Bill Nelson: “We cannot reach this goal without the likes of the private and civil investments.”

That's like eating our seed corn. We're not going to have anything to plant next year in the quest of trying to understand what is part of the statutes for NASA, which is to search for life, and therefore to understand who we are, what we…

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

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.