Bill Nelson: “NASA's budget request of almost $26 billion is clearly designed to keep the core missions of the agency on track.”

Understand that this isn't all like we are pouring money down a rathole. Look what it is doing for our country.

It is critical that NASA remain focused on its core mission.

That's like eating our seed corn. We're not going to have anything to plant next year in the quest of trying to understand what is part of the statutes for NASA, which is to search for life, and therefore to understand who we are, what we…

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