Bill Nelson: “I would rather see a sermon than hear one any day. That might be a lesson for all of us in public office to remember.”

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.

Look what happened when we spent the money on the Apollo program. Two generations of technology development came out of it.

It is a real problem, and we are going to have some catastrophic consequences if we cannot get nations that are launching things into space to provide enough fuel to have a controlled reentry.