Everything that we are doing is being approached in this commercial public/private partnership.

I commend you for a multi-year proposal.

We are sucking air when it comes to the needs of infrastructure.

Is there a market out there to cut that almost in half? And I suspect there is.

It is a real problem, and we are going to have some catastrophic consequences if we cannot get nations that are launching things into space to provide enough fuel to have a controlled reentry.

this design is giving, along with the improvement in the engines, a 25-percent greater efficiency.

It will fly supersonic but its design is such a radical design, that instead of pushing the bow wave going through the atmosphere, as you go from subsonic to supersonic, which causes that audible sound that goes 'boom, boom,' it will…

You and I in this committee have a different approach to what is happening to the earth's climate.

It is the research and development that allows this country to move forward.

This time, even on the first crew, the ones that are coming here to Capitol Hill today, our first international astronaut is Jeremy Hansen.

Our seed corn is research and development. We do not want to ever give that up, and that is the mission of NASA.