Science literacy is going to be our future, and somehow we need to translate that into overcoming these obstacles.

We are singing from the same hymn book.

Well, of course, you are not only preaching to the choir, you are preaching to the preachers.

And that is why is NASA so far behind the rest of the Government in securing the data on its portable devices?

So what we need to do is work with you at coming up with a number for Commercial and not at the same time sacrifice anything on the big rocket and Orion.

Now something just doesn't seem right there. Why the delay of 4 years?

And I will tell you we both have a healthy degree of skepticism about OMB because OMB has thought that it has been running the space program for over the last decade.

Thank you, Senator Bill Nelson for introducing S. 260 and the 50 Senators who have co-sponsored this important repeal legislation.

Well, remember also in the context of where we come today, the House of Representatives had also basically eliminated the James Webb Space Telescope.

If we create a suite of launch vehicles, with variable launch capability, then needs at any one moment will determine the destination.

I believe that a nation such as ours, that once led pioneered space exploration, and reaped the economic and cultural rewards of technological advancement, cannot and should not voluntarily cede that role to other nations.

I think the long and short of it, of what we are saying up here, is that we want to see that Orion is getting sufficiently funded so that it is ready by the time the big rocket is ready, and not vice versa.