Manned spaceflight

Babin Wants NASA To Make Manned Spaceflight Its Top Priority.

The Bay Area (TX) Citizen (4/6, Nix, 576) reports that at last week's Pasadena Kiwanis Club 32nd Annual Mayor's Prayer Breakfast, Rep. Brian Babin said, "My focus as member of the House Science Committee is to return human space flight as NASA's top priority. NASA's attention has been diverted toward a host of other competing priorities over the last several years. I think it is long past due that we return NASA's focus to what their mission was originally and that was human space flight and exploration." Babin added, "We have an obligation and a duty to make sure American astronauts are launched from American rockets from American soil and to do this as soon as possible. ... We must provide NASA with the resources to return to flight and we must never put America in this position ever again." Babin went on to say that NASA has also "given us a healthy pride in America... the motivation to explore the sciences, study harder in school for our kids and to think about doing what is considered impossible."

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