And are you in a position, from your platform of the 2013 budget and what you project into the future, are you in a position to really encourage the private sector to get involved and develop these space exploration technologies that are advanced?
Nelson questions the ability to engage the private sector in space technology development.
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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…
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Understand that this isn't all like we are pouring money down a rathole. Look what it is doing for our country.
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