"It will prepare America to compete--and succeed--in the 21st century."
"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 can identify 90 percent of the asteroids that are 140 meters wide, then we are well on our way."
"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."
"President Xi and the CCP are hell-bent on dominating us on every front."
"I assure you NASA is and will be if, I am around, not only bipartisan, but nonpartisan."
"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."
"The Stennis Space Center is a very valuable national asset."
"I would say that there is a significant difference of opinion about that."
"space is the place"
"It is an investment in U.S. innovation and competitiveness."