From testimony at Griffin's confirmation hearing:

"With regard to the Crew Exploration Vehicle, Griffin noted that in the
1960s the Gemini program took only three years and the development of
the Apollo capsule only about 6 years from award to fruition. He said
2014 is too far out for flying for the first time a vehicle he compared
to the Apollo capsule.

³'President Bush said no later than 2014. He didn¹t say we couldn¹t be
smart and do it early,' Griffin told members of the Commerce Committee.
'That would be my goal. It is unacceptable to me that it should take
from 2005 to 2014 to do the same thing² the country did during the
1960s.'"

http://space.com/news/griffin_hearing_050412.html


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