02/24/2015
https://www.congress.gov...
"I feel a special responsibility because of my unique position as the only American who was off the planet on September 11, 2001, to spread the word that our leadership in space is vital to our way of ..."
"Thus, the predicted cost to develop a Falcon 9, if done by NASA, would have been between $1.7 billion and $4.0 billion."
"And the authorization--just to build on your comments, the authorization bill requires NASA to look for these types of efficiencies..."
"We are not going to Mars or likely to an asteroid at this point with the technologies that we have."