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Today we find ourselves in yet another space race, this time with China.

That's like eating our seed corn. We're not going to have anything to plant next year in the quest of trying to understand what is part of the statutes for NASA, which is to search for life, and therefore to understand who we are, what we…

It is critical that NASA remain focused on its core mission.

Look what happened when we spent the money on the Apollo program. Two generations of technology development came out of it.