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

That has been--endured a number of different shocks to the system.

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.

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 space can give us new answers and uncover new discovery and targets, we're obligated to go there for the citizens that live here on Earth.

It's only taken us 15 years to get here. We'd better now utilize what it has taken 15 years to build.

Did anything come of the growth of crystals in space. You're trying to grow a crystal that is more pure in zero G so that we could determine its molecular structure easier?

By the way, that's to the credit of the President; he mandated an extra flight of the Space Shuttle to accommodate the AMS.

It better not be too far down the list.

There is no finer example of long-lived high technology challenging international cooperation than the International Space Station.

I think that is the reason why we would do a disservice to the Columbia results.