and nasa s own advisory committee recommended against it. so i don t know what the administration was up to other than just throwing something out there, but we need to come up with better programs than this. but a key house democrat who s actively pushing for more money for nasa says it is critical. if the united states want to lead, if we want a true innovation agenda for the 21st century, we have to make the kientd of robust investment in space in our launch vehicles and the technology and earth sciences, in the multimission function of nasa as a space exploration agency in order to make that happen. the senate has an $18.1 billion nasa funding bill, but these days on capitol hill with debt being such a huge concern, funding fights are huge at this point. so beam me up, jenna. i was going to say, guess all your future reporting gigs are going to be firmly in