Bill Nelson: “It's a state responsibility.”

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 are on the same page, and NASA owns and operates that local public water system, so we have every reason to continue this investigation.

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

Look what happened when we spent the money on the Apollo program. Two generations of technology development came out of it.