Don Bacon: “I would love to work with--or us with you and as a team to figure out how do we put our brains together because I think…”

I think he was setting maybe false expectations in the previous months... This is going to be a longer term fight.

We should have oversight. We should bring in secretary of the Navy and/or the commander, the – the service chief of the Navy, and have them explain to us the truth on that.

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.