Bill Nelson: “The administration--and I'm not just speaking of the Coast Guard--has not learned the lessons”

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

Look what happened when we spent the money on the Apollo program. Two generations of technology development came out of it.

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…

Our decision is that it is more profitable for us to go to the South Pole of the Moon, because we think that is where the water is.