Duncan Hunter: “I am concerned about the troops that are going to be deployed next year to Afghanistan, and are they getting the proper…”

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.

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.

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?