Political Quotes

“Madam President, the NASA bill we passed last fall strongly reaffirmed that aeronautics research is an integral part of the agency and made the point in that bill of increasing a focus on NASA's aeronautics research programs. As a matter of fact, what does NASA stand for? It has become a noun, but it actually stands for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The first A in NASA stands for ``aeronautics.'' It is vital to our research programs in both air and space, the research that is going on. We have existing aeronautics research facilities that are national assets, and they are in places such as the Ames Research Center in California; the Glenn Research Center named after our former colleague, Senator John Glenn, which is in Cleveland; Langley Research Center in Virginia; the Dryden Flight Research Center, and that is at Edwards Air Force Base in California. These NASA centers are unique in their ability to leverage the complementary and ever-increasing synergies between space and aviation systems through these incredibly experienced technical researchers, and they make remarkable advances in aerospace-related disciplines such as materials and structures, flight controls, aerospace systems health management, and high speed aerothermal analysis tools. We take for granted when we get on commercial airliners some of the improvements that have been made. Well, where do we think a lot of that came from? It came from NASA and the research there.…”