01/14/2009
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"I want to state that with the retirement of the Space Shuttle later this year, and if the Administration's proposal is followed, the United States will no longer be a space-faring nation."
"If the President said, 'We're going to go to Mars,' and he laid out a vision, how do you think the American public would respond?"
"As I have shared privately with various people in the government, including NASA, about trying to take care of the workforce with additional work, such as an emphasis in this budget on research and de..."
"The agency is going to have to define a process to validate the commercial providers for human requirements."