Bob Bennett: “At some point, the top line has to go up, or everything else suffers from it.”

We will not only lose the industry, we will lose the skills that go with it.

I think the outcry would be very, very strong. There is a huge conflict of interest here, and such an individual should not be included.

I can understand the impulse for a moratorium. I am not at all sure that a blanket moratorium as broad as this one will produce any higher degree of safety than a more targeted kind of thing.

I think the implications for this are very serious. NASA, I think, is making a mistake.