Bill Nelson actually said...

"I would suggest that in your position with the NRC's Space Studies Board, you might want to have them look at this topic--the impacts to the space program of the different funding scenarios, including..."

"when Apollo was developed, other than the goal of getting to the Moon and back, it was also then utilized for other things, a thaw in the Cold War."

"the average American thinks that the space program is over because they have attached the visible evidences of the space program naturally to the Space Shuttle."

"But still the uncertainty of the funding of the future."