Ed Perlmutter: “I really would like to see us move forward obviously with the Orion project and get humans to Mars.”

I absolutely agree. I think we are up to 600, 700 pages of Ethics provisions... some things that are going to be needed, and there are going to be some things that... need to be cleaned up.

And I want to thank the panel and all your colleagues for your persistence and your perseverance with this project because it had a few ups and downs over the course of its life.

I think you're probably right that we would have independent, productive, you know, happy people.

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