Recently, the Senate Subcommittee on Space and Science held a hearing about human commercial space flights. During the hearing, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Bill Gerstenmaier, formerly at NASA and now vice president of build and flight reliability for SpaceX, had an exchange concerning the regulatory delays that are holding up the second test launch of the Starship. Starship is the massive rocket ship SpaceX is developing that promises to revolutionize spaceflight, take people back to the lunar surface, and fulfill CEO Elon Musk’s dream of establishing a city on Mars.