I want Mr. Whitesides and Mr. Meyerson to be contemplating the need to streamline the regulatory process for the growing commercial launch industry.

This Senator is so excited to see the abandoned launch pads at Cape Canaveral...coming back to life.

The key to success is continuing a balanced space program, one that does not neglect science nor aeronautics.

SpaceX, for example, told me in a few years, they expect to be--just SpaceX--launching 40 launches a year just from the Cape.

We must prioritize safety and security in our space endeavors.

Nor a border adjustment tax.

It's a dual course of the commercial as well as NASA and then getting out of low Earth orbit and going to explore the heavens.

I would say, in closing, Mr. Chairman, that, shortly, we expect the Vice President to be announced as the head of a re-established Space Council in the White House.

So how can we improve the ISS as an incubator to help enterprises such as yours, and do you see that it needs to be extended beyond the existing life, which is 2024?

I was the last crew member to crawl in and strap in, and as they were getting in, I wandered off on that launch tower by myself.

But you do not think that that would deter the North Korean leader, do you, from continuing this development of nuclear weapons, missiles, and then marrying a nuclear weapon to a long-range ICBM?