Bill Nelson: “I want to ask you about--as we're trying to give the warfighter and the commander greater flexibility of getting up…”

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.

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.

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.

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.