Jim Bridenstine: “I support JPSS, I support GOES. I come from Oklahoma. We have thunderstorms and tornados...”

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

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.

NASA is doing a lot of things, I think, rightly, that are accelerating processes.

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