Bill Nelson: “We were pressing for a focus on transparency and accountability, and that has certainly been the theme of a lot of your…”

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…

For NASA to continue to innovate, we need to attract the next generation of engineers, inventors, chemists, biologists, astronauts, and so much more.

Our seed corn is research and development. We do not want to ever give that up, and that is the mission of NASA.

Today we find ourselves in yet another space race, this time with China.