Jim Bridenstine: “Okay. I want to talk about some of the mitigation efforts.”

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 only rocket that is going to be available to take humans by 2024 is the SLS rocket with the Orion crew capsule.

If we are putting American astronauts on those vehicles, without question, it is not just up to them, it is up to us as well.

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