Bill Nelson: “What is extremely important right now is the two of you and your deliberations in this deficit reduction commission.”

Understand that this isn't all like we are pouring money down a rathole. Look what it is doing for our country.

There are, in fact, private companies that are getting into the business now of supersonic transports, but they do not have this characteristic.

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.

Not only work with you, we want it to work, because the Habitable Worlds, which is one that we go in the 2040s, we have got to start it now.