Jim Bridenstine: “Without question. In fact, I would argue you cannot get to Mars unless you use the moon as a tool to get there.”

I think, Mr. Ranking Member, that would put us in a position to make landing in 2024 very, very difficult.

I really believe it would be in the interest of success to start off with at least three different human landing systems that we could then down-select to two human landing systems.

I think that is a fair assessment.

I think nothing concerns me more than politics getting into the middle of all of that.