The President's News Conference
09/16/1985
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Nasa will no longer be in the business of launching private satellites.
Authorization is being requested for Fiscal Years 1987 and 1988 for the ships listed in the attachment to this letter.
The greatest tribute we can pay to those brave pathfinders who gave their lives on the Challenger is to move forward and rededicate ourselve...
I think we can achieve genuine reductions in nuclear weapons in Geneva, which I think will move us toward our ultimate objectives.