Bill Nelson: “Well, this is an exciting time because communications satellites are essential links in our globally connected world.”

That's like eating our seed corn. We're not going to have anything to plant next year in the quest of trying to understand what is part of the statutes for NASA, which is to search for life, and therefore to understand who we are, what we…

Today we find ourselves in yet another space race, this time with China.

All of us have a responsibility to protect our home planet. After all, it's the only one we have.

Look what happened when we spent the money on the Apollo program. Two generations of technology development came out of it.