Bill Nelson: “It is critical in both homeland security, homeland functions in terms of natural disasters.”

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

What we are going to do is a multi-year test, taking it to different locations all over the United States, and see if the muffled roar is acceptable to the people on the ground.

All of us have a responsibility to protect our home planet. After all, it's the only one we have.

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…