Not in this way, not anywhere near this level of commitment with these really very impressive goals.

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.

A couple of weeks ago I was at a FIRST Robotics event, and there were thousands of kids there.

What we do is we prove capability, we prove technology, we retire risk, and our goal is always to commercialize.

I don't--I'm not banking on that.

Absolutely I do. As a matter of fact, carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. We've put more of it into the atmosphere than ever before, and it is in fact causing climate--the climate to change.

Just to be clear, Congressman, this budget request is higher than five of the budgets under President Obama for Earth science specifically.

In order to achieve 2024, we need to take some of those elements and move them forward to achieve that objective.

NASA is very ambitious as an agency.

There is a risk that, depending on the power and the position of the cell towers in the 5G network, it could bleed over into our spectrum.

In order to get to the moon surface, we have to have new spacesuits.

We have now gotten other direction from the President to go in 2024, and we are moving rapidly.

we have to be really good buyers.

We did a 2-week study on commercial alternatives to the SLS, and what we found is that none of those commercial alternatives are going to help us save on cost or improve the schedule.

I sent a letter to the Indian Space Research Organization indicating that their activities were not compatible with human spaceflight.

This is a real issue for NASA, and we're dealing with it every day, especially in our--a lot of our centers are in expensive areas.

This time we go, the President has said he wants to go sustainably.

We need to be much better at making determinations as to the cost of what we're going to build and the schedule of what we're going to build.

Mars is in fact the horizon goal. The moon is the tool that we need to get to Mars.

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

The vice president was very clear, and he was talking on behalf of the President. This goes right back to space policy directive-1, that was signed over a year ago by the President to go to the Moon sustainably with commercial partners…

This time when we go to the moon, we are going to stay.

The reason the Moon matters here, is because it is a proving ground.

Water ice represents life support. It is air to breathe. It is water to drink.

I want you to know that NASA is committed and I am committed to making sure that we are continuing to study the Earth and following the decadal surveys.