The emphasis is on achieving goals rather than elegance.

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.

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.

His goal is to find the best possible technical managers so the shuttle and the space station, especially the shuttle, are operated in the safest possible manner for the rest of their service lives.

I'm not sure this is a hobby for him. I think this is his next big idea.

It's not clear yet whether the 2007 budget will allow a CEV by 2012. There is a complex interplay between the fiscal 2007 budget in particular, the date for initial CEV availability and the potential for accelerating return to the Moon.

The bill is an affirmation of support. But it's also a challenge to the administration to pony up for the transformational space program it outlined two years ago.

It's been pretty well coordinated among the centers. It appears to provide for a smooth transition.

It's like an upside-down bungee jump. There'll be a few moments to view the Earth and then you come right back down.

It's a schedule that is as much political as it is technical. It reflects the partners' concern about the shuttle because they've moved the launch of the partners' modules up to the earliest time.