[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 16]
[House]
[Pages 21293-21294]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT IN THE U.S.

  (Mr. OLSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. OLSON. Mr. Speaker, this past Tuesday, the Review of U.S. Human 
Space Flight Plans Committee released the options they have provided 
the Obama administration regarding the

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future of our Nation's human space flight program. Their opening 
sentence says it all: ``The U.S. human space flight program appears to 
be on an unsustainable trajectory.''
  Two prior Congresses and two Presidential administrations have 
endorsed the course NASA is on, but without providing the necessary 
funding. This Congress, this Congress, needs to meet the commitment to 
our Nation's space agency. The work being done benefits science, 
education, and our economy.
  We have stood on this floor and spent money bailing out the past. It 
is time we reinvested in our future. The achievements of the men and 
women of America's space program cannot continue to be received with 
empty promises and constant second guessing. We have been the world's 
leader in human space flight for nearly 50 years. We must always be so.

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