons of mars, eventually on to mars and perhaps have ramifications on this planet as well. we have bill ny, the science guy, who was at the event. i was there as well covering it for the fox news channel. good to see you there. you were very excited about the things that the president had to say. you think that he has set a clear course for the future. do you not? >> yeah. we're going to get, i mean, use nasa, national aeronautics and space administration to go beyond low-earth orbit to deep space. and i'm not sure we'll get to an asteroid by 2025, but we will get to deep space, which might be one of the gravity balance points called the legrange points, but this would be very exciting. very exciting. >> brian: bill, a lot of people look at what happened and including i'm talking prominent names i

we will be seeing their flag on the moon. >> this takes us out of the leadership role in the space program. we cannot give that to anyone. >> these men have made space their life. the next generation would like to know how they will make a different. -- how they will make a living. we are coming to the end of an era. the economic impact is all around us. the community has lived off of the shuttle. now it is about to lose about nine and a half thousand jobs in the space industry and about 20,000 more in the supporting firms. we found that the mood was fragile. >> it will be like a ghost town. >> there will be an economic downturn. >> at one time, this was full of tours, -- stores. >> the president of the chamber of commerce is looking for new business. >> we have been the leaders in the space race for so long that it is easy to forget to be hungry. we have to be hungry. we have to be hungry for new business. >> we have been here 27 years. >> the only way is forward. she has stripe on selling shrimp to hungry customers, she this looking forward to selling the beauty of the area to tourists.

they just recorded their own version of pink floyd's classic album "the dark side of the moon" which elcome the flaming lips. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ breathe, breathe in the air don't be afraid to care leave, but don't leave me look around ♪ ♪ choose your own ground long you live and high you fly and smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry ♪ ♪ and all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be ♪ ♪ run, rabbit run dig that hole forget the sun ♪ ♪ and when at last the work is done don't sit down it's time to dig another one ♪ ♪ for long you live and high you fly but only if you ride the tide ♪ ♪ and balanced on the biggest wave you race towards an early grave ♪ ♪ ♪ oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ >> come on, now! ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: that's the way to do it. that's the way to do it, buddy. that's the way to do it. thank you, wayne. thank you so much. the flaming lips. thank you so much, brother. stardeath and white dwarfs. [ cheers and applause ] "the dark side of the moon" is out on vinyl tomorrow. wow! that was great. my thanks to tracy morgan, kevin and alex

launched the moon-landing program in the 1960's because he understood that any nation that wants to remain number one on earth must also be number one in space. . >> did you do that? >> i will do that, sir. >> any guidance from the department of justice on this? >> i will submit that for the record in this committee. in summary, the discussion with the department of justice had to do with potential termination liability. >> i want to get -- a want to get into areasi i and falcon nine. the independent safety review of rocket options and issued by nasa, the report states that the ares 1 launch nickel is the safest large option and it is superior to all other options. what other options have on the falcon mind? >> we will get what information we have. my comment to people over the last week specifically when asked by senator hatch, my gut tells me that ares would be safer than anything else but that is not what that data says. i will furnish the data. >> the latest plan restructure's b o'brien capsule -- orion rocket with an escape pods. we will pay the russians bought four round-trip. we wil

we do have partly cloudy skies out there this morning but can you see the moon, the half moon. we do have some cloud cover. we will during the course of the early-morning hours which will give way to partly sunny skies later today. no precipitation for us. forecast for today, partly sunny, becoming a little breezy. winds will be out of the the southwest 10 to 15 miles per hour maybe gusting up to about 0 miles per hour or so. high today about 79 degrees but again, it will depend on where you are. some of you will top out over 80 degrees. so there you go. we'll have more details on the forecast coming up in just a little bit. >> okay. thank you. >>> let's check in with julie wright and say good morning to her on this monday morning. >> i was telling tucker just a few minutes ago, sunny and 85, i think i'm coming down with like something. i feel feverish. all right. on the roads this morning, light traffic volume looking good. northbound i-95, that is where we have reports of a stalled car before on the left hov entrance in dumfries. you will find that activity off the rooted to t

