Mike Honda: “But if they insist on hanging onto their policy and they will not honor detainers, and they will not share information…”

Our national labs are really an amazing resource to this country, both in the facilities that they house and in the quality of the scientific talent that they attract.

if we want to anticipate astronauts coming back and not watching them burn up on reentry, then we have to take care of that regardless of what kind of funding mechanism we have.

By investing in a broad range of ideas you never know which ones are going to come up and pan out.

Seed funding is essential. I talked to--in each of the venues that I visited, the leadership in those communities told me we would never have come together organically.