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.

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...

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

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

We cannot identify every object. However, NEO Surveyor will be able to identify 90 percent of all the potential asteroids that are greater than 140 meters wide within the 10 years of the launch.

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.

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

We are going to have a 3D compendium of everything that is happening to the earth.