private space ventures are absolutely
essential for us to be successful with
exploration we you know we we took a
gamble we said we believe and the
president said we believe that we should
allow NASA to free itself of
requirements to get things people and
things to low-earth orbit so find a way
to make it happen they said that back in
2004 with the Columbia accident
investigation board and in our the
National Research Council in many
studies so what’s behind that is of
course NASA is a a research agency that
we’d all like to see on the frontier
exactly and hauling cargo back and forth
is not on the non nobody’s runty area
and if that’s a routine thing you give
it to industry that does routine best
and they are doing incredibly well with
cargo right now we have two partners
orbital sciences and and SpaceX have
been carrying cargo back and forth to
the International Space Station for two
years it’s not that NASA has never
partnered with industry before always
always have yeah and I’m from New York
and on Long Island Grumman it is still a
point of pride you walk the streets on a
page and they will the old-timers will
speak with pride and they’ll sit up
straight when they remember the did the
designing and building the lunar
excursion module the reason I tell our
employees and in our family the NASA
family which to me includes the
contractors that anytime anybody ask
them what they do they should stick
their chest out proudly and say I work
you know for or with NASA I work with
the space program because we have always
had this unbreakable partnership with
American industry but is the difference
craft we’ve done this time we are not
controlling we are not referring that’s
we are not operating so the the
ownership the the operation everything
right up until they get to the
International Space Station when they
get in the box then it’s mine and and we
will take over and maneuver it into the
box let it dock but that’s going to be
the mode of transportation of us and
partner astronauts to the International
space
because a nation like the United States
model it’s a brand new business model
and it’s in cargo we have seen it work
you know it I am you’ve always heard me
say this the proof is in the pudding we
have to demonstrate that the model will
work for commercial crew we’re confident
it will and provided Congress continues
to support the program the way that they
did in the 2015 budget and if they
support what the president asked for in
the 2016 budget 2017 Americans gonna be
sticking their chest out saying hey
that’s my spacecraft up there not it’s
not a Russian when it’s mine
essential for us to be successful with
exploration we you know we we took a
gamble we said we believe and the
president said we believe that we should
allow NASA to free itself of
requirements to get things people and
things to low-earth orbit so find a way
to make it happen they said that back in
2004 with the Columbia accident
investigation board and in our the
National Research Council in many
studies so what’s behind that is of
course NASA is a a research agency that
we’d all like to see on the frontier
exactly and hauling cargo back and forth
is not on the non nobody’s runty area
and if that’s a routine thing you give
it to industry that does routine best
and they are doing incredibly well with
cargo right now we have two partners
orbital sciences and and SpaceX have
been carrying cargo back and forth to
the International Space Station for two
years it’s not that NASA has never
partnered with industry before always
always have yeah and I’m from New York
and on Long Island Grumman it is still a
point of pride you walk the streets on a
page and they will the old-timers will
speak with pride and they’ll sit up
straight when they remember the did the
designing and building the lunar
excursion module the reason I tell our
employees and in our family the NASA
family which to me includes the
contractors that anytime anybody ask
them what they do they should stick
their chest out proudly and say I work
you know for or with NASA I work with
the space program because we have always
had this unbreakable partnership with
American industry but is the difference
craft we’ve done this time we are not
controlling we are not referring that’s
we are not operating so the the
ownership the the operation everything
right up until they get to the
International Space Station when they
get in the box then it’s mine and and we
will take over and maneuver it into the
box let it dock but that’s going to be
the mode of transportation of us and
partner astronauts to the International
space
because a nation like the United States
model it’s a brand new business model
and it’s in cargo we have seen it work
you know it I am you’ve always heard me
say this the proof is in the pudding we
have to demonstrate that the model will
work for commercial crew we’re confident
it will and provided Congress continues
to support the program the way that they
did in the 2015 budget and if they
support what the president asked for in
the 2016 budget 2017 Americans gonna be
sticking their chest out saying hey
that’s my spacecraft up there not it’s
not a Russian when it’s mine
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