"Our seed corn is research and development. We do not want to ever give that up, and that is the mission of NASA."
"We cannot operate our science agencies on the cheap, and we should not operate them without clear, multi-year direction."
"The X-59, which is this extraordinarily super designed needle-nosed aircraft is going to fly at the end of this year."
"You and I in this committee have a different approach to what is happening to the earth's climate."
"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."
"This time, even on the first crew, the ones that are coming here to Capitol Hill today, our first international astronaut is Jeremy Hansen."
"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."
"I assure you NASA is and will be if, I am around, not only bipartisan, but nonpartisan."
"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."
"There has got to be not only our effort, and it looks like we have to lead the international effort, to be serious about designing everything that we are launching, that it has a minimal amount, prefe..."