11/14/2018
https://www.congress.gov...
". . . man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred. The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of..."
"just like when John Kennedy said we'd get to the Moon by the end of the decade, it worked out."
"Any nation that wants to remain No. 1 on Earth must also be No. 1 in space."
". . . our leadership in science and industry, our hopes for peace and security, our obligations to ourselves as well as others, all require us to . . . become the world's leading space-faring nation."