Alex Roland
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"Alex Roland" is a television journalist and news reporter. , he has received twelve Emmy Awards for Excellence in Journalism. In 2009, he was honored with the RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award/Edward R. Murrow Award. Working with New York's Univision/Univisión news affiliate, WXTV-DT, Roland notably produces the segment "Our People", which highlights the work of Latin Americans living in the United States. He has also produced and presented reports on immigration and political issues, along with entertainment industry news. He is a native of Bogotá, Colombia, residing in New Jersey under political asylum, since 2000.

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The shuttle could never do what the agency tried to make it do, and so they traded off safety. I don't blame the managers; they were presented with an impossible job.

Defense and government contractors couldn't make anything inexpensive if their lives depended on it.

We can't afford it. It's going to cost much more than this 5 percent increment in the NASA budget that they're talking about.

It's probably harmless, ... but it trivializes the space program. It seems as if they've got nothing better to do than send up an old, outdated senator.

In a budget crisis of its own making.

NASA is plodding along doing what it's been doing for decades, ... Astronauts have been flying up there for 17-18 years, and it's hard to see what they've accomplished.

There is no question in my mind that it would be best policy to say forget it.