Ted Cruz

And I'll tell you, you and I both live in Houston, our hometown or my hometown of Houston and your current town of Houston has an incredible history.

with space one of the very first words ever uttered on the surface of the moon was houston yeah houston the eagle has landed and and our city there's a reason why the sports teams are the astros

And the Rockets, and we now have a WNBA team coming back that's the Comets.

I mean, our city sports, the Astrodome is where the Astro played forever.

Astroworld used to be our theme park.

Sadly, it closed.

We're a city, you look at commercial space.

The four Artemis astronauts trained right here in Houston at Johnson Space Center.

That's where every astronaut trains.

It's where mission control is.

So I went today down to mission control.

I met with the engineers who are controlling everything that is happening up there and got to, you know, sort of like E.T., got the phone home.

uh and talked to we did a call that had about a dozen members of congress and we we talked to uh the astronauts uh jared isaacman who's the administrator of nasa he he spoke first and i gotta say it was really cool he spoke to them and and and he greeted them and thanked them for what they were doing and he said he said i'm speaking to you on behalf of the people of earth

And I got to say, that was really cool to hear.

And I commented right after that.

I said, that is the first time in my life I've stood next to someone or stood with someone who greeted someone on behalf of the people of Earth.

And that was not hyperbole.

You look at they traveled over 250,000 miles.

The Orion capsule itself is really small.

The capsule's 330 cubic feet of volume.