And then, you would have to have the government oversight, because it's going to interface with a government facility, the Space Station.
I think that most of us believe it would be more efficient than the government, and, therefore, a good deal.
Excuse me for interrupting, but wasn't there one program that you told us, for example, in the development of the heat shield, that you coul...
It's just amazing, Mark, how you can just put it on a dime, and you don't have an engine.
I am further concerned that being forced to make those choices can have the effect of undermining the traditional constituency for NASA.
Thank you, also, in an uncertain budget year, where we haven't had budgets submitted by the White House that have matched with the authoriza...
Thanks to Senator Hutchison and to Senator Barbara Mikulski, they had added another billion dollars, over and above the White House request.
It's been a long time since I chaired one of these Space Subcommittee hearings.
It seems that that language that sets up the process you just described is a little vague.
So, it's 2009.
if the U.S. does not sustain an active space exploration program, other nations will--and are preparing to--step into that vacuum.
You all do us proud.
Do you think that NASA will pass its audits this year?
And according to your answer on AMS, the same would be true of the Deep Space Climate Observatory?
Well, then, that's newfound money, isn't it? That would go into the Shuttle account.
I can assure you that we are absolutely not, and will not, restrict the ability of anybody working at NASA to express their technical opinio...
What are the strategic implications of this 4-year-plus gap in our Nation's ability to send humans into space?
I believe those decisions have forced Dr. Griffin to make the kinds of painful choices we are hearing about from the scientific community.
