Bill Nelson: “This Committee has considered and passed legislation to address it.”

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.

Our seed corn is research and development. We do not want to ever give that up, and that is the mission of NASA.

Today we find ourselves in yet another space race, this time with China.

We cannot operate our science agencies on the cheap, and we should not operate them without clear, multi-year direction.