"We are on the same page, and NASA owns and operates that local public water system, so we have every reason to continue this investigation."
"We cannot operate our science agencies on the cheap, and we should not operate them without clear, multi-year direction."
"This time, even on the first crew, the ones that are coming here to Capitol Hill today, our first international astronaut is Jeremy Hansen."
"But this time we are going to do it by working with Boeing of designing a high, thin wing, high on the fuselage."
"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."
"If we show up at the Shackleton Crater, I highly doubt the communist--Chinese Communist Party will care much about how we have advanced an equity action plan."
"Our seed corn is research and development. We do not want to ever give that up, and that is the mission of NASA."
"I would say that there is a significant difference of opinion about that."
"The X-59, which is this extraordinarily super designed needle-nosed aircraft is going to fly at the end of this year."
"Yes, sir."
"One of the reasons you and I were able to accomplish so much on this committee is both of us worked very hard to keep politics out of NASA and to focus on the core mission of exploration."