Bill Nelson: “may I just make one further comment? It is interesting at the very time we are talking about space, we have America's…”

“may I just make one further comment? It is interesting at the very time we are talking about space, we have America's true national hero on the Senate floor, a former colleague of the Senate, John Glenn, who blazed the trail for everybody. When he climbed on that Atlas rocket, he knew there was a 20-percent chance that it was going to blow up. Yet that is the kind of risk that he took so that all of us in America that followed could have these wonderful benefits. I want to note the presence on the floor of former Senator Glenn. (Applause.) The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Michigan.”