Bill Nelson: “I think, as Mr. Cook said, the partnership between the government and the private sector needs to be there.”

Today we find ourselves in yet another space race, this time with China.

Understand that this isn't all like we are pouring money down a rathole. Look what it is doing for our country.

NASA has proven we are serious as a defender of the planet.

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…