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Donald Trump
stated on March 8, 2018 in a cabinet meeting at the White House:

The last private rocket launch "cost $80 million. If the government did it, the same thing would have cost probably 40 or 50 times that amount of money. I mean, literally."

By Jon Greenberg • March 12, 2018
Other Space
stated on July 14, 2015 in in a Change.org petition:

"By declaring that Pluto was no longer a planet, the (International Astronomical Union) put into place a planetary definition that would have even declassified Earth as a planet if it existed as far from the sun as Pluto does."

By Anna Bruzgulis • July 21, 2015
Michael Turner
stated on April 30, 2010 in a letter from the Ohio congressional delegation to NASA:

A space shuttle the National Museum of the United States Air Force near Dayton would be "within a day's drive of 60 percent of the U.S. population."

By Tom Feran • April 14, 2011
Michael Sullivan
stated on July 19, 2010 in a Twitter post:

Says the director of NASA says its main mission is Muslim outreach.

By W. Gardner Selby • August 1, 2010