Bill Nelson: “Putting this together has been tough for you. It is a good first step, but we have a long way to go.”

It is critical that NASA remain focused on its core mission.

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

We go with commercial partners because the third mission, we are going into lunar orbit.

That's like eating our seed corn. We're not going to have anything to plant next year in the quest of trying to understand what is part of the statutes for NASA, which is to search for life, and therefore to understand who we are, what we…