Bill Nelson: “The reason we want to use the Moon in preparation to go to Mars, is that the Moon is 3 days away, and Mars is months and…”

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.

Not only work with you, we want it to work, because the Habitable Worlds, which is one that we go in the 2040s, we have got to start it now.

I would say that there is a significant difference of opinion about that.

Our decision is that it is more profitable for us to go to the South Pole of the Moon, because we think that is where the water is.