Richard Shelby: “I fail to see how this escape pod will lessen our reliance on other nations for our access to space.”

As Senator Shelby at our Senate testimony hearing last March pointed out to us, we must maintain what we have before we can build new, and I think he hits the mark head-on.

A complex and evolving security environment requires a serious commitment to our national defense.

I am concerned about this--what this communicates to both our allies and our adversaries.

I remain concerned that the Air Force budget request is insufficient considering the needed modernization across the inventory with a rapidly evolving threat.