Steven Palazzo

Well, yes. And I wish we would just take the billions of dollars that we spend on it and put it into deep space exploration.

It seems like throughout the Federal government, not just, you know, NASA, but there is not a lot of accountability.

We are excited. And you referenced the students in here.

Maintaining America's leadership in space is a priority of yours as it is ours.

We will just leave it at that.

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If I don't have commercial crew and cargo, the International Space Station, I can't get to Mars.

I want to get away from dependence on the Russians. We now have American commercial cargo capability demonstrated.

Cuts to NASA education hurt NASA's ability to engage and inspire the next generation of explorers.

Cuts to Heliophysics are weakening our ability to understand and predict solar storms that could threaten astronauts in space.

I believe the taxpayer's investment in NASA is generally well spent, and that I support increasing NASA's budget.

I had hoped that the Administration would have demonstrated leadership by proposing a realistic budget.

Unfortunately, the President's budget proposal does not comply with his own Budget Control Act.

I happen to choose Buzz Aldrin's number one priority as Mars because moon is on the way.

Cuts to the Planetary Science Division will empty the pipeline for outer-planet missions and force scientists and engineers into other fields and to foreign projects.

The concern that I have is that the Administration did not propose offsets to account for the increase.

Discretionary spending such as research and development investments at NASA is the seed corn of future economic growth.

I believe the taxpayers' investment in NASA is generally well spent, and that I support increasing NASA's budget if we're assured American access to space.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) represents a significant investment by the U.S. taxpayer and holds the promise of producing revolutionary science that one day may rewrite textbooks.

Mr. Gerstenmaier, we are currently paying Russia $76 million for a Soyuz seat to the ISS, which has historically increased nine percent per year.

Together, we will fix this, and in only a few more years we will be launching once again Americans, on American rockets, from American soil.

We are working steadily, thoughtfully, and efficiently with NASA to yield the safest and most reliable astronaut transportation system that the world has ever seen.

It is absolutely imperative that we understand the gravity of what it means to carry our astronauts into space.

However, since 2011, the United States has depended entirely on Russia to transport our astronauts to the International Space Station.