Bill Nelson: “Senator Bill Nelson of Florida has been the champion of this goal in your chamber.”

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…

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.