"But, again, that is our job, right?"
"I think for both of us, we've talked about this, and for many of us of a generation that grew up in the space race, just the imagination, thinking about, you know, whether it was going to the moon or ..."
"These missions are incredibly important because it allows us to know that we're part of something bigger, and now we've got Voyager One that is traveling through interstellar space."
"We're here to talk about large flagship missions like Mars 2020 and Europa Clipper missions because they play an important role in using complex instruments to help us understand the challenge of expl..."
"the smaller missions form a framework and they set the stage for the kinds of bigger expeditions that we want to do"
"I would like to ask a couple questions. I think, Ms. Iskenderian, you talked a little bit about kind of going cashless."
"I'm a simple person. I'm a doctor, not a rocket scientist, but if I'm thinking about this correctly..."
"One reason we would want to go back to the Moon is that that is a potential secondary launch site."
"At that point, some point in the future as we start to go further out, especially with human-scale missions, we're going to need to have nuclear power developed."
"We shouldn't just throw everything out if there is a single program--a lot of women are going to suffer."
"So can I get your assurances that you will look at these programs as opposed to just zeroing out and eliminating these programs?"
"I think America is a great nation, but a great nation leads with its moral values."