Bill Nelson: “I would like at an appropriate setting, perhaps a closed setting, for us also to talk about the new military role that…”

It is the research and development that allows this country to move forward.

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

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

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.