Bill Nelson: “NASA, Commerce, Defense are developing recommendations to leverage the manufacturing here in America.”

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

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

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.

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.