You'll walk around this agency, you talk to scientists and engineers, they can tell you exactly where they were when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon July 20th, 1969, i'm the first NASA administrator that was not alive [for the moon landing].

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Twenty years ago the Oklahoma City bombing seared the concept of terrorism on American soil into our national consciousness and proved that we are all vulnerable, even in the heartland. I was in college at Rice University in 1995. All of us remember exactly where we were that day, and we will never forget the 168 people who were killed. Terrorism is evil, yet the incredible response to tragedies like we experienced in Oklahoma 20 years ago serve to highlight the strength, resolve, and resiliency of the American people to the world.

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Rather than passing a thousand pages of tax reform legislation and restarting the tax code manipulation process, we should change the paradigm. It is time to eliminate the IRS and repeal the 16th Amendment.

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Disabled veterans are not a bargaining chip. by Jim Bridenstine

Disabled veterans are not a bargaining chip.

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Fairness has not been enhanced by the tax code, but lobbyists have been made rich, politicians have been re-elected, and the economy has been made to suffer.

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The American space program is coming back. It's coming back with a vengeance, we all love Apollo. But in the Artemis program we go to the moon sustainably, and this time we have a very diverse, highly qualified astronaut corps that includes women.

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We're working on it, as a matter of fact. by Jim Bridenstine

We're working on it, as a matter of fact.

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Cost and schedule matter, so we are working rapidly to put together a team that can assess the cost and schedule of these programs and create a realistic baseline that we can work toward.

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We are working right now in fact to put together a comprehensive plan on how we would conduct a Mars mission using the technologies that we will be proving at the moon.

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It's important that we make sure that this is an all-of-America effort, and we're committed to getting this done with bipartisan support.

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I'm the first NASA administrator that was not alive [for the moon landing], i don't have that memory.

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The proposal was not accepted at this time, so we will move forward under our current organizational structure, given NASA is no longer pursuing the new mission directorate, Mark has opted to pursue other opportunities.

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I will tell you that is not accurate. by Jim Bridenstine

I will tell you that is not accurate.

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We can move up the Mars landing by moving up the moon landing( to 2024), we need to learn how to live and work in another world. The moon is the best place to prove those capabilities and technologies. The sooner we can achieve that objective, the sooner we can move on to Mars.

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Certainly, there are opportunities to utilize commercial capabili... by Jim Bridenstine

Certainly, there are opportunities to utilize commercial capabilities.

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If achievable, this is the preferred option for our first explora... by Jim Bridenstine

If achievable, this is the preferred option for our first exploration mission.

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We’re getting ready to launch what will be the largest rocket ever launched in the history of humanity, it’s going to have a bigger payload capacity and a bigger faring to carry larger objects than we’ve ever been able to put into orbit. This particular rocket, the Space Launch System is going to take us to the moon, and it’s going to take us on to Mars.

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The reason we do it is because we want to improve human lives on Earth, and if you look at the small amount that NASA’s budget is … we’re talking about one-half of one percent of the federal budget, and you look at the return on that investment, nASA has blazed a trail that has improved the human condition on Earth, and we want to continue that type of investment.

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That particular path that put NASA on the exploration [science] and discovery [has] not changed, nASA has hundreds of billions of dollars of assets in orbit, and we have human lives in orbit. Space is so important to the human condition on Earth. We are now at a point if we were to lose space, it would be an existential threat to the United States of America, and what that means is: it has to be defended.

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A public figure cannot control what people say in open meetings.

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The station's design requires humans living aboard to maintain it, operate it, and upgrade it ; thus, International Space Station operations, including commercial resupply and commercial crew, are essential to the mission.

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