05/20/2009
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"We want to pursue a series of increasingly demanding human exploration missions, including a mission to an asteroid by 2025."
"We want to increase NASA's investments in transformative technologies that can expand the reach and reduce the costs of human exploration."
"The President also outlined an ambitious effort to foster the development of groundbreaking technologies; increase the number, scope, and pace of manned and unmanned space missions; make human spacefl..."
"There is a great deal that is riding on this hearing today because we are preparing the way for us then to start the markup in your subcommittee of the authorizing legislation."