07/13/2009
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"The Department of Defense is complying with congressional direction to transition national security launch activity from vehicles that use Russian-made rocket engines to those which use a domestically..."
"What assurance can you give this subcommittee that there will be no more cost increases or delays? Can you do that?"
"The 2017 omnibus appropriations bill provided no less than $75 million for habitation research activities to support human exploration beyond low Earth orbit."
"I believe in the aerospace business, uncertainty equals more cost, at least we have found this on this subcommittee."