My guess is, that once he got into NASA, he was told by Deep State operatives that either he gets on the Gorebull Warming propaganda train, or he has to get out.
And I also think it was this or something like it. There are people poised to make a lot of money from this global warming bullsh*t scam. They will put pressure on people to go along with it.
And yes, this is connected to the Civil War. All the corruption in Washington DC is a consequence of the Civil War.
Yeah, he's another one like Ryan, Gowdy, and Flake. Once reliable conservatives, now you can see the terror behind their eyes when they are on camera. Somebody got to them - maybe they only got into Congress in the first place because they were blackmail-able, but their leashes have been jerked.
Will he now refuse to allow NASA to fire off any more rockets ‘for the good of the planet’?