Bill Nelson: “Yes, ma'am, we do need to. Competition is good, it brings the best cost and the most efficient route.”

We are on the same page, and NASA owns and operates that local public water system, so we have every reason to continue this investigation.

We do everything that we can to partner with not only commercial industry but also universities and other academic institutions.

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.

It is a real problem, and we are going to have some catastrophic consequences if we cannot get nations that are launching things into space to provide enough fuel to have a controlled reentry.