Bill Nelson: “Commercial space activities... present an opportunity for the U.S. to create high-value jobs.”

Let me define the problem and give you the background.

One of the reasons you and I were able to accomplish so much on this committee is both of us worked very hard to keep politics out of NASA and to focus on the core mission of exploration.

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.

I want us to get there first.