that contract with nasa for 12 flights to the space station. is this a big payoff for nasa and what about taxpayers? well, i think ultimately by trying to commercialize this industry, it should drive the costs down. and even at $1.6 billion to send 12 cargo flights to the space station, that sounds like a lot but when you compare what it costs to get cargo to the space station with the space shuttle, it s a bargain, significantly less expensive than it was with our old delivery system. what about that nasa wants? does it say that it wants private companies to conduct missions to the space station? and if so, what types of missions does nasa want to focus on instead? well, that s part of the idea, would be to get those private companies to focus on the stuff that we re pretty good at doing now, which is operating the space station, delivering cargo, ultimately crew to the
even president obama who called the meeting seemed bored by the whole thing. i really appreciate this exchange. it would have been helpful if we had this nine month or a year earlier and for more detail and more days and since we hadn t had input for drafting we re credited with 115 amendments well 17 of those inserted native americans and tribal into 17 different places. the ideas that we had when senator kennedy and i were working bills we put detail in and then draft the bills together. big payoff. did you notice nancy pelosi and harry reid every time republicans talk, they look