Bill Nelson: “I don't want to concentrate on just the number of Iraqi troops trained, but, rather, your assessment of how reliable…”

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.

It is a real problem, and we are going to have some catastrophic consequences if we cannot get nations that are launching things into space to provide enough fuel to have a controlled reentry.

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

We cannot operate our science agencies on the cheap, and we should not operate them without clear, multi-year direction.