07/09/2013
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"We are now dependent on the Russians to buy six seats per year from the Russians in order to maintain Space Station at a cost of $76 million per seat."
"The private sector has a lot to contribute and I would hope that we don't have our long-term projection into Mars as a government program doesn't cost us these extra billions of dollars."
"The hardworking men and women of NASA really does deserve better."
"We're draining money off for other projects like flying off to Mars in the long run and costing us almost a billion dollars because we haven't--you know, we're not doing things responsibly."