thank you for what you've done in the agency in stopping this muzzling of scientists.

I want to thank you, personally, for what you've done to try to straighten that out.

We're trying to help you.

May I interject right there? Now, let me get the math.

Well, then, that's newfound money, isn't it? That would go into the Shuttle account.

And according to your answer on AMS, the same would be true of the Deep Space Climate Observatory?

Do you think that NASA will pass its audits this year?

What we'd like you to come up with is a figure that is realistic that we could go out and try to find for you, so you can keep on the schedule of 2014 or earlier for Orion/Ares.

You all do us proud.

if the U.S. does not sustain an active space exploration program, other nations will--and are preparing to--step into that vacuum.

So, it's 2009.