The President's Budget request for NASA is an investment in our Nation's future.

space is the place

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

I want to see it increase and, thus, all the more reason that you all need to keep us out of budgetary chaos.

I would not want to see them get there first and then claim this is our territory in the South Pole, you stay out.

It is an investment in U.S. innovation and competitiveness.

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

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

Yes, sir.

This time, even on the first crew, the ones that are coming here to Capitol Hill today, our first international astronaut is Jeremy Hansen.