02/27/2017
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"Our 50-year legacy of leadership in space is on the line, and we need to have a credible plan to make the next step forward."
"We also asked the President for the safe completion of the current Space Shuttle manifest even if it has to be flown into next year."
"We will be, for the first time in nearly 50 years, for a period of years unable to go into low-Earth orbit."
"We asked that he consider not the cancellation of the Constellation program, but the restructuring of it."