We've got to have data. And we can't keep having these delays like we've had on these reports.

the aviation industry is one of the few industry sectors that brings, still, a trade surplus.

I happen to be someone that thinks that we can develop the commercial crew capability, and that we can do it rather expeditiously.

America's preeminence in space is more than a source of national pride. It is a source of strategic advantage.

How much money would you say that NASA has had to spend, since the authorize bill became law, by virtue of that provision in the appropriations bill requiring the continuation of Constellation?

You've got to get up there, with humans and components. Who knows what the technology--by the time we're ready to go to Mars with humans, we might have new technology that takes us there in 39 days, instead of the 9 or 10 months, which…

Well, that is a very well-stated answer. And I think that that's genuinely the policy that was set out in the authorization law.

Is there any thought that you're going to rebuild Glory?

We're going to have a study?

I believe that the sentiment on the Hill now is that this would be the last temporary continuing resolution that we will pass.

So, with regard to the first part of the instrument, as long as the two up there are going, you can keep that data coming.

Why don't you just go full bore and bust down some doors, since, when you step on toes, it's not going to make any difference.

if not more, with flat line funding, you all are going to have to make these choices.

I hope that things like James Webb, our Mars missions, can do that kind of thing to our 12- and 13-year-olds today, because this country needs scientists and engineers and mathematicians in the future.

The review of the James Webb highlighted deficiencies in management and budgeting practices at NASA, leading to the schedule delay and also the cost overruns.

I don't want to see another year pass, where we don't have the focus that Congress passed and the President signed.

NASA has some extraordinary, unique facilities, but a number of these facilities are not being utilized very heavily.

A flat-line budget is what we looking like, over the next several years, realistically, given this financial environment.