Bill Nelson: “That's pretty exciting, isn't it, Dr. Collicott, that you might send your class to space, to the edge of space, go Mach…”

I want us to get there first.

This was an Apollo 13 moment minus the people.

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.

It will fly supersonic but its design is such a radical design, that instead of pushing the bow wave going through the atmosphere, as you go from subsonic to supersonic, which causes that audible sound that goes 'boom, boom,' it will…