I think the Executive certainly has the authority to recognize international law obligations and to make discretionary decisions consistent with those obligations.

I believe time and energy is better spent in continuing to interpret the Outer Space Treaty in favor of international collaboration without constraining the rights and benefits of the freedom of U.S. commercial enterprise in space.

Thank you, Senator Markey.

U.S. space businesses have property rights in extracted resources.

we're going to work together to make sure the agency gets what it needs so that we can keep building this momentum.

The Outer Space Treaty was a Faustian compromise with the USSR.

It is the intention of this committee to go forward with legislation, seeking to create a system that incentivizes the investment and maximizes the potential for exploration in space.

The vision that Chairman Cruz has set for these hearings is one of the government opening the space frontier to commerce and settlement by private citizens.

It's time for Congress finally to address the relationship between government and private sector under Article VI of the Outer Space Treaty.

Amen and Hallelujah.

the budget that was just submitted by the President just today--it would cut a half a billion dollars from NASA.

Letter dated May 22, 2017 to Hon. Ted Cruz and Hon. Edward Markey from Arthur M. Dula, Trustee, and J. Buckner Hightower, Trustee, Heinlein Prize Trust.