Bill Nelson: “Senator Bill Nelson approached me and asked me to hold this field hearing because of his concern that the…”

NASA clearly has a vested interest in attracting, engaging, and preparing its future STEM professionals.

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…

One of the reasons you and I were able to accomplish so much on this committee is both of us worked very hard to keep politics out of NASA and to focus on the core mission of exploration.

Continued Congressional support is critical to the success of the CLD program.