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It was wonderful it was magnificent it was beautiful.

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This architecture allows us global lunar access, ... Many of the most interesting places on the Moon are situated well off the equator.

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If next week the guys have a eureka moment on the foam and spot why this big chunk came off and they say, 'OK now we understand it, we truly understand,' and tell us why and we buy it, and the next tank doesn't have this problem, then we'll go forward.

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Let me be clear. The primary objective for the next several years is to develop a new vehicle for lower orbit and beyond, following the orderly retirement of the space shuttle.

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The requirement to live off the land will be crucial to our future in space, just as it was to Lewis and Clark.

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What we have ahead of us represents a challenge significantly greater than when we first went to the moon.

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We're going to land one way or another, one place or another, and all we're talking about is where.

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It is entirely appropriate for the administration to announce or espouse whatever political views they have. It is not appropriate for scientists at an executing federal executive agency to be required to adjust, skew, alter, or frame the tone of their scientific work to fit any particular political agenda.

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We focused on redefining the station assembly sequence in fact to concentrate on assembly, and we are largely deferring utilization and we are paring logistics to the bone. We don't like that, but confronted with a choice between having a high confidence to be able to complete the assembly of the station and deferring utilization, or utilizing it heavily as we built it and possibly not finishing, we chose the former course.

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The knowledge we gained was gained only through many, many losses. That is the perspective through which we must look at our losses in spaceflight.

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It will be able to carry larger and heavier cargos into space and allow more people to stay on the moon for longer periods of time.

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It is important for our employees within NASA to understand that they can appeal a decision by their management. There is a path for everyone to appeal a decision that he or she believes is wrong, and there will be no retribution for appealing.

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We are giving ourselves what we hope is plenty of time to evaluate where we are, ... We don't see the tasks remaining before us being as difficult as the path behind us.

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Think of it as Apollo on steroids. But understand, we did not set out to make it look like Apollo.

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The space program has had no better friend in its entire existence than Tom DeLay. He's still with us and we need to keep him there.

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The Chinese have offered an opportunity ... to discuss cooperation.

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The legislation passed by Congress reflects the U.S. government's continuing commitment to nonproliferation objectives but also recognizes the value of international cooperation in space exploration.

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The administration remains committed to the vision for space exploration it has announced. That included a number of components, one of which addressed the fly out of the shuttle and the building of the station. We aren't departing from that.

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Returning to the moon and sustaining a presence there will demonstrate humans can survive on another world.

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It is fantastically interesting to me to have a chance, maybe within my lifetime, for scientists to see up-close what those objects look like and to begin our reconnaissance of that region of space.

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NASA appreciates the efforts of Congress to resolve restrictions placed on our partnership with Russia. Congress' action helps to ensure the continuous presence of U.S. astronauts on the International Space Station.

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This has been a big year for us. We set some goals for ourselves at the beginning of the year, and we accomplished those goals.

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I'm pretty emotional. This is the most satisfying win since I've been here. Today was real fun. We were real excited for the game. Cory Farmer really stepped up for us everybody stepped up. I'm so happy that we get to go to Kansas City and represent UIS.

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We have substantial schedule slack at this point, almost a full year. So we would have to have substantial difficulties that we do not now envision in maintaining our flight rate in order to start any consideration of contingency plans.

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We plan on working out together three or four times a week. Year-round baseball is something we can do here.

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