Bill Nelson: “Thank you very much for your very heartfelt testimony.”

NASA is committed to building a diverse, skilled future STEM workforce--our next generation of explorers with the technical skills needed to carry forward our Nation's vital mission.

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

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

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