06/02/2009
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"So we need to get seven people in that station."
"Senator Nelson and I, and many others, have tried to assure that we don't eat our seed corn, that we continue research, that we continue to reach for the stars, to go beyond where we are now."
"There have been people who have tried to abolish NASA, frankly."
"Establishing our part of the Space Station as an American national laboratory was a great accomplishment."