Bill Nelson: “Despite the fact that there was $2.4 billion on the table for Florida, it would have paid for 90 percent of the cost.”

All of us have a responsibility to protect our home planet. After all, it's the only one we have.

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

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.

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…