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On the recordSeptember 15, 2009
How do you answer this question that we have spent $8 billion thus far on the present architecture, which includes Ares I, and now we are going to abandon that, having spent $8 billion?
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Bill Nelson
Democratic · Florida

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Bill Nelson questions the abandonment of Ares I after significant investment.

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