Did anything come of the growth of crystals in space. You're trying to grow a crystal that is more pure in zero G so that we could determine its molecular structure easier?

It's only taken us 15 years to get here. We'd better now utilize what it has taken 15 years to build.

If space can give us new answers and uncover new discovery and targets, we're obligated to go there for the citizens that live here on Earth.

If the ISS were abandoned in 2016, what potential research do you think would be unrealized?

The ISS is the only laboratory of its kind.

There has been enormous collateral damage in the rest of the human spaceflight program as a result.

As I ask a series of questions of you all, I want you to be thinking about, at some point, I will want each of you to talk about examples of the tangible benefits from the space program, specifically the human space program, and the…

Space is something that contributes to that.

Thank you, Dr. Becker.

A game-changer is something that really only we or a small number of countries are uniquely able to do.

Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you on the benefits and applications of space based research.

Well, Dr. Katz, I come back to you. Picking up on the idea that you talked about of the ISS as a National Laboratory.

Ranking Member Vitter and distinguished members of the Subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to speak to you.

Florida is literally the place where America has reached for the stars, and the program's viability, its continued viability, and the necessity in my mind that NASA and this country continue to explore manned space travel...

I'm a big believer if you cannot measure it, you cannot manage it.

I'm very concerned--and this is a little bit outside your ambit, but I want to make sure that you know of my concern--that we are going to lapse in our scientists...

We need to figure out a way to get more banks to participate.

I want to thank the Chairman for holding this important markup legislation affecting the SBA capital access programs.