Ralph Hall: “I believe strongly that, after prayer, energy is the most important word in the dictionary.”

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.

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.

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

Advancing threat detection technologies is one of the many ways research and development contributes to keeping America secure.