The Stennis Space Center is a very valuable national asset because it is the location that, when we are developing exquisite new engines, we have to go to test them.

It is the research and development that allows this country to move forward.

It will fly supersonic but its design is such a radical design, that instead of pushing the bow wave going through the atmosphere, as you go from subsonic to supersonic, which causes that audible sound that goes 'boom, boom,' it will…

You and I in this committee have a different approach to what is happening to the earth's climate.

I would not want us to be there second because what is to say, if you recall the history of China, the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, and suddenly they are claiming that is their territory.

I would say that there is a significant difference of opinion about that.

We go with commercial partners because the third mission, we are going into lunar orbit.

I assure you NASA is and will be if, I am around, not only bipartisan, but nonpartisan, and it will continue that way.

One of the obvious examples is the ASAT test that was done by China a decade ago put tens of thousands of pieces right in that zone of altitude of where a lot of our spacecraft are.

Yes, ma'am, and let me give you a specific answer to your question.

The X-59, which is this extraordinarily super designed needle-nosed aircraft is going to fly at the end of this year.