1. United States
2. Calif.
3. Letter

Fund NASA's development of in-house launch capabilities before the agency is left without reliable access to space. SpaceX has told NASA it will stop flying Crew Dragon by 2030, stopped selling commercial Falcon 9 launches after 2028, and recently refused to provide launch cost estimates to companies in NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program. That is not a contractor relationship. That is a dependency NASA can no longer afford. Gwynne Shotwell's suggestion that NASA simply shift to Boeing is not a solution. It is trading one billionaire's rocket for another's, and Boeing's track record with Starliner does not inspire confidence. NASA needs capabilities it controls, not ones that can be withdrawn whenever a private company decides the government is no longer worth its time. The data is clear: SpaceX is walking away from government launch contracts outside of Starshield. Congress must respond by investing in NASA's own infrastructure so the agency is never again one corporate pivot away from losing its only path to orbit.