. >> three men were on their way to the moon when their lives were suddenly put in danger. >> from. ult, using 1970 technology to explain what was happening. >> the emergency commenced at roughly 56 hours into this "apollo 13" flight. when the "apollo 13" spas craft was more than 200,000 miles away from earth and 40,000 miles away from the moon. and at this point, which is roughly four-fifths of the way from earth to moon, at 56 hours into the flight, the emergency took place. the issue was then how to get them out of it. now, if the command module electrical power system had remain intact they would have turned both spaceships around like so. and fired up the command module service propulsion system engine like that. and done a big burn, a burn of more than 6,000 feet per second, speeding them up by more than 4,000 miles an hour to head them back to earth. this is the service propulsion system engine. that engine is unusable. whatever catastrophe or whatever near-catastrophe took place up there some five hours ago happened back here in the service module. remember we have two vehicl

. >> you hear quotes about how they're more advanced that the space machinery that got us to the moon back in the 60s and 70s and that's true. >> reporter: it takes one look under the hood to see for yourself. compare the machines here. >> computer of one kind or another. you have the engine control module, everything under the hood pretty much is controlled by it. >> reporter: the more they've computerized the easier are to fix. sometimes they even fix themselves. >> a computer can be too helpful. >> yeah, exactly. you still have to do your maintenance, follow the manual about things that have to be changed as certain specific intervals. >> reporter: what about when things go wrong with the actual computer itself? >> there's nobody, no person to point to who designs the electronic system. there are multiple people in multiple teams all coordinating their efforts to design any different part of the vehicle. >> reporter: some experts foresee the day when cars such as those in the movie "i robot" drive themselves. >> what kind of risks whether it involve and will we see fallout of that.

he says his wife left the moon palace resort to go shopping on monday, april 5th and never came back.esday, he flew the children home to california and reported his wife missing. telling a los angeles television station he was very hopeful someone will find my wife very soon. still, she hasn't been located and we're looking. but according to mexican police, his story doesn't add up. the night before she disappeared, several guests at the resort say they heard fighting coming from the couple's room. one guest reportedly heard a woman screaming for help and there's no record of monica leaving the hotel to go shopping. security guards checked all cars entering and leaving. >> i knew that something very wrong had happened. because my sister would never in one million years leave her kids a whole day with the father without her cell phone. >> reporter: family members say the mexican vacation was planned to help the couple sort out problems in their marriage, including that he allegedly had a mistress. >> they had a rocky relationship and i think that was fairly well known, and we know that

" a year later the stock goes to the moon, warren buffett is absolutely correct, john paulson loses his shirt. the question is, does that bother you and could john paulson and the f.c.c. say if the if you'd only told me warren buffett put this stuff together..." >> it's an interesting question. i agree with you. it's an interesting question. it bothers me a little bit but... >> i think the larger issue that this case has exposed that this really is just about trading. when you think of a synthetic c.d.o., so many of these instruments on wall street, it's just another a casino. there's no underlying assets. they don't own these mortgages. people aren't getting mortgages because of this. what's happening is... people are literally betting on the price and that's it. and what is the social utility of that in an environment where the taxpayers have had to take on a huge burden because of these trades, what should be the policy as a result? >> and there certainly ought to be tollsy issues like that addressed, in the beginning as you know there were some state gaming commissions that wanted t

television producer bruce redman has been detained after his wife's body was found in a sewer at the moon palace resort in cancun. he was producer of the cbs show survivor and was on vacation with his family at the resort. witnesses reported they saw the couple arguing before she disappeared. >> good guy, good heart. everybody's just praying for the best. >>> prayer's worked again. a man who's boat sank off the coast of florida swam 12 miles. he was found on the beach days after he was reported missing. he thinks what he on the beach for a few hours before he was found. >> 12 miles! >> amazing. >> reporter: be sure to bring your appetite with you. all the new food you'll find at the yard this year, i promise you'll not be disappointed. >>> catch up with your best friend when you drive to the grocery store anymore, no more chatting and driving. >>> plus: if you went to the orioles fan fest, you did more than just support the team. we'll tell you more about it. details after this. my name is rick muhy. i'm a firefighter. i cook twice a week at the fire station. i'd pick up a lot of the work

