But if we ever want to leave Earth orbit, we're going to have to figure out how people live and work safely and efficiently with ever-increasing productivity in space. We cannot do it on the ground.

I'm a Vermonter. I live in Vermont. We have to take care of our own people. We have to figure out how to do this ourselves. We have these plundering Visigoths that come up to our state and they don't care. They divide and conquer and take the cream.

The current situation has put an incredible stress on the men and women of NASA. Mr. Tito does not realize the effort of thousands of people, United States and Russia, who are working to protect his safety and the safety of everyone else.

We have only 44 launches to go and about a thousand hours of spacewalks and countless problems and countless issues.

If it takes a year, it will take a year. Time is not an issue.

Why should a person, just because he's rich, get to fly on the space station?