I look forward to a productive hearing.

Space is a very unforgiving kind of environment.

The President's Fiscal Year 2011 budget request is good for NASA because it sets the agency on a sustainable path that is tightly linked to our Nation's interests.

I asked that we receive a strong a vision statement, delivered by the President, defining Mars as the ultimate goal--we received one.

This Congress has to make a bipartisan decision whether to realign the NASA 2011 Budget to maintain the United States a leader in the exploration of space as outlined by the Constellation Program or forgo the prestige and respect we now…

I do believe that there is value in returning to the Moon.

we, as Americans, are by nature explorers. We have always had a frontier.

the gap initiated by the retirement of the Space Shuttle... represents the impact of a decision made by the present Administration.

That frontier is no longer westward. That frontier is upward.

Did you have any discussions with the Department of Defense upon the effect of the cancellation of the solid rocket motor program in NASA on DOD?

the mistakes that were made in the rollout which unfairly characterized the President as an opponent of human spaceflight