Bill Nelson: “I would surely appreciate it, as these ISR assets are going to be available, that you will consider Southern Command as…”

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.

We are on the same page, and NASA owns and operates that local public water system, so we have every reason to continue this investigation.

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.

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