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It\u2019s goodnight moon from President Obama, as he calls for canceling the program that would return astronauts to the moon by 2020. We\u2019ll hear from the private sector, which might win in this deal, and consider whether we should really replace human explorers with robots.\nPlus, if we can\u2019t fly you to the moon, would you settle for a few acres and a deed? Meet the man who claims to have property on the moon \u2013 but will it hold up in court?\nWernher von Braun was one of America\u2019s premier rocket engineers and, a new book contends, an enthusiastic supporter of the Nazi party. Find out what the U.S. space program was willing to ignore for the prize of beating the Russians to the moon.\nGuests:\n\n\nBurt Rutan - Aerospace engineer, founder of Scaled Composites and designer of SpaecShipOne and SpaceShipTwo\n\n\nSteven Weinberg - Nobel Prize-winning physicist at University of Texas at Austin and author of Lake Views: This World and the Universe\n\n\n\nPhil Chapman - First Australian-born astronaut and Apollo 14 Mission Scientist, now a consultant on energy and astronautics\n\n\nSteven Durst - Editor of Space Age Publishing\n\n\nFrans von der Dunk - Professor of space law at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln\n\n\nWayne Biddle - Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Dark Side of the Moon: Wernher von Braun, the Third Reich, and the Space Race\n\n\nDescripci\xf3n en espa\xf1ol\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices