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Gary Peters: “If you could elaborate for us, please, on how failing to fully fund the $1.2 billion request for commercial crew program…”

On the recordMarch 11, 2015
If you could elaborate for us, please, on how failing to fully fund the $1.2 billion request for commercial crew program affects the Space Station program, and more specifically our continued dependence on the Russians.
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Gary Peters
Democratic · Michigan

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Peters questions funding impacts on U.S. reliance on Russian space transportation.

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