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.

Right. And I hope those nations are friendly to America.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.