Bill Nelson: “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…”

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.

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

That's like eating our seed corn. We're not going to have anything to plant next year in the quest of trying to understand what is part of the statutes for NASA, which is to search for life, and therefore to understand who we are, what we…