07/19/2011
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"In last year's authorization bill, there was guidance to NASA about COTS-D Space Act agreements to develop a U.S. commercial alternative to Soyuz."
"I want to ask you a question specifically about the workforce at the Kennedy Space Center."
"It was Senator Hutchison who, about 5 years ago, in the NASA authorization bill had first designated the Space Station as a National Laboratory."
"But that was not what the legislation said. The legislation said that $150 million was funding for COTS-D."