I hope that the President and the Congress will give the Administrator exactly what you said, the flexibility so that he could utilize that ...
It is our view that that is very important to add that to the Fiscal Year 2011 budget.
How is he going to keep this extraordinarily talented workforce operating?
we believe that is true. We, of course, assume good management of that additional money.
From your lips to the President's ears.
Well, that would be then more like Option 5C, flexible path Shuttle derived?
So you are talking early 2020s you could have Ares V Lite ready.
I think, Mr. Chairman, I better provide that for the record.
to eliminate the gap or significantly reduce it would have a significant negative impact on the long-term exploration program.
What was the Committee's thinking on promoting the development of on-orbit refueling?
the President is going to have to answer the question whether or not the cost of human space exploration is worth it.
It is the additional science and technology that you get under that.
We spent over two decades constructing the ISS, and we now are talking about using it for only 5 years.
Since we have a consensus of opinion that we need to get NASA out of LEO, do you have a preference on the architecture?
Well, under that plan on this same chart, you would be late 2020s with an actual landing on the Moon?
I think the President really has a major decision here.
How do you answer this question that we have spent $8 billion thus far on the present architecture, which includes Ares I, and now we are go...
I think that is true, and NASA has, of course, embraced this idea, provided NASA technical oversight and NASA help, which gives me greater a...