So you get a lot more economies.

What do you recommend about that?

And you are going to put up, along with NOAA and the Air Force, Discover in late 2014 for giving us early warning on sun explosions, are you not?

And if that one had exploded over New York at 20,000 feet--what would that have done to Manhattan?

How do you build the risk to these satellites into your business model?

NASA and the U.S. space program have been in the news a lot over the past year for some impressive feats of technology and engineering.

Does the fact, as we prepare to go to Mars and the stated goal of rendezvousing and landing and returning with a human crew from an asteroid, does that in any way help us perfect our ability to avoid this kind of catastrophe?

Had that occurred 20,000 feet over New York City, other than blowing out windows, what would have happened?

If you have less than a few years' notice, right now we have no options.

Hearing held on March 20, 2013

I want to comment on the comments of the Senator from Rhode Island. First of all, I know it is so heartfelt and so genuine, and I want to thank him for that. And I want to thank him for approaching it from a faith-based standpoint about…

Senator Nelson, you know from, you know, having flown in space, that when you are many orbits ahead of time, very tiny changes in your speed make big differences in the timing of where you are many orbits later.