Bill Nelson: “So for a family of four--two adults and two children--you are looking at some real money just to apply for a visa.”

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

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.

It will fly supersonic but its design is such a radical design, that instead of pushing the bow wave going through the atmosphere, as you go from subsonic to supersonic, which causes that audible sound that goes 'boom, boom,' it will…

Let me define the problem and give you the background.