Jim Bridenstine: “If we want to accelerate to get to the Moon as soon as possible, the SLS is a critical piece of that, and so is the…”

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.

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

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

I think there is a concern that I have heard and the concern is schedule pressure.