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The American people want and deserve a space program truly worthy of a nation of pioneers.

Being in space, I'm really looking forward to working with this team of folks that I'm with.

Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.

What got my interested in science fiction was actually the American space program.

I am involved in the architecture of space.

My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we've made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon.

The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.

I believe in the importance of flying in space and the research that we do.

I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.

Although as a boy I had dreamed about going into space, I had completely forgotten about that until one day I received a call from an astronaut, who suggested that I should join the program.