Duncan Hunter: “North Korea's unpredictability requires our presence. We are and have been for some time the guarantor of South Korea's…”

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

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.

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

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