Jim Bridenstine: “Number one, you know, back then, if you look at real dollars, the budget of NASA was about $50 billion annually.”

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

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.

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