Bill Nelson: “Does the effects of climate change have any effects on national security?”

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.

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

Our seed corn is research and development. We do not want to ever give that up, and that is the mission of NASA.

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.