If NASA is not currently capable of landing American astronauts on the Moon in 5 years, we need to change the organization, not the mission.

Oh, it is huge. This, I think, goes to what the chairman was talking about earlier about the tradeoffs.

We look back at Apollo, and we just celebrated 50 years of Apollo, everybody in America loved it.

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

It would be really bad for NASA. It would be really bad for our private sector partners. Please, reauthorize it.

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

I think at this point we are in good shape.

To get to the Moon on schedule, we are going to need to use the SLS rocket.

We are doing the all-woman space walk here in a matter of days. We are very excited about it.

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.

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

I do think this goes back to Representative Cartwright's question regarding kind of new approaches.

Having a Gateway in orbit around the Moon is important for a lot of reasons.

this has to be bipartisan and I think, if we put ourselves in a position where, you know, one side of the aisle is not happy with what we are trying to achieve, we will not be successful

As Representative Aderholt said, if we can't land on the Moon within 5 years, we need to change the organization.

We don't want to do anything asymmetric. If they're trying to go to the moon and it's in both of our interests for them to achieve that objective, then we want to continue to partner with them on that effort.

The folks that work at NASA do it because they absolutely love it, they're committed to what we do, it's unique in the world and everybody knows it and they want to be a part of it.

No, I absolutely do not.

This is about--this is really American leadership at its finest.

I can tell you everybody at Kennedy is extremely excited about getting the first launch of SLS by 2020.

It'll be a partnership rather than a dependency.

As an agency, we're in the lead in a lot of different ways. As a country, we're in the lead in a lot of different ways.

I believe it can be done.

We're going to go to the moon sustainably. This time when we go, we're actually going to stay.

Congress is going to do what it's going to do, but this means a lot to people in my State, and in future years I hope it gets a little bit more respect and thought from this Administration.