What role would NASA's commercial crew and cargo program play in the infrastructure NSS envisions?

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Our position is that commercial holds the potential of really being a game changer. It's obviously going to be an area that's going to get a lot of attention this year just as it did last year, where the money that's proposed by the president was eventually cut in half through the negotiation between the Senate and the House. We're probably set up for a similar debate this year. One thing I've said is that the intent for the last several years has always been that commercial would take that burden of low Earth orbit away from NASA and allow NASA to then push out to the next frontier. If we have NASA remaining in low Earth orbit with the limited resources that we have, we're just not going to have the resources to push on beyond.