I think we should have our own sticker that says 2032.

Those who say we can't are just putting their priorities elsewhere.

I support that mission. And I sincerely hope that that first person is an American.

When the Constellation program was cancelled in 2010, some people said, 'why go back to the moon? We've already been there.'

I am proud that this week Ted Cruz showed us again why he is the candidate best qualified to be commander-in-chief.

Senator Cruz understands that the essence of 'peace through strength' is having the strength to maintain peace, and he's ready to do this hard work.

Cruz was there to do his job and voted to fund our troops.

As a combat veteran, I am convinced Ted Cruz is the leader who will keep us safe, support our troops, and defend our Nation.

Under Cruz, we can be assured that we have the strongest military in the world.

Cruz had substantive objections to some of provisions in the acts, not to their funding levels.

The major risk is regulatory. They need certainty.

Some of the concerns that I have are the delay of the GOES-R satellite program from March of 2016 to October of 2016.

It is--it's a very challenging issue that, you know, we have delays, we have these challenges, and it seems the only answer is more money, more time, more money, more time.

these are the kind of things that absolutely must be definitely determined before--if we're going to have a robust commercial segment that can augment our numerical weather models and save money for the taxpayers, and that's my concern…

I'd like to thank the Chairman, Chairman Loudermilk, for his comments.

I am fully convinced of the potential economic growth and innovation the commercial space industry represents. We already rely on commercial space for so much, and in the coming years, we will see this industry continuing to expand…

This is an agency that has been very effective in doing important work on behalf of my constituents.

I'm very excited about the prospects before our country.

I don't think that necessarily reflects the view of a lot of people that serve on this Committee, on both sides of the aisle.

Thank you for the service you've already given to this great country. You took great risk upon yourself.

We have private companies that are preparing to launch satellites that can do things like GPS radio occultation and hyperspectral sensing.

Commercial industry has been providing massive amounts of capacity for our war fighters all over the world.

So taking advantage of these capabilities that have been advanced by the private sector in many ways is critically important to us as a government.

Thank you for having this hearing, and to our panelists, thank you for being here.

We're getting higher throughput and more capacity than we've ever seen before for our space-based communication architecture.