Bill Nelson: “In the lessons learned from the Gulf oil spill, as applied to the Houston ship channel you just named--”

When we find those, by the way, not only looking for life, we start to understand their development, and we better understand who we are, why we are here, how we got here, and all of this evolution of the cosmos.

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

It will fly supersonic but its design is such a radical design, that instead of pushing the bow wave going through the atmosphere, as you go from subsonic to supersonic, which causes that audible sound that goes 'boom, boom,' it will…

We are on the same page, and NASA owns and operates that local public water system, so we have every reason to continue this investigation.