Bill Nelson: “Gentlemen, thank you for your service to our country.”

We cannot operate our science agencies on the cheap, and we should not operate them without clear, multi-year direction.

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.

We can warn that there is likely to be a wildfire in a particular forest.

NASA clearly has a vested interest in attracting, engaging, and preparing its future STEM professionals.