As you give us this report, Mr. Augustine, I think it is going to become increasingly apparent that the moment of truth for the future of NASA's human spaceflight is here.
Bill Nelson
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Bill Nelson is an American politician and attorney who served as a United States Senator from Florida from 2001 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented Florida's 9th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2001. Nelson also held the position of Florida's Insurance Commissioner from 1995 to 1999, where he focused on consumer protection and insurance reform.
There is only one person that can lead America's human spaceflight program, and that is the President.
The work that your panel has done is in preparation for the President making a decision.
I have been amazed as I have watched this entire space team knowing that the Space Shuttle is likely to come to an end.
What was the Committee's thinking on promoting the development of on-orbit refueling?
Well, under that plan on this same chart, you would be late 2020s with an actual landing on the Moon?
Since we have a consensus of opinion that we need to get NASA out of LEO, do you have a preference on the architecture?
We spent over two decades constructing the ISS, and we now are talking about using it for only 5 years.
It is our view that that is very important to add that to the Fiscal Year 2011 budget.





