Bill Nelson: “I hope that we can continue to keep this discussion going so that we can come to some reasonable conclusions of what we…”

It is critical that NASA remain focused on its core mission.

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…

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.

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