Bill Nelson: “But the subject of today's hearing, I think, underscores all the more why we need to move to the next generation of air…”

Everything that we are doing is being approached in this commercial public/private partnership.

Understand that this isn't all like we are pouring money down a rathole. Look what it is doing for our country.

We do everything that we can to partner with not only commercial industry but also universities and other academic institutions.

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