You could do unmanned in 3 years and then be ready to fly humans to the Space Station in 4 years.

I have serious concerns and grave misgivings about the proposal to rely strictly on commercial providers for U.S. manned space flight.

I think it's that important to the country that we ought to all work together to come up with solutions.

Do you have to have all the $6 billion to develop it?

I believe we can find a more measured and reasoned approach that ensures the best use of investments we have already made.

Space transportation is inherently risky.

I think I'll stop there, probably having shot myself in the foot more times than I want to count.

I think that's a capability that we should continue to build on, not only just to provide cargo, but to provide other support for the Station and other markets that come along.

Mr. Gass, what would happen if the Congress decided, since the Congress controls the purse strings, that we wanted to take the $6 billion projected by the President over the next 5 years, and use that, not for human certification of the…

How can we, the taxpayers, be guaranteed that the seats are going to be purchased at a fair market price?

I have yet to see any convincing evidence that this proposal is viable, or that it will lead to anything other than the ruin of our proud space program.