Bill Nelson: “Those who fly aboard the shuttle, the Soyuz, or, I'm sure, the Shenzhou, know that reality.”

I want to see it increase and, thus, all the more reason that you all need to keep us out of budgetary chaos.

This time, even on the first crew, the ones that are coming here to Capitol Hill today, our first international astronaut is Jeremy Hansen.

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

We cannot identify every object. However, NEO Surveyor will be able to identify 90 percent of all the potential asteroids that are greater than 140 meters wide within the 10 years of the launch.