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

What can the commercial efforts do to generate more excitement among young people until we can actually get American bodies in American rockets flying back?

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.

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

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.

What is needed is consistent and sustained strong, political, and financial commitments from the White House and the Congress.

I called for a long-term strategy to break this energy dependence from Russia.

It's extraordinarily critical that we keep the ISS going as long as it's technically feasible because it has political implications and it has commercial implications, as well, for us.

America can and should be the clear world leader of international space exploration both in LEO and beyond.

The United States should never have to buy tickets to space.

I applaud Mr. Gerstenmaier and the Space Station Program Office, led by Mike Suffredini, for allowing a private company to attempt this new role.