If the President said, 'We're going to go to Mars,' and he laid out a vision, how do you think the American public would respond?

As I have shared privately with various people in the government, including NASA, about trying to take care of the workforce with additional work, such as an emphasis in this budget on research and development, it is my hope that you could…

The agency is going to have to define a process to validate the commercial providers for human requirements.

I do want to acknowledge some good news in the FY 2011 Budget Request, which is that the Obama Administration agrees with the need to continue supporting the Space Station to at least 2020.

This is simply not the way a great nation should conduct its civil space program.

I am also deeply troubled about the Administration's proposal to simply cancel the Constellation programs.

Madam President, the President of the United States has come forth with a budget for the future of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. I can tell you that, among the aerospace community, it has not been well received. The…

I want the record to reflect that several predecessors ago of General O'Reilly, General Kadish testified to this committee--and this is years ago--that the chemical Airborne Laser by the time that he testified was going to be ready within…

Let me ask Dr. Gilmore. In your prepared testimony, you stated, talking about the Airborne Laser: 'The engagement was not an operational test conducted under operationally realistic conditions.'

noted by Senator Nelson.

If you are as successful as you have been, certainly in Iraq and, we hope, in Afghanistan, and now in our relations through the Pakistani Government, that they are successful, too--but if young men are led astray as to what the Koran…