Bill Nelson: “This time, even on the first crew, the ones that are coming here to Capitol Hill today, our first international…”

We cannot operate our science agencies on the cheap, and we should not operate them without clear, multi-year direction.

It is the research and development that allows this country to move forward.

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.

This was an Apollo 13 moment minus the people.