Thank you, also, in an uncertain budget year, where we haven't had budgets submitted by the White House that have matched with the authorization.
Thanks to Senator Hutchison and to Senator Barbara Mikulski, they had added another billion dollars, over and above the White House request.
It's been a long time since I chaired one of these Space Subcommittee hearings.
It seems that that language that sets up the process you just described is a little vague.
So, it's 2009.
if the U.S. does not sustain an active space exploration program, other nations will--and are preparing to--step into that vacuum.
You all do us proud.
Do you think that NASA will pass its audits this year?
Well, then, that's newfound money, isn't it? That would go into the Shuttle account.
I can assure you that we are absolutely not, and will not, restrict the ability of anybody working at NASA to express their technical opinio...
What are the strategic implications of this 4-year-plus gap in our Nation's ability to send humans into space?