Bill Nelson: “This is the last subcommittee hearing prior the markup of the National Defense Authorization Bill for Fiscal Year 2010.”

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

Not only work with you, we want it to work, because the Habitable Worlds, which is one that we go in the 2040s, we have got to start it now.

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.

For NASA to continue to innovate, we need to attract the next generation of engineers, inventors, chemists, biologists, astronauts, and so much more.