Bill Nelson: “This is beyond tragic, as many of the victims' emotional scars may never heal.”

I would say that there is a significant difference of opinion about that.

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.

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.

this research is absolutely critical for us exploring the heavens.