missions to the moon, mars and its moons. further cargo capabilities in concert with our international partners extension of the utilization of the international space station to 2020 and beyond. pursuit of cross-cutting space technology led us to the office of the chieftologist spawn game-changing innovations to make space travel for affordable and sustainable. it will enable nasa to substantially accelerate and expand its earth science capabilities including a replacement for the orbitting carbon observatory. aeronautics, including the air transportation system, greena united nation and safe integration -- green aviation msm the pilot program to inspire middle school students and better equip their teachers for improved class performance. we understand that many concerns are being expleasanted about this budget but i believe it is the right vision for nasa. i look forward to this continued discussion with you and your authorizors how we might discuss them. i acknowledge -- i apologize and ask for your continued patience as w

cramped together and using their limited engine power, they had to navigate around the dark side of the moonter the gavational current that would slingshot them back to earth. 40 years ago, a hero's welcome in the pacific ocean. and, last night, the surviving astronauts and some of the heroes from mission control reunited to commemorate the mission that, while failing, showed a neutrkne knew frontier coverage. and they said they are still brothers. have a great night, see you tomorrow.

and there is a sense where the president is almost -- he could have ordered an invasion of the moon in those days afterward, and probably gotten majority support for it. the question i have, what is the responsibility of the military leadership when the civilian leadership, under the pressure of these emergencies which we are going face, overreaches or does something really stupid? [laughing] >> that happens -- in terms of military and national leadership and then there's always been disagreements. i think what you're going to find from the military is sort of trying to sharpen the reason at the policymaking level of the rationale go to war barks most people have been exposed to this, are fairly conservative in the use of that instrument. the military is providing advice and placing options in front of the national leader in terms of what risks are and benefits are, and win we -- when we disagree and don't believe we can execute that, then there's plenty of punt to do something about that. >> what do you mean? >> well, resignation, which was done in full public view, which would crysta

you can say you never investigated it but i think you would probably say the moon is not made out of cheese. >> i certainly would. the reason i spoke up on this bill is simply because there is a lot of division in the country and i believe this would put an end to any future controversy about a president's qualifications. >> you told our producer you voted for this because you get a lot of calls from constituents based on what they read on the internet. isn't it your job to lead and not say who knows what's on the internet. actually hawaii has released this information and it's factually correct? >> as i said, i haven't personally investigated that. i think that if -- >> there's plenty of things you believe you have not personally investigated why this are you holding onto? >> what we're requiring here is for a presidential candidate to demonstrate he is qualified. i don't think having any presidential candidate show he's qualified by demonstrating the requirements of the requirements, that there's any problem with that. >> you told my producer you thought the president spent a milli

. >> buzz and ashley >>> last night, buzz aldron, the second man to walk on the moon walked grace fly away from dancing with the stars after three weeks of competition an standing ovations every time he danced. >> and this has been a very measurable endeavour, and i'm just happy to have been able to stay along as long as we did. >> in 1969, the apollo 11 strnlt made history and became an american hero, all before the age of 40. now at 80 he's ready for new challenges. >> this mission has been scrubbed. what did you learn from this mission? >> volunteer again. make the next one as equal satisfying to me for having put myself forward. >> he tried so, so hard, and he wanted to do the best hecht. he was so charming an adorable. if they were giving point for adorable, come on. >> he's had the best time. i'm sure he's disappoint; but, you know, that's the way it goes. he had a good run, and now i have a dancing husband. >> reporter: buzz aldron, the presidential medal of freedom honoree will not get dancing mirror ball trophy. what he does get is renewed fame and a second win. >> i'm not so

this is where the country sent the first man to the moon. so we need to create the environment. those ph.d.s that you staple the green card for, that's great. but those numbers are dwindling. those numbers are dwindling because the economy is improving. they came from china and india. those economies are improving. those numbers are going down. we need to have the human capitol in this country to be interested in science and engineering. for a while i was in the advisory committee for a national directorate. they founded the national academy to do a study of how much. other kids are interested. the number one attractive, you know, profession, this was right after 9/11, that was a fireman. that is understandable. and doctors. etc. engineering came way down below being a priest. i was shocked. i was shocked at that. [laughter] given the current state of priesthood this doesn't make sense. [laughter] and i won't say the in between. anyway, the point is that we need to change that. again we are in a moment. if you look at the history of science and engineering after sputnik there is

