Bill Nelson: “Thank you for your consideration of this important request.”

All of us have a responsibility to protect our home planet. After all, it's the only one we have.

It is critical that NASA remain focused on its core mission.

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…

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