The ability of any current COTS design to close the gap or even provide an equivalent degree of safety is speculative.

Let me remind you just why they cannot credibly pretend that an irreversible decision was made that they are simply implementing.

That is why I am so concerned about the Obama administration's response to the Augustine panel report.

Space exploration has always been a bipartisan effort, and it should continue to be so.

we will have lost the many years required to re-create the equivalent of what will be discarded.

He has chosen not to continue those operations, and so that decision--and the consequences that may follow from it, are, and will always be, his responsibility.

I strongly support Senator Hutchison's efforts to ensure that a review of space station requirements is conducted.

If Project Constellation is canceled, our Nation will not in the near future be able to travel beyond low-Earth orbit.

I believe that has been reflected in the findings of the 'Gathering Storm' report, prepared several years ago under the leadership of Norm Augustine.

to abandon Ares I as a baseline vehicle for an alternative, without demonstrated capability nor proven superiority, or even equivalence, is unwise and probably not cost-effective.

The Bush administration failed to request the amounts it had originally projected to support the Vision for Exploration.