Bill Nelson: “I can assure you that we are absolutely not, and will not, restrict the ability of anybody working at NASA to express…”

When we find those, by the way, not only looking for life, we start to understand their development, and we better understand who we are, why we are here, how we got here, and all of this evolution of the cosmos.

this research is absolutely critical for us exploring the heavens.

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.

I assure you NASA is and will be if, I am around, not only bipartisan, but nonpartisan, and it will continue that way.