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.

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

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

Once you start putting Americans on American rockets, the interest in this country is going to accelerate.

Good morning. Thank you all for coming. We have held, in this committee, a number of hearings on space exploration.

Take, for example, in the early part of the spill, BP said that they were losing some minimal amount of oil 5,000 feet below the surface.

In the lessons learned from the Gulf oil spill, as applied to the Houston ship channel you just named--

Lord forbid that we should have another one of these. But if you're the Admiral in charge, which I assume you would be, if it's on your watch I think one of the major lessons learned from the BP oil spill that we didn't have a military…