They reconsidered, however, because of the agency's timeline for fully restoring South Ferry, said Thomas Prendergast, the chief of the MTA's transit division as well as the agency's interim executive director.

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"These contracts represent important progress in restoring human spaceflight capabilities to the United States, " said Phil McAlister, director of the Commercial Spaceflight Development Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

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"This a great victory that will help us go forward in restoring the wolves and their ecosystem, " said Lois Schiffer, assistant attorney general for the Environment and National Resources Division.

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