Bill Nelson: “I want to thank the Senator again. We stood shoulder to shoulder and we were able to get these two additional flights…”

“I want to thank the Senator again. We stood shoulder to shoulder and we were able to get these two additional flights, which the Senator from Texas just chronicled, that no sooner had Mark Kelly and his crew put the alpha magnetic spectrometer up on the space station that it started collecting these cosmic rays. These are subatomic particles that are flying around in space that we try to duplicate down here on Earth by smacking atoms together in accelerators to understand subatomic particles, and we have them out there being collected right now on the space station in the AMS. It was on the station one day after they put it there. It is collecting this. It is going to help us learn all the way back to the origin of the universe.”