Are you saying that with the $330 million cut that it is not going to affect the NASA workforce?

But in fact, the Commercial Crew vehicle approach that you are taking was not cut. It was plussed up from last year's spending levels.

Now I have heard you say that, well, it takes longer to complete the human safety ratings for the vehicles, and we need to have catch-up time.

That gives me comfort.

we can also not stop the beyond low-Earth orbit.

But you are. It is clear. It is in the numbers, and it is irrefutable.

I was, frankly, floored, as you know from our conversation, that it would be so blatant to take it right out of Orion and SLS and put it into Commercial Crew.

we agree that we need to get the Commercial Crew up so that we are not dependent on the Russians.

I know it doesn't seem like it, but this is going to be cheaper for the American taxpayer in the long run.

we are essentially throwing a lot of money at some companies that may never be able to use it to the taxpayer advantage.

Despite the very real fiscal challenges we face, the United States is still capable of supporting a space program that is, as the Augustine Report suggested, 'worthy of a great nation.'