Jim Bridenstine: “SLS and Orion will serve as the backbone of our country's Deep Space exploration architecture.”

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

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

The more launches, the more one of them could have, you know, a problem.

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.