These rules, I believe, are clearly not meant to reform the program but, some people believe, to shutter it.

Also, you're aware that the community there, near Redstone, Huntsville, has the highest per capita Ph.D. communities in science and engineering.

Well, you've got a lot in it, and it's finished. And I'd hope you would do that soon, because to activate it, it costs hardly anything, compared to what it cost to build.

pleased with the steady progress of U.S. commercial providers in developing domestic cargo and crew transportation services.

More prevalent maybe?

But isn't some of the program, it seems to a lot of people, to be a march away from NASA--in other words, into the private sector and vendors--rather than what NASA has proven over many years to have?

I believe that the core mission of NASA is to build cutting-edge systems that will allow us to expand our knowledge of the universe.

I'm very concerned that NASA seems to be abandoning its plan to abide by the Federal acquisition regulations (FAR) in the commercial crew program and instead continue to use Space Act agreements.

Well, I want to go to another question. People make mistakes and pay for it, I guess.

Two key DOJ facilities will soon be operating on Redstone Arsenal: The FBI's Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center (TEDAC), and the ATF's National Center for Explosives Training Research (NCETR).

When is this administration going to get the message that the Congress, I believe, is not willing to subsidize so-called commercial vendors at the expense of NASA's core mission of engineering and exploration?

This administration, I believe, seems to think that NASA's job is to use taxpayer money as venture capital to support speculative commercial companies.