Bill Nelson: “Secretary Gates, please describe the risks to the Nation should implementation of the Navy's decision be delayed.”

In the parlance of the South, this dog doesn't hunt.

NASA has proven we are serious as a defender of the planet.

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.

Look what happened when we spent the money on the Apollo program. Two generations of technology development came out of it.