Jim Bridenstine: “But the key in order to get that of course is bipartisan consensus, and I understand that and I'm working toward that.”

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.

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

I think at this point we are in good shape.

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