The review of the James Webb highlighted deficiencies in management and budgeting practices at NASA, leading to the schedule delay and also the cost overruns.

Please provide estimated impacts, at each NASA center, for the $298 million cross agency support reductions in the proposed long term House CR (H.R. 1).

the aviation industry is one of the few industry sectors that brings, still, a trade surplus.

And how are you using the International Space Station to interact with your educational programs?

the speedy restart of domestic production of plutonium-238 is important to maintaining U.S. leadership in planetary science.

I happen to be someone that thinks that we can develop the commercial crew capability, and that we can do it rather expeditiously.

You can imagine what would happen to our space program.

How much money would you say that NASA has had to spend, since the authorize bill became law, by virtue of that provision in the appropriations bill requiring the continuation of Constellation?

You've got to get up there, with humans and components. Who knows what the technology--by the time we're ready to go to Mars with humans, we might have new technology that takes us there in 39 days, instead of the 9 or 10 months, which…

I don't want to see another year pass, where we don't have the focus that Congress passed and the President signed.

Senator, those were excellent questions.

I think that a lot of the students that come to NASA, they just have this fascination with space.