if not more, with flat line funding, you all are going to have to make these choices.

America's preeminence in space is more than a source of national pride. It is a source of strategic advantage.

I don't want to see another year pass, where we don't have the focus that Congress passed and the President signed.

NASA has some extraordinary, unique facilities, but a number of these facilities are not being utilized very heavily.

A flat-line budget is what we looking like, over the next several years, realistically, given this financial environment.

Well, with the new heavy-lift capability, you're the expert, tell us: What about the new destinations that are enabled by the evolvable new heavy-lift capability?

you've got a pretty robust budget in this NASA authorization law as well as the President's proposal, for aeronautics.

Senator, those were excellent questions.

Well, it's been reported to have been said by the agency Chief Technologist, Bobby Braun, that the development of a heavy-lift capability will not be available for a decade.

I want to start with you, Dr. Whitlow. I want you to tell us if a budget or continuing resolution were to be passed with the $298 million cut that would come off of a cross-agency support account, which is what passed the House of…

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