Bill Nelson: “The $2 and a half billion in the President's budget to cancel the program--instead, use that to continue testing on…”

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.

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

For NASA to continue to innovate, we need to attract the next generation of engineers, inventors, chemists, biologists, astronauts, and so much more.