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For flight right here in this room. [ applause ] next, we will invest more than $3 billion to conduct research on an advanced heavy lift rocket, a vehicle to efficiently send into orbit the crew capsules, propulsion systems, and large quantities of supplies needed to reach deep space. and developing this new vehicle, we will not only look at revising or modifying older models, we want to look at new designs, new materials, new technologies that will transform not just where we can go but what we can do when we get there. and we will finalize a rocket design no later than 2015 and then begin to...

Next, we will invest more than $3 billion to conduct research on an advanced heavy-lift rocket. a vehicle to effectively send into orbit crews, propulsion systems and supplies. in developing this vehicle renot only look at revising or modifying older models, we want to look at new designers new materials, new technologies that transform not just where we can go but what we can do when we get there. we will finalize a rocket design no later than 2015 and begin to build it. that -- [ applause ] i want everybody to understand, that's at least two years earlier than previously planned.