Asked if he thinks Obama is listening to criticism of declining funding for space exploration, Cernan replied, "No, I don't. I don't think he understands what America and what the traditions have been, and what being the leader of the free world has meant to the people of this country. It goes downhill. We are what we are today and we have unique and special things that other countries don't have because of what we have been for the last 230-some odd years."
He added: "We could give billions of dollars away to rescue a car company and we never get half of it back, but we can't find a little money here and there to recreate the technology that [is needed] to challenge the future."
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