Bill Nelson: “It's clear to you that there is capability at Tyndall.”

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

When we find those, by the way, not only looking for life, we start to understand their development, and we better understand who we are, why we are here, how we got here, and all of this evolution of the cosmos.

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.

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