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NASA works for the White House. There are many at NASA that wish they were building a modern replacement for the Shuttle. However, they had marching orders to instead work on other things, some of which should have no place in a research organization.

— Burt Rutan

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✓Similar Perspectives

NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.

— Bill Nye

Congress came to see NASA primarily as a jobs program, not an exploratory agency.

— Gregory Benford

That's what we want to do here at Johnson Space Center. I think what we have always brought to NASA and brought to the country is trying to push the boundaries, trying to go to the next level.

— Ellen Ochoa

NASA needs to focus on the things that are really important and that we do not know how to do. The agency is a pioneering force, and that is where its competitive advantage lies.

— Buzz Aldrin

The U.S. federal government may be going broke, but it's not because of NASA.

— Robert Zubrin

Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.

— Nathan Myhrvold

NASA has made a difference.

— Gregory H. Johnson

In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.

— Chuck Yeager

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.

— Kevin J. Anderson

The 18,000 NASA employees are full of galactic talents and abilities and are ready to accomplish whatever they're directed to do.

— P. J. O'Rourke

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