The decisions made over the next few weeks will determine whether the Bush White House is serious about supporting the vision. We've reached a watershed. |
The emphasis is on achieving goals rather than elegance, ... It has several elements to it. One is to say that the people who did Apollo were pretty smart. |
The emphasis is on achieving goals rather than elegance. |
The fact that it comes at a particularly inopportune moment is unfortunate, but either we are serious about long-term commitments like this or not. Nobody is asking for more money. Apollo was done as a warlike mobilization of national resources and there's no reason to do that now. |
There is widespread agreement, even among those otherwise critical of the station science, that it is an essential platform for research related to the impacts on humans of long duration spaceflight, |
This is an important test of the political will of the United States to be a responsible leader in international space affairs. It would be unfortunate if the United States walked away from its past international commitments as it begins its journey of space exploration. |
We think the days of going out on New Year's Eve to a big party such as at a hotel have come and gone. |
We'd all been lulled into believing the emperor had clothes on when indeed he was naked. The problems had been there to be seen. All of us close to the program didn't want to see them. |
With only two crew aboard, there's some limited research taking place. But most of the crew's time is spent basically maintaining the station so a third crew member gives 33 percent more time and most of that time will be spent on research. |
You can't start talking about space until you set an overall policy. Our space relationship gets to a basic question of whether the United States tries to contain an emerging China or engage it. |
You might tap an initial pool of people with lots of money and nothing better to do, |