We spent over two decades constructing the ISS, and we now are talking about using it for only 5 years.

Since we have a consensus of opinion that we need to get NASA out of LEO, do you have a preference on the architecture?

Well, under that plan on this same chart, you would be late 2020s with an actual landing on the Moon?

I think the President really has a major decision here.

How do you answer this question that we have spent $8 billion thus far on the present architecture, which includes Ares I, and now we are going to abandon that, having spent $8 billion?

I think that is true, and NASA has, of course, embraced this idea, provided NASA technical oversight and NASA help, which gives me greater assurance.

Joe Garcia has had an exemplary record.

We need the data. Now, we've got a satellite, sitting on the ground, named Discover.

And NASA's going to have a role in the National Climate Service?

when can we expect to see some of those plans--for example, on sea-level rise--of the economic and the physical impacts?

I speak on his behalf. I don't know if he has actually officially resigned.