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“When we return to the moon, America will not look down on the prime lunar real estate while our rivals occupy it. NASA astronauts will be on the surface, building President Trump's moon base, and we will realize the scientific, economic, and national security …”

“Regardless if we had a rival that is, again, within potentially a year of our schedule on this, it is still, the changes we announced last week is still in the correct direction.”

“NASA has stated we will achieve the national imperative to return, ah, to the moon and establish an enduring presence before the end of President Trump's term.”

“We're going to return to the moon before end of President Trump's term. We're going to build a moon base so we can stay.”

“I didn't blame Boeing. I blamed leadership failures and poor decision-making at NASA to make sure our culture is going the right direction.”

“This rocket built on 60 year old technology that's four and a half billion dollars of launch has an expiration date.”

“We are gonna get back into the habit of launching moon rockets in months, not years.”

“We are standardizing the SLS rocket, increasing launch cadence from years to months. We're inserting a new mission in 20, 27 to buy down risk and increase confidence for lunar landing attempts in 20, 28.”

“About 1.4 billion a year is lost in science and discovery. Because someone, 30 years ago or so, said there's these artificial hiring ceilings on civil servants, so 75% of the workforce became contractors.”

“We are going to embed responsible engineers in every one of the prime contractors, every one of the subcontractors that has components on the critical path. CEOs of these companies are going to brief me every 30 days on how they're going to meet our timelines”

“We've got Artemis through at least, or SLS through at least Artemis five or six. We're gonna make the most of it, and then we will continue to evolve our, ah, our architecture until we are watching, ah, NASA astronauts going to and from the moon measured in mo…”

“I promised him America will get underway in space on nuclear power before the end of his term.”

“And, look, I think, like, we're gonna see astronauts on Mars in our lifetime.”

“We spent two hundred million dollars last year on a canceled program.”

“Is twenty-five billion dollars a year plus the plus-up that came from one big beautiful bill enough to get the job done? Yeah, sure as hell is.”

“I would say that if we went and brought the samples back from Mars which is a program that people have been asking about for a while, was canceled in the last administration because it was super expensive I think the odds are extremely good you'd have direct e…”

“I would almost guarantee you we will get humans to Mars. And back before, like, point-to-point rocket travel is a big thing here on Earth.”

“Within, within years, we'll be able to send humans to Mars. It's bringing them back.”

“I've only spoken to him you know, a couple dozen times, maybe over the years and almost entirely related to my commercial space missions, inspiration, Ford, and Polariston.”

“When we were replicating enemy tactics in 2015 in fighter jets, the gap between our capabilities and the bad guys was wide, and you felt very confident, and every year it started to shrink.”

“I think it's like five or 600% overrun to build the mobile launcher two for the next generation SLS.”

“We've already got paid for enough SLS hardware that if you were to terminate for convenience now, you got enough to launch like two or three of them.”

“75% of your workforce, not partners, not commercial partners in this, are contractors you know, through staffing agencies, so they're all using different software tools, collaboration tools, different HR systems, talking to different prime contracts, subcontra…”

“Now, both SpaceX and Blue had to do uncrewed tests of their vehicle. It was already part of the plan. So they were planning to launch these you know, these spacecraft in in twenty-twenty-seven.”

“You've committed, again, a hundred billion of taxpayer dollars, you have an obligation to see it through.”

“A hundred percent of people feel different in space. You're either on the spectrum of like, well, five days was not great. It was like one of the worst hangovers of my life, or you're throwing up and it's not great for a while.”

“I know that, like, the news talks a lot about, like, the, you know, Democratic donations is the cause. That was not a new development. You just Google, you can, they're all public.”

“In the weeks ahead, America will send the brave Artemis II astronauts potentially farther into space than any humans have ever traveled in generations flying around the moon on a ten-day mission to test the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft befor…”

“With the immense support of OPM Director Scott Cooper, we are launching NASA Force. To rebuild NASA's core competencies.”

“You've got a octocopter, nuclear-powered octocopter that we're launching to Titan in twenty-twenty-eight searching for life.”

“We literally bought over a hundred fighter jets. We were at one point the 12th largest air force in the world.”

“It's got five prime contractors, hundreds of subcontractors supported by a workforce at NASA, where we've probably over 50,000 between civil servants and contractors. 75% are contractors using different tools and systems.”

“How do we get more value out than we put in outside of really launch observation communications? We have no examples yet. We need it.”

“It's never, we're not going to be close to an airplane ride in terms of safety. For a long time.”

“First, I'm two months on the job yet. I haven't run into a single roadblock. Like, everybody wants to go out and achieve, you know, change the world in the air and space.”

“Went to Emory-Riddle, because it's a, I mean, it's an aviation school I think he graduates more Air Force pilots every year than the Air Force Academy.”

“We wound up assembling the world's largest fleet of fighter jets, jets just like this behind me.”

“Back in 2008, I actually got the, ah, the first offer to pilot the first Dragon spacecraft”

“NASA helps fund like engine efficiency programs for, you know, commercial jet engine providers.”

“Orion is 20 years old, by the way, it hasn't flown humans yet.”

“For 35 years, we said, we're going back and we spent over a hundred billion of taxpayer dollars saying we were going to do it.”

“We were 80% weapons school graduates so your Top Gun graduates were our pilots.”

“You go back to the space race across Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo, do you know how, what our average launch cadence was between missions? It was between three and four months.”

“Be part of mission design and select a crew of inspiring individuals and raise a quarter of a billion dollars for St. Jude.”

“They launched the second most orbital rockets every year without reusability.”