Jim Bridenstine: “What I'd like to share, I heard Mr. Beyer earlier talk about the C.R. and shutdown and want to know the impact on NASA…”

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

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

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

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.