Duncan Hunter: “I think we probably have a 5- to 10-year window, and then we need to have something where we check everything, because…”

The U.S. currently has a competitive space launch industry, yet NASA payloads continue to fly on foreign launch vehicles.

But they also cut another $700 million past that, and that was mostly going toward shoreside infrastructure?

I would hope there is crossover. All the lessons learned and the billions of dollars spent in Afghanistan over the last decade, the people that have been doing that there transferring their knowledge and capability to you.

Our entire way of life is dependent on space. And our, not enemies necessarily, but our competitors know that.