Don Bacon: “I want to thank each of you for your leadership. And I think you each have a tough job.”

I think it would have been better to acknowledge, hey, long deployments are hard.

There's a good versus evil here, and America should be, you know, unabashedly for the right side here, the democracy, the country that wants free markets.

I am grateful to our friends at Space for Humanity for bringing this idea to us, and to Sen. Kelly and our co-leads for working together to recognize these extraordinary astronauts.

I think he needed to set appropriate and honest expectations here.