Bill Nelson: “As I have shared privately with various people in the government, including NASA, about trying to take care of the…”

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.

Look what happened when we spent the money on the Apollo program. Two generations of technology development came out of it.

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…

Our seed corn is research and development. We do not want to ever give that up, and that is the mission of NASA.