I think it is important that we recognize that what the commercial providers ultimately provide, a lot of it could have already been tested.

I think, Mr. Ranking Member, that would put us in a position to make landing in 2024 very, very difficult.

Here's what we know: China is not going to slow down. That means that we, as a country, need to come together, figure out what the architecture is, be committed to a process and then move forward as rapidly as possible.

The goal to get to the Moon needs to be bipartisan; it has to be apolitical.

As Representative Aderholt said, if we can't land on the Moon within 5 years, we need to change the organization.

When we use different types of rockets, we have dissimilar redundancy.

It should be noted that the spacesuits are in essence little spaceships. Each one of them is designed specifically not just for the astronaut, but also for the mission. The challenge is, we only have a certain number of spacesuits.

To get to the Moon on schedule, we are going to need to use the SLS rocket.

I am the first NASA Administrator from that day to this day that was not alive when that happened.

Having a Gateway in orbit around the Moon is important for a lot of reasons.

Do we want to lead the world in space or do we want to yield that to somebody else?

There is two types of risk, there is technical risk and then there is political risk.

this has to be bipartisan and I think, if we put ourselves in a position where, you know, one side of the aisle is not happy with what we are trying to achieve, we will not be successful

Oh, it is huge. This, I think, goes to what the chairman was talking about earlier about the tradeoffs.

We look back at Apollo, and we just celebrated 50 years of Apollo, everybody in America loved it.

If NASA is not currently capable of landing American astronauts on the Moon in 5 years, we need to change the organization, not the mission.

The challenge that we have as a Nation is that, the longer programs go, the more political risk that we have.

I think at this point we are in good shape.

The more launches, the more one of them could have, you know, a problem.

We are doing the all-woman space walk here in a matter of days. We are very excited about it.

Well, I think we have pretty good oversight capabilities already.

It depends what Boeing is willing to invest, quite frankly. We don't have currently the appropriations necessary to achieve that.

I do think this goes back to Representative Cartwright's question regarding kind of new approaches.

You can't land on the Moon if you don't have a landing system.