Space is something that contributes to that.

It's only taken us 15 years to get here. We'd better now utilize what it has taken 15 years to build.

Did anything come of the growth of crystals in space. You're trying to grow a crystal that is more pure in zero G so that we could determine its molecular structure easier?

If space can give us new answers and uncover new discovery and targets, we're obligated to go there for the citizens that live here on Earth.

By the way, that's to the credit of the President; he mandated an extra flight of the Space Shuttle to accommodate the AMS.

As I ask a series of questions of you all, I want you to be thinking about, at some point, I will want each of you to talk about examples of the tangible benefits from the space program, specifically the human space program, and the…

There is no finer example of long-lived high technology challenging international cooperation than the International Space Station.

A game-changer is something that really only we or a small number of countries are uniquely able to do.

That has been--endured a number of different shocks to the system.

We refer to it in the scientific community as 'scientific genocide' on the part of NASA.

It better not be too far down the list.

Thank you, Dr. Becker.