Bill Nelson: “I know my time is gone, but I would just ask rhetorically of the committee: is his success in Illinois a result of the…”

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…

When we find those, by the way, not only looking for life, we start to understand their development, and we better understand who we are, why we are here, how we got here, and all of this evolution of the cosmos.

It is critical that NASA remain focused on its core mission.

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