Bill Nelson: “I want to talk about the lack of progress on Takata air bags.”

For NASA to continue to innovate, we need to attract the next generation of engineers, inventors, chemists, biologists, astronauts, and so much more.

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

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.