mr. pulham. if you would come in a second, dr. chyba, about your perspective from an academic experience which you believe is the best way to attract students and interest them in the field of study that are needed for maintaining strong and effective space exploration program. mr. pulham and then dr. chyba. >> thank you, senator. i think that in terms of the importance of having a new heavy-lift vehicle, you really only need to look as far as the james webb telescope program to understand where we are. the james webb telescope, when it is highly put into orbit, will be put into orbit on a european vehicle, the oriana five, because that vehicle is capable of taking the web telescope and putting it in an insertion to get to lagrange point where it is going to be stationed. having that kind of capability, that the mass of a large vehicle really enables you to do things we can't do now. unit, the space shuttle can carry a huge module, 40,000 pounds or so, but, you know, if you capability of putting 200,000 pounds or taking that 80,00

mr. pulham, you mentioned a number of measures, one of those was to inspire the world. would you elaborate on that in a second? but i would also like you to comment in regard to those things, how we're doing as a nation right now in regard to those things that we all agree are important. >> there are three key words in our mission statement. in speyer, enable, and propel. the inspiration part is a lot easier to do when you have a visible program as opposed to when you do not know what is coming next. if you have that program, that enables a lot of things to happen. it enables technologies to of all. and enables people to create programs to engage teachers and students. it enables all americans to see what is going on and take pride in it. as my colleagues have noted, americans think we are putting a lot more into this than we have. you want to propel our nation in terms of its global leadership. you want to propel our scientific base, our engineering base. you want to propel our young people into programs that are difficult programs and to get them there without requiri

mr. pulham. >> thank you, senator. members of the committee, staff, i like to thank you for your service to our nation and thank you for the opportunity to offer testimony today on the impact and importance of u.s. space programs. is toundation's mission inspire, enable, and propel humanity. implicit in this mission is our understanding based the exploration, development, and use of space really does inspire our nation and our world, really does enable us to dare greatly and achieve our goals and propel us confidently into the future. first, let me address the global space economy. this is from the space report 2011, a copy that i have here and i think most of the staff already has copies of this. it is our most recent annual report on the industry. over the past six years, global space economy has grown by 48%, $164 billion in 2004 to $276 billion in 2010. the average annual growth rate of the industry increased from about 5% to nearly 8% last year. that is one heck of a strong industry and a good investment. the spac

mr. pulham? >> thank you. senator nelson, committee staff, thank you for your service to our nation and a cue for the opportunity to offer testimony on the impact and importance of u.s. space programs. space foundation's mission is to advance space endeavors to inspire, enable and propel humanity. implicit is our understanding the exploration, development and use of space really does inspire our nation and the world, does enable us to achieve our goals and propel us confidently into the future. let me address the global space economy. the data am citing today is from the space report 2011. most of staff already have copies of this. is our most recent annual report on the industry. over the past six years the global space economy has grown by 48% from $164 billion in 2004 to $276 billion in 2010. this increased from 5% to 6%. that is a strong industry and the investment. products and services and space-based infrastructure. the space economy today is predominantly commercial. commercial satellite infrastructure