05/19/2009
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"It will launch uncrewed. It will go way out beyond the Moon, come back, the capsule will land in the ocean."
"I wish, Madam Chair, that you all might consider doing a CoDel at the end of the year to come down for the launch of the most powerful rocket in the world."
"Space is hard, and when you develop very sophisticated things often you get delays."
"What it is going to show us is: What did it look like? What was the composition at the very formation of the first galaxies?"