We can't afford not to, if we want this nation to lead in answering some of the most consequential questions of humanity.

Maintaining U.S. leadership requires that we hew to the carefully crafted strategy laid out in the decadal survey, maintain balance, manage costs, embrace innovation, and ensure a talented pipeline.

We really don't want to have debris created in space.

Thank you, Congressman, very much.

I think there is good precedent for that. It can be done.

We recognize and value this--these reports. They inform our work, and even more so, they give us a sense of urgency with which Congress needs to act.

The Joint Economic Committee just released a report on Earth Day last week called The Cost of Inaction on Climate Change.

Even modest warming is going to shrink the economy by hundreds of billions of dollars with higher temperatures raising costs at an increasing rate.

Report submitted by Representative Don Beyer, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives 'The Cost of Inaction on Climate Change.'

Hundreds of my constituents have expressed to me their frustrations with the slow pace of change following their input to government authorities about aircraft noise.

Great nations do great things. I look forward to hearing from our witnesses on what's needed to write an Artemis narrative that is worthy of our great Nation.