Bill Nelson actually said...

It was certainly an admonition of the Gehman Commission that investigated the last Space Shuttle disaster that said that once you have completed the Space Station with the Space Shuttle, you shut it down and you replace it with a safer rocket.

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Referencing the need for safer rockets post-Space Shuttle.

05/15/2013

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