Well, Dr. Katz, I come back to you. Picking up on the idea that you talked about of the ISS as a National Laboratory.

There has been enormous collateral damage in the rest of the human spaceflight program as a result.

It has been suggested that NASA have a DARPA for these advanced projects. Do you think that would allow more entrepreneurial activity?

it will obviate the need to bring up fuel to keep boosting the Space Station, because it will have a continuous pulse.

If we retreat, if we just say we confine ourselves to low-Earth orbit, we grant the high ground to whoever can get there from other nations.

if we're not traveling beyond lower Earth orbit and we're not really exploring, then I think we're doing a disservice to the recommendations of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board.

The Augustine Commission is saying that we're basically flat if we don't get $3 billion more a year for NASA for the human spaceflight program; $30 billion over 10 years.

We do not fund our space program at the level that we should and therefore, it does not contribute to the national agenda as it could.

If we give up that pursuit, we become a second-rate nation.

I'm very concerned--and this is a little bit outside your ambit, but I want to make sure that you know of my concern--that we are going to lapse in our scientists...

I'm a big believer if you cannot measure it, you cannot manage it.

Florida is literally the place where America has reached for the stars, and the program's viability, its continued viability, and the necessity in my mind that NASA and this country continue to explore manned space travel...