I think that you are going to see our recommendations to get to those problems, that NASA take more of the lead.

When can we expect that report?

I agree. I would echo what Senator Vitter said about the out-years numbers, and I have shared my dissatisfaction with Dr. Orzag and Dr. Holdren about that.

It astounds me that the U.S. will lose its ability to put astronauts into space just as we are completing the International Space Station.

Last year then Senator Obama noted that the Bush Administration had underfunded NASA.

In last year's authorization bill, we emphasized the importance of the ISS as a National Laboratory.

Sometimes NASA does not want itself to be helped. We have got to get our act together.

We cannot afford, as a country, to surrender our long-held leadership in space exploration.

For the Space Station to function as a National Laboratory, it has got to have the ability to bring cargo back.

Let me say parenthetically that that question may be, and I hope it will be, answered by Dr. Augustine in his report.

That sounds very promising if you can do data links and bring them back.