Bill Nelson: “By the way, one of you mentioned that the life of the International Space Station ought to be extended to its expected…”

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

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

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…

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.