I've had national security on my side, because that's the largest training and testing area for the United States military in the world.

ocean policies

I can agree or disagree with you, but you said that is what you were going to do, you have continued to do it.

This has to be the priority, job creation.

I hope that we focus on the public diplomacy in Latin America.

It has been suggested that NASA have a DARPA for these advanced projects. Do you think that would allow more entrepreneurial activity?

it will obviate the need to bring up fuel to keep boosting the Space Station, because it will have a continuous pulse.

We refer to it in the scientific community as 'scientific genocide' on the part of NASA.

We do not fund our space program at the level that we should and therefore, it does not contribute to the national agenda as it could.

It better not be too far down the list.

There is no finer example of long-lived high technology challenging international cooperation than the International Space Station.

If we give up that pursuit, we become a second-rate nation.

if we're not traveling beyond lower Earth orbit and we're not really exploring, then I think we're doing a disservice to the recommendations of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board.

I think that is the reason why we would do a disservice to the Columbia results.

That has been--endured a number of different shocks to the system.

The Augustine Commission is saying that we're basically flat if we don't get $3 billion more a year for NASA for the human spaceflight program; $30 billion over 10 years.

If we retreat, if we just say we confine ourselves to low-Earth orbit, we grant the high ground to whoever can get there from other nations.

By the way, that's to the credit of the President; he mandated an extra flight of the Space Shuttle to accommodate the AMS.