One of the President's major goals that he stated in the speech down at the Kennedy Space Center is that in order to be able to have the NASA of the future, you have got to modernize the facilities that in fact are used to launch the space vehicles.
Emphasizes the need for modernizing NASA's launch facilities for future success.
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We cannot operate our science agencies on the cheap, and we should not operate them without clear, multi-year direction.
We cannot identify every object. However, NEO Surveyor will be able to identify 90 percent of all the potential asteroids that are greater than 140 meters wide within the 10 years of the launch.
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.
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