Under what appears to be going to be the number coming out of the NASA appropriations bill for commercial crew, $525 million, with a down select to two and a half competitors, when do you think that with $525 million -- what is the realistic time that we will first launch crew? Is it 2016?
Bill Nelson inquires about the timeline for the first crew launch with the allocated budget.
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It is a real problem, and we are going to have some catastrophic consequences if we cannot get nations that are launching things into space to provide enough fuel to have a controlled reentry.
Not only work with you, we want it to work, because the Habitable Worlds, which is one that we go in the 2040s, we have got to start it now.
One of the reasons you and I were able to accomplish so much on this committee is both of us worked very hard to keep politics out of NASA and to focus on the core mission of exploration.
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