Ralph Hall: “I am very hopeful that we can preserve our position in space, can keep our word with our foreign partners.”

I think we need NASA to give us a cost and schedule estimate that is based on more realistic budgetary assumptions.

Well, it hasn't been. It hadn't been based on science, and we have proven that many times.

We need to be aware of it and abreast of it and never forget it and looking at it every day, but we need to be reasonable about what we have to spend with no help from people that ought to be assisting us.

The Space Launch System, as the Chairman said, and Orion crew vehicle are going to enable NASA's future human deep space exploration and it is vitally important that they be continued.