mr. bridenstine from oklahoma. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and thank you for your leadership on this very important committee. thank you to our witnesses providing testimony today. it's an honor to be with you, and certainly hear your testimony. gene start in was the last man -- last man to walk on the moon. he took off december 17, 1972. three years before i was born. he was a naval aviator, a naval officer. he was an aeronautical engineer an electrical engineer, a fighter pilot, a test pilot and an astronaut. he and so many others that accomplished that feat never went back to the moon. and i think that it is a tragedy, and certainly something that this committee should be aware of a. it hasn't happened in my lifetime. my parents remember exactly where they were the first time it happened with neil armstrong and buzz aldrin. this committee before i got here, and certainly congress as a whole, commission a report that cost three caused $3.2 million. they spent 18 months. it was a group of individuals led by governor mitch daniels c

mr. bridenstine. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and ms. edwards, i disagree with you. your comments are sort of well recognized on both sides of the out, so thanks for that and we would like to work with you on how we can remedy this. just had a quick question about the international implications of our direction for human spaceflight. of reports that ms. edwards referenced from the national academies indicated that if we were to do this astroid redirector mission, we would be not in the line with the international community, most of which is focused on getting to the moon. namely, the lunar surface and then on to mars. and that this alignment, according to report, again headed by governor mitch daniels, indicated the misalignment could actually result in a spend a whole lot of money on dead-end technologies rather than actually a college and the objective of getting to the moon. mr. gerstenmaier, could you address that? >> i would say the global exploration roadmap is the plan that the international partner community has agreed to come along with nasa as a basic prime

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