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We ought to be doing as a priority of sorts? >> well, i certainly hope they are. every sense i get is there was great enthusiasm hearing the president speak today and i think it's a question of working these details out in the next several months and i would expect to see an even further commitment once we get the details worked out as to exactly what kind of launch vehicles we are going to be having. in the meantime, of course, we have expendable rockets that are commercial that can take a spacecraft that's been defined for some while and studies by nasa and can run back on the runway. i'm st...

Both from the space station and both from exploration missions. that was not possible with the previous program. we just didn't have enough money to do that. so, i think the reallocation as the president said, is going to result in reaching a heavy lift vehicle sooner than we would with the president -- previous president's plan where we were going to build two different launch vehicles, which would have been competing with the private sector. i think the commercial people are fully capable. they have done this in the past in aviation and i'm certain they will be able to do that with the space...

Priority of sorts? >> well, i certainly hope they are. every sense i get is there was great enthusiasm hearing the president speak today and i think it's a question of working these details out in the next several months and i would expect to see an even further commitment once we get the details worked out as to exactly what kind of launch vehicles we are going to be having. in the meantime, of course, we have expendable rockets that are commercial that can take a spacecraft that's been defined for some while and studies by nasa and can run back on the runway. i'm strongly in favor of that. i...

With us. >> good afternoon. >> listen, what the president is going to propose is a shift in thinking for nasa. and one that some people think is great. we're going to concentrate nasa on deeper space exploration, put more money into it and do other things. others say, it's a bad idea. we're getting out of the business of shuttling astronauts into space and somehow that is going to be bad for nasa. what are your thoughts? >> let's look at it this way. when we look at what goes on with space exploration, with nasa, nasa's on the cutting edge. what we tried to do is to do the things that other fo...

Far? >> reporter: the headlines, you know, a substantial reduction in nuclear warheads, of the two countries in the world that have the most nuclear weapons and they'll reduce by almost half existing stockpiles, of around 3,000 warheads, each down to 1550 on each side and the agreement will also call for a major reduction in launched vehicles, which are as you know everything from bombers, to missiles, to submarines, they'll reduce those by about half down to about 700 deployed launch vehicles, and that is a major achievement, very important, for president obama, because he has this conference...