Bill Nelson: “I must say that I was pleasantly surprised that, on fairly short notice, that many leaders showed up.”

Our seed corn is research and development. We do not want to ever give that up, and that is the mission of NASA.

We do everything that we can to partner with not only commercial industry but also universities and other academic institutions.

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…

What we are going to do is a multi-year test, taking it to different locations all over the United States, and see if the muffled roar is acceptable to the people on the ground.