This budget, as the Chairman very correctly noted, is a budget without a mission.
resources without vision is a waste of time and money. And that's what I think this budget represents.
The very lifeblood and continued relevance of our Nation's proud and pioneering space program hangs in the balance.
Mars is the focus of our design reference mission.
I absolutely believe that this budget and the vision it represents would end our human spaceflight program as we know it.
I will be a strong, fierce, and active opponent of that, should that be proposed.
Again, I just disagree. I believe the consensus opinion reaction to this budget is that it is a radical departure.
I don't think you were the original or prime architect of this budget at all.
I will fight, with every ounce of energy I have, to defeat this budget or anything like it, to fundamentally change it.
I believe this new budget is a big step backward, because of the, you know, fundamental problems I've tried to underscore.
this budget, canceling every major internal human spaceflight program in sight--most obviously, Constellation--extends their gap, as I said,...