but take nasa's $3.5 million effort to put men back on the moon. d here's what it shows. for those earning $15,000 to $30,000, the constellation program cost $1.62. if you make over $200,000 to $250,000 that bill will be closer to $95. now, the other program that the white house considers outdated in effect or wasteful is the c-17 cargo plane. last year, congress refused to stop production because thousands of workers build this plane in 42 states. but each copy costs $200 million and the pentagon says we don't need anymore. so what can you save if we cut the program? you earn between 15 and 30k, it represents about $1 in taxes if you make $200,000 to $250,000 closing the plant will save you $70. so now it's up to you. you go to this taxpayer calculator and you can tell congress what you think about these things and what you want to do. i will tell you, gretchen, the results will surprise you. not everybody says no on this stuff and we looked at over a dozen programs this week and today, i'll wrap it up, we will be looking at the unemployment insura

he could have ordered an invasion of the moon. in those days afterward and probably gotten majority support for it. so the question i have, what is the responsibility of the military leadership when the civilian leadership under the pressures of the emergencies which we are going to face overreaches or something really stupid? [laughter] >> that happens in terms of military and national leadership -- i mean, there's always been disagreements here. and i think what you're going to find, you know, from the military is sort of trying to sharpen the reason at the policy-making level of the rationale to go to war because most people have been exposed to this quite a bit. you know, but the use of the instrument. but i think at the heart what the military is doing, we're providing advice. we're placing options in front of a national leader in terms of what risks are and what benefits are. and when we disagree in a matter of policy and we don't believe we can execute that, then there's plenty of opportunity there to do something about that

neil armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon from america. commander of apollo 11. james lovely commander of apollo 13. and commander to the state that although some of the president's proposals have merit, the decisioning to cansal the constellation program as area one and area five rockets a and the orion space craft is devastating. they say america's only path to low earth orbit tft to purchase space op their -- at a price of over $50 million per seat with significant increases expected in the near future. until we have the capacity to provide transportation for ourselves. the availablity of a commercial transport to orbit as erin visioned. but likely to take substantially longer and be more expensive than we wourmeds -- it appears we will have wasted our current $10 billion-plus and years required to recreate the convince lent of what we have now discarded. for the united states, the leading space-bearing nation for half a century to be without carriage to low earth orbit and with no human expore ration fotch just as our nation to become one of the second or thir

and on a specific tiny one, let's say something like the moon by typing, do we actually want to look at mystery that is an issue that has to be addressed. so these two have to be addressed. >> lady ramzi? >> i wanted to ask follows on farewell with what was just been discussed. do you really think that the existing arrangements for the strategic overview of national security strategy are adequate? i mean, i know we are very waited in this country to the idea of late departments, and this is the philosophy of how it hopes to work. but there's also an argument i think can be made, and do you feel this has been strengthened by your experience over the last two, three years for one specific point of a cabinet department, if you like, on security? now, it always seems the way we think about things, for example, with the small contingency bill was going through parliament, it was quite clear everyone was passionate to avoid looking as if we were clogging of homeland security department. but in doing that if we don't perhaps landed too far away from that, and isn't there a case and what do

the private sector requires years of further development before it can send a human being to the moon or compete with america's international rivals. the aerospace safety advisory panel, a group of independent experts created by congress, reported in january that no manufacturer of commercial orbital transportation services is currently qualified for human ratings requirements, despite some claims and beliefs to the contrary. the panel is warned to abandon the constellation program for an alternative without demonstrated capability or proven superiority is unwise and probably not cost-effective. nasa was assigned the constellation mission for the same reason it took on apollo. it remains the only entity in the country capable of getting the job done. so what should president obama say when he visits the kennedy space center this week? i'd like to offer just a few thoughts. first, i would hope that president obama would recognize the tremendous uncertainty that his administration has created by proposing to end the constellation program without identifying a viable alternative. second,

committed itself to sending astronauts back to the moon and later to mars. you need something new for them to fly. the answer is aries one who had its first unmanned flight and dazzled even the skeptics. that doesn't sound like there's no demonstration of reliability. i think there's a definition problem. none of other things you talked about can match the tested perfection of earless with the test that has already been done. so i challenge that one. number two, the industrial base. you said the president will make a decision as to what will be done by 2015. if you kill the industrial base of solid rocket motors now with this action, in 2015, you cannot get it back. this is not like -- this is not saying, well, we're going to stop buying this kind of car and we'll look at buys another kind of car or pickup truck or suv four or five years from now and there is an industrial base that will have them. this is the only game in town. and you shut down the industrial base rockets, solid rocket motors and there will be no contractors available in 2015 if you make th

