Duncan Hunter: “I think it is absurd you are paying next month for this, even though the whole thing is over.”

This is modern politics and modern media mixed in with law enforcement that has a political agenda. That's a new Department of Justice.

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

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 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.