would be pretty close to 2030 and i m sure the chinese and indians and others would be there by that time in a competitive race. i think it s much better for us to take our experience and an international lunar development corporation where we have a majority position and help out the other nations. we put a large amount of money into that space station and i m glad that we have extended it another five years so we can test out the equipment that we need for long duration flight which we don t have right now and weren t going to get from the constellation program. we need to reorient the orion craft so it s an orbit to orbit spacecraft that is reuseable and gives us a specialized transportation for mars back to the united states back to the earth orbit where a spacecraft from the earth, a commercial spacecraft from the earth will be up there and rendezvous with
exceptional. should it become more private? should we incentivize on the private side? i m out free market ideas. sounds like a great idea. the tricky marketing thin. he s raising the budget of the space program while cutting the constellation program. look, the bottom line is, armstrong,ç lovell are all against it. i had pleasure of having christmas dinner at his restaurant outside chicago this is not a grandstanding guy. if he is speaking out on this, it is because he thinks has to. fact that armstrong is peeking out is what is astonishing. aldrin armstrong is almost never heard from. sean: you use the term american exceptionalism. the president dismissed that awe [ talking over each other ] there s a train in the democratic party thatç upsets
on the road again did you smoke a few joints, go on stage and sing. sure. oh, sure. did you smoke pot today? yeah. before you came here? yeah. can t wait to see that tomorrow night. larry king tomorrow night back in this chair with willie nelson. tonight, a few more minutes with buzz aldrin. we learned about your iphone app. how cool was it to be on dancing with the stars, buzz? i think it was an honor to be selected to represent those people and because of the contributions of the apollo program in the past. i think it reminded people of the great successes of apollo and got them in a timely way to think about the transition that we have from the constellation
lejunesse here from california because the government plans to stop production of a military plane and is canceling further moon missions by nasa. how much of your money would the government save by canceling those plans? william, you ve broken down all the numbers for us thankfully. yeah. you know, balancing the budget isn t easy and everybody agrees we have to cut spending but like all cuts, they hurt and right now, the defense and space lobbies are squealing like a stuck pig. they re complaining about the president s plan to kill those two programs from his budget. but take nasa s $3.5 million effort to put men back on the moon. we crunched the numbers on the taxpayer calculator, on foxnews.com and 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 yea
mission control, simulators, the training. it doesn t make sense to me. bret: president obama at the kennedy space center announcing increase in the nasa budget but also saying the constellation program in place will be canceled. to do that, that costs $2 billion. where are we in the space program? and what the president is talking about? we re back with the panel. charles? we are seeing the abolition of the manned space program. when neil armstrong speaks out, that is an event. the most self-afacing american hero in our history. he could have been lindbergh and he became j.d. salinger and now he speaks out in an open letter together with sernon, the last guy that walked on the moon and james level the commander of apollo