On the recordJune 11, 2008
I do wholeheartedly support the underlying bill. I think a strong and a vital space program is absolutely crucial to ensuring America's place at the forefront of technological advancement. Most people today take for granted so many of the incredible contributions that our space program had made toward improving the quality of our every day lives. Many of them have been articulated today, but we certainly recognize GPS, global positioning systems, and weather forecasting and advanced medicine, cell phones or BlackBerries, satellite TV and even microwave ovens. They all exist today in large measure due to America's space program. From Mercury, to Gemini, to Apollo, to the Skylab, to the space shuttle, to the International Space Station, NASA has led the way in sending Americans from the earth to the moon and our technology to heights unimagined, I think, by previous generations.
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