Bill Nelson: “I can assure you they are going to be educated, by the time they get confirmed, about Chinese drywall.”

This was an Apollo 13 moment minus the people.

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

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.