It's an important issue. NASA has a role to play under the President's Space Policy Directive-3.
It's necessary life and property.
The astronaut office at JSC will absolutely be involved, and their role is not going to change.
But the key in order to get that of course is bipartisan consensus, and I understand that and I'm working toward that.
All of those capabilities collude to say that we have an opportunity here, should we choose to accept it to, no kidding, get to the moon in ...
If there's a way to get a factor of 10 reduction in cost, I'm all for it, and I'd love to hear your ideas on it.
You're absolutely right; chemical rockets are expensive.
It's a reusable command and service module that is going to enable our astronauts and our robots and our landers and rovers.
SLS is the best--in fact it's the only option for EM-1.
My commitment, sir, is to follow the law, and we will continue doing that.
We're making determinations right now ultimately how much of a green run we need to do based on the schedule that we are attempting to achie...
I can tell you everybody at Kennedy is extremely excited about getting the first launch of SLS by 2020.
I think our Earth science budget is very good.
My commitment is and will be to do everything possible to make NASA an apolitical, bipartisan organization.
the answer is the 2-week study is complete, and we looked at all of the commercial options, and we took nothing off the table.
The focus now is getting humans to the moon as soon as possible.
We're going to be very safe. We're not going to do anything that brings undue safety.
Oh, I will tell you it will not be successful if we're cutting other programs because we have to have bipartisan support.
