Bob Bennett: “I guess we should ask you that, or Dr. Murano.”

I would urge you to have conversations with whatever 'elves' within the administration you deal with, over at OMB, because I think that's where the decision was made.

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

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.