Duncan Hunter: “If a tsunami hit someplace, somebody may want to understand what the problem looks like.”

How can you possibly stay on track with that kind of a cut?

President Trump's Space Policy Directive-2 directs the executive branch to 'encourage American leadership in space' and 'promote economic growth.'

The 2013 National Space Transportation Policy calls for the use of U.S. rockets for U.S. government payloads, with some minor exceptions that perhaps should be revisited anyway.

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