Anybody who grew up with the space program is a fan of science fiction.

If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

There is no debate in the scientific community...We need [Congress] to change things, not to deny what's happening.

The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.

I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more accurate, more reasonable assessment of the natural laws we see around us than what I and everybody in here can observe. That, to me, is unsettling.

Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.