01/06/2011
https://www.congress.gov...
"if we ever give up that characteristic, then we are going to be a second-rate Nation."
"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..."