if transforming the mission to the moon into a fight for survival. a former astronauts mark the occasion yesterday during an appearance in illinois. >> the crew of the space shuttle discovery marked that anniversary with a spacewalk. we'll show you how it went of >> a little later, from "the tonight show" to cbs. >you are watching abc 7's good morning washington. with doug mcelway, alison starling, meteorologist brian van de graaff, and lisa baden with traffic. this is good morning washinton on your side. >> checking our top stories. the second day of the nuclear security summit means another day of roadblocks and tighten security near the d.c. convention center. things were going pretty well until yestery. a late afternoon accident. a bicyclist died after colliding with a five-ton military truck at new york avenue and 12th street. two astronauts from the space shuttle discovery are in the middle of their third and final space walk at the international space station. if they picked up where they left off on sunday, connecting lines to the new ammonia

in 2004, president bush announced they would start a new space program to return to the moon. one of the objectives would be a reduction and the standing army of workers that build the space shuttle which is a great, fantastic vehicle, but it is immensely labor intensive so they wanted something cheaper. the idea that there would be an end to the shuttle program, a loss of jobs, and the gap between the start of the new program has been around for six years. a lot of people kind of ignored it. the gap grew. florida was always looking at a loss, some people said of the time of 6500 jobs. with the cancellation of the follow-on the moon a program which was constantly slipping, under-funded, becoming more expensive on its own because of technological problems, the gap grew from an original two years to the now seven years. there is nothing else behind. so, they are looking at around 1000 potential job losses with an indirect losses of as much as 14 losses. that is in an area of florida that is already 12.6% and its unemployment rate. the local devastation would be huge. host: the pr

so i guess we've -- >> we're not going back to the moon. 're going to the space place and guitterez. >> hey, chris. >> good morning, guys. what's amazing for these shuttle launches, i've covered a few shuttle launches from the vantage point of mission control at the johnson space center. to be here at the space coast at the kennedy space center and feel that vibration, the launch pad 39a where discovery took off from is three miles from we are. you can still feel it and your chest is pounding and the darkness of night turns bright as day as it took off. it is really something spectacular to see and remember, there are three more launches scheduled by, i think, the last one is september 16th of this year. but man, if you haven't seen one or been a part of one, it's something else, guys. >> countdown is coming. three more left, right? >> that's right. >> all right, chris guiterrez at the space place, thank you very much. it's 29 minutes before the top of the hour. let's take a look at some of your headlines for this monday after easter. nato a

constellation was to be our way to go to the moon and to mars. a crew vehicle made up the rocket, o'briant accrued past capsule, the cargo vehicle made up of ares number five and also the crew moon lander. now, let me just say what my position is. i need to know more and that's the purpose of this series and if we need to have more, we're going to do it. congress needs to know more. we await to the american people. we'll it to the taxpayers and we go to the astronauts to be very clear about what we are going to do and how are we going to do it. i need to know more details. i want to know if this is the program that a congress and the american people are going to support or one administration to the next. we cannot reinvent nasa every four years. every new president can't have a new nasa agenda. that's the purpose of today's hearing. we're here to get the facts. it's not about finger-pointing, it's about pinpointing. i've been in contact with the leaders in the space field including our colleague, senator shelby, as well as bill nelson, our commerc

the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth> reporter: eight years later the world watched neil armstrong do just that. some this weekend in alabama created their own moon recover. >> we thought it was cool opportunity. >> reporter: the opportunity of space flight have from the beginning been frought with risk. >> a major malfunction. >> reporter: the loss of challenger and its seven crew members. the loss of seven more aboard columbia. then the disaster averted when heroism and a refusal to accept defeat resulted in what many remember as nasa's finest moments 40 years ago today. apoll l apollo 13 has been called nasa's most successful failure. >> they flipped switches and reset. this can't be. they don't want to believe this. their crew is 200,000 miles from the earth. >> reporter: as the world held their breath. they turned it into a lifeboat to power their way back to earth. after just six moon landings, today's space missions are closer to home. right now seven american astronauts are in orbit above the earth. among them a