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President's Space Ideas
Aired January 15, 2004 - 08:26 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: And you well know that scientists and politicians can always debate the merits, but it's the taxpayers that are going to have to foot the bill on going into space.
Jeanne Moos has asked a few citizens on the street if they found the president's space ideas a little too taxing.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Why just shoot for the moon when you can use it as a launching pad to shoot for Mars?
(on camera): Should we colonize the moon? Should we send men to Mars?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do golf.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, I work in travel, so if we do, I hope I'm there in a professional role.
MOOS (voice-over): Frank Sinatra once dedicated this song to the astronauts who walked the lunar surface.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP FROM PBS' "GREAT PERFORMANCES")
FRANK SINATRA: Fly me to the moon...
(END VIDEO CLIP)
MOOS: But flying to the moon requires...
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP FROM PBS' "GREAT PERFORMANCES")
SINATRA: ... pennies from heaven.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
MOOS: Billions of dollars worth. And there's the rub.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think Mars is the last on the priority list. Don't hate me, everybody.
MOOS: Hate her? Many agreed with her.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The moon is great, Mars is great, deal with what we've got to deal with here first.
MOOS (on camera): And I should point our you're crying because it's cold, you're not touched at the question.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's cold. I'm not touched.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think we should look after America first.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think there's too much money being spent on that. There's too many problems here that the money should be spent on.
MOOS (voice-over): But others feel like we've been running in place in space.
(on camera): You're an electrician?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
MOOS: Can you imagine wiring the moon?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'd love to. I love hanging off of tall buildings and, you know, doing all that kind of stuff. To look down at Earth would be awesome.
MOOS (voice-over): And then there's Mars, the planet that shares its name with a candy bar found in that most alien of places, Saddam Hussein's hideout. Already, the car maker Audi is using obstacles in the way of the Mars rover to advertise its all wheel drive.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: But I could tell you who would be my candidate to be the first person we could send to the moon.
MOOS (on camera): Who's that?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: President Bush.
MOOS (voice-over): They figure man wouldn't make it to Mars for another 30 years.
(on camera): So you'll be 56? You'd make an old astronaut by then, 56.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think I'd make an old, but a very good, handsome looking astronaut.
MOOS (voice-over): Though maybe not the Martians' type.
Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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Aired January 15, 2004 - 08:26 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: And you well know that scientists and politicians can always debate the merits, but it's the taxpayers that are going to have to foot the bill on going into space.
Jeanne Moos has asked a few citizens on the street if they found the president's space ideas a little too taxing.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Why just shoot for the moon when you can use it as a launching pad to shoot for Mars?
(on camera): Should we colonize the moon? Should we send men to Mars?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do golf.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, I work in travel, so if we do, I hope I'm there in a professional role.
MOOS (voice-over): Frank Sinatra once dedicated this song to the astronauts who walked the lunar surface.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP FROM PBS' "GREAT PERFORMANCES")
FRANK SINATRA: Fly me to the moon...
(END VIDEO CLIP)
MOOS: But flying to the moon requires...
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP FROM PBS' "GREAT PERFORMANCES")
SINATRA: ... pennies from heaven.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
MOOS: Billions of dollars worth. And there's the rub.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think Mars is the last on the priority list. Don't hate me, everybody.
MOOS: Hate her? Many agreed with her.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The moon is great, Mars is great, deal with what we've got to deal with here first.
MOOS (on camera): And I should point our you're crying because it's cold, you're not touched at the question.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's cold. I'm not touched.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think we should look after America first.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think there's too much money being spent on that. There's too many problems here that the money should be spent on.
MOOS (voice-over): But others feel like we've been running in place in space.
(on camera): You're an electrician?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
MOOS: Can you imagine wiring the moon?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'd love to. I love hanging off of tall buildings and, you know, doing all that kind of stuff. To look down at Earth would be awesome.
MOOS (voice-over): And then there's Mars, the planet that shares its name with a candy bar found in that most alien of places, Saddam Hussein's hideout. Already, the car maker Audi is using obstacles in the way of the Mars rover to advertise its all wheel drive.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: But I could tell you who would be my candidate to be the first person we could send to the moon.
MOOS (on camera): Who's that?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: President Bush.
MOOS (voice-over): They figure man wouldn't make it to Mars for another 30 years.
(on camera): So you'll be 56? You'd make an old astronaut by then, 56.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think I'd make an old, but a very good, handsome looking astronaut.
MOOS (voice-over): Though maybe not the Martians' type.
Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
O'BRIEN:
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
