Bob Bennett: “Apparently, it has been laying dormant like a cicada on sleeping pills.”

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.