Don Bacon: “After 30 years in the Air Force and 10 years in Congress, it’s time to spend my future with the love of my life, our…”

We should have done this a year ago. We could have done this in a bipartisan way a year ago, but we have not.

I think we still have the advantage, but we have to be patient.

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