Bill Nelson: “So the start date is not a problem. It is entirely dependent upon the length of time that the Shuttle flies.”

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.

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.

That's like eating our seed corn. We're not going to have anything to plant next year in the quest of trying to understand what is part of the statutes for NASA, which is to search for life, and therefore to understand who we are, what we…