Bill Nelson: “I am further concerned that being forced to make those choices can have the effect of undermining the traditional…”

Let me define the problem and give you the background.

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

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.

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.