04/12/2011
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"Do you want to venture any numbers of the jobs in that office?"
"How much money would you say that NASA has had to spend, since the authorize bill became law, by virtue of that provision in the appropriations bill requiring the continuation of Constellation?"
"You've got to get up there, with humans and components. Who knows what the technology--by the time we're ready to go to Mars with humans, we might have new technology that takes us there in 39 days, i..."
"Well, that is a very well-stated answer. And I think that that's genuinely the policy that was set out in the authorization law."