Priorities, Plans and Progress of the Nation's Space Program

This past year has been a real busy one for NASA. What a monumental achievement it was to complete the construction of the Space Station, and now that crew members don't have to focus on assembly of the ISS, they are getting on with the important research up there. Remember, this was one of the things that John Glenn kept pounding over and over, as a Senator. And we just had the 50th anniversary of his Mercury flight celebration, and John was at it again, saying the same thing—research, research. Utilize that facility up there that we have. Better cancer treatment delivery systems are being developed. We have had breakthroughs in vaccine research, we have a National Laboratory on the Space Station and in this lab they have now developed the processes and the drugs, basically, that are now in their final FDA trials as a vaccine for salmonella and another drug that is in its initial FDA trials that is a vaccination for MRSA, which is the explosive bacteria that ravages so many hospitals that they find it very difficult to find drugs that can control it.