Another example, I think, is the Russian engine, RD-180. It creates temperatures and pressures because of some alloys that they are very, very good at.

The global recognition of the power of American-style open markets is perhaps the single most enduring result of the end of the Cold War.

I personally think that the United States was taken advantage of by the Chinese, because of some well-meaning folks in the administration at the time.

As a matter of fact, they had a big rocket and it blew up on the pad.

We shouldn't forget about space station.

From this Senator's standpoint, that's the least we could do. It seems to me, it ought to go to the end of the decade.

Strong bipartisan leadership is needed to sustain the program across administrations otherwise election-cycle changes could cause confusion and waste.

But if the geopolitics suddenly changed, that it was important to the United States to get back to the surface of the Moon before, say, the Chinese would with humans, if that were the case, we'd already have a lot of the technologies…

What Senator Rubio was talking about, I think, under the surface there's a lot of excitement on station.

The biggest impact is that a generation of people were lost who actually knew how to engage in this kind of cooperation.

I really think we absolutely need the funding level that the President has requested.

The chosen HSF program must be robustly supported, both politically and financially.