Safety has and will continue to be a priority of this Committee, and the NASA Authorization Act of 2015 directs that safety be the highest priority of the commercial crew program.
I remain committed to ensuring that these systems are safe.
I used to be a skeptic of commercial crew and cargo transportation to support NASA requirements. And while I am now supportive of the commer...
I hope that this committee will have the opportunity to discuss all of NASA's programs and plans that comprise its $18 billion budget reques...
It is important because, you know, the public believes that the work that you are undertaking now is entirely your own, and you are entirely...
I think we have come a long way since then, and so I really wanted to be able to salute NASA and NOAA.
I have waited six years on this Committee to hear that, and I want to thank our witnesses and obviously our Chairpersons and Ranking Members...
We still have some challenges obviously and possibilities for gaps in coverage, and so that remains a concern for the Committee.
I think it is going to take some combination of funding ideas.
We are going to have to pay for our infrastructure, or you are going to have to watch for blocks of concrete falling on your vehicles.
Increasing NASA's budget to allow increasing the human spaceflight budget by five percent per year would enable pathways with potentially vi...