Michael D. Griffin: “I want to thank, explicitly, you, Senator Hutchison, Senator Stevens, for bringing your leadership to bear on this issue…”

For the United States and its partners not to be on the Moon when others are on the Moon is unacceptable.

In my judgment, the Artemis program is excessively complex, unrealistically priced, compromises crew safety, poses very high mission risk of completion, and is highly unlikely to be completed in a timely manner even if successful.

Without it, we would be inundated with foreclosures where there is a possibility we are headed towards that and we certainly need to work together.

In my judgment, China--and I don't want to say China. I want to say the Chinese Communist Party, fully understands and frequently says that their goal is to be the world's great power.