nitrogen tapg. problem is not putting the astronauts in dame, but if it isn t fixed in the next few days, nasa could be forced to turn off some of the station s electronics. jon: the first man to walk on the moon slamming the obama administration s plans for the future of nasa just one day before the president visits florida to deliver a space policy speech. neil armstrong and fellow astronauts signing an open letter criticizing the decision to scrap nasa s program that would have sent americans back to the moon. joining us now, one of the signers of that letter, captain jim lovell. he was the apollo 13 commander and navigator for apollo 8. also a signer, as i mentioned, of that joint letter to the president. captain lovell, it s good to tuck to you again. you say, in essence, you think this decision to cancel the constellation program was shortsighted given the budget constraints that our country is
jon: happening now in the top box, a new warning about the h1n1 flu. the chairman of the world health organization s emergency committee says the virus is still a threat to healthy young adults. in the middle box, hundreds of folks in iceland forbes ed out of their homes after a spectacular volcano under a glacier rumbled back to life shooting smoke and steam into the air. wow. bottom box, toyota suspends sales of the 2010 lex us gx x 40 after consumer reports gave the suv a rare do not buy rating due to safety concerns. jane: nasa s scrambling to fix a problem with the brand new cooling system on the international space station. astronauts could be forced to make an unexpected space walk. flight managers are having no luck opening a freshly-installed
criticizes the decision to scrap nasa s constellation program to send americans back to the moon, writing: without the skill and experience that actual spacecraft operations provide, the u.s.a. is far too likely to be on a long downhill slide to mediocrity. and tomorrow we ll be joined by gene sirnin, the cosigner of the letter to the president and we ll ask his take on the future of the space program and what may be lost if we don t invest heavily in that. bill: a great guest. martha: he is a great guest. bill: check in on that tomorrow. a one year pay freeze for the year and pay 1.5% of their salary, for the full-time medical benefits that they get, medical, dental and vision. and that would save $800 million, and wipe out all but $20 million of our cuts and there would be no layoffs, and no program cuts, and, all the stuff is about the union s greed, rather than putting the kids first. bill: the new jersey republican
america s space program are blasting president obama s decisions regarding nasa. we ll talk with jim lovell to find out why. the latest on the american woman who sent the russian child she adopted back home alone on a plane. we ll talk to the head of the adoption agency involved in this case, a lot of questions, coming up. martha: take you now back to capitol hill. there is very interesting back and forth, of course the attorney general, eric holder, he s being questioned now by charles grassley, senator grassley and he originally raised the question of the number of people who work in the justice department, lawyers who had work in the past, representing gitmo detainees. and he believes that that presented a conflict of interest. when they work for the same administration in government that now wanted to go after some of those people. and that is the line of questioning going on right now and i want to play a sound bite that harkens back to another controversial issue he has dealt w
so it doesn t matter who controlled congress because you still can get as much pork as you want. and over three years, get this, over three years thad cochran has sent $2 billion in earmarks back to his state. jane: we ll see what senator cochran has to say. some members have said in past years i m just doing good work for the people in my home district. david williams, thank you. get more on the story at foxnews.com, see how your senator voted on the earmark wan. you can just click on our home page. jon: wouldn t you like to just be able to ask for money? [laughter] jane: isn t that what happens in your house? that s what your wife says. jon: it doesn t work that way. [laughter] pioneers of america s space program slamming president obama s plans for nasa. we ll get a live report from washington. and a former astronaut and one of the leaders of the program to send our astronauts back to the moon weighs in. all of this and a whole lot more coming up on america live