I look forward to working with him and Ranking Member Cruz to make sure that NASA and the United States keep their leadership position.

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.

We cannot operate our science agencies on the cheap, and we should not operate them without clear, multi-year direction.

We go with commercial partners because the third mission, we are going into lunar orbit.

It is a real problem, and we are going to have some catastrophic consequences if we cannot get nations that are launching things into space to provide enough fuel to have a controlled reentry.

Let me define the problem and give you the background.

We are sucking air when it comes to the needs of infrastructure.

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

It will fly supersonic but its design is such a radical design, that instead of pushing the bow wave going through the atmosphere, as you go from subsonic to supersonic, which causes that audible sound that goes 'boom, boom,' it will…

Indeed I do, and another thing that you were looking at is thermoplastic composites as a new material...

Everything that we are doing is being approached in this commercial public/private partnership.