Don Bacon: “I think we need to have an emergency 24/7 backup capability that can't be taken out by surprise.”

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.

It's not good for our national security, and we are allies. We have to work together to counter Russia, to counter China.

The speaker is a friend, I admire him, but if he won’t let legislation come to the floor that the majority supports, this is an avenue.

I think it's better to acknowledge, hey, this is hard on the families, it's hard on the service members.