safest launch vehicle option and the only one that can meet the goal, post-colombia, of having -- post-columbia, of having a launch vehicle 100 times safer than the space shuttle, which it's designed to replace. what they're doing is, constellation is meeting the goals. once again, the goals are somewhat nebulous. if you don't have a goal, almost anything you appropriate can meet your goal. and i am suggesting that the nasa administrators right now don't have a clear goal. deputy administrator garver gave a speech today in maryland in which she said the president's budget should be abriveed congress because it will enable nasa to align with the priorities of the nation and those priorities, these key national priorities i am referring to, are economic developments ending poverty, hunger and creating jobs, international leadership in geopolitics or world peace, education and environment. now i hate to say anything, but in 1958, when nasa was started, their goal was to, and i will quote, provide for research into problems of flight within and outside earth's atmosphere and ensure the united state