Bill Nelson: