Bill Nelson: “General Carpenter, the B-2 budget request for fiscal year 2010 includes $16.8 million to integrate the Massive Ordnance…”

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.

This time, even on the first crew, the ones that are coming here to Capitol Hill today, our first international astronaut is Jeremy Hansen.

Our decision is that it is more profitable for us to go to the South Pole of the Moon, because we think that is where the water is.

There are, in fact, private companies that are getting into the business now of supersonic transports, but they do not have this characteristic.