02/01/2010
https://www.congress.gov...
"If space can give us new answers and uncover new discovery and targets, we're obligated to go there for the citizens that live here on Earth."
"It's only taken us 15 years to get here. We'd better now utilize what it has taken 15 years to build."
"Did anything come of the growth of crystals in space. You're trying to grow a crystal that is more pure in zero G so that we could determine its molecular structure easier?"
"By the way, that's to the credit of the President; he mandated an extra flight of the Space Shuttle to accommodate the AMS."