What we are going to do is a multi-year test, taking it to different locations all over the United States, and see if the muffled roar is acceptable to the people on the ground.

One of the reasons you and I were able to accomplish so much on this committee is both of us worked very hard to keep politics out of NASA and to focus on the core mission of exploration.

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

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

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.

I commend you for a multi-year proposal.

There has got to be not only our effort, and it looks like we have to lead the international effort, to be serious about designing everything that we are launching, that it has a minimal amount, preferably none, amount of junk that is…

We do everything that we can to partner with not only commercial industry but also universities and other academic institutions.

Most recently, Russia as well about a year ago did an ASAT test, unbelievably putting junk into the very altitude where the International Space Station is.

Is there a market out there to cut that almost in half? And I suspect there is.

We are on the same page, and NASA owns and operates that local public water system, so we have every reason to continue this investigation.

It is a real problem, and we are going to have some catastrophic consequences if we cannot get nations that are launching things into space to provide enough fuel to have a controlled reentry.