Ralph Hall: “Ayn Rand said, 'When you see that in order to produce you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing... you…”

Without this new launch system, the technological capability, inspiration and innovation that springs from our human spaceflight programs is going to wither.

Once the International Space Station is retired, we will have no manned presence in space except for missions launched on SLS and Orion.

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 certainly several examples such as--Dimock, Pennsylvania; Parker County, Texas; and Pavillion, Wyoming that the Chairperson alluded to where it appears that the agency is more interested in rushing judgment and placing information…