Jim Bridenstine: “This bill will engender a growth in commercial space activity that we have not yet seen in the United States of America.”

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

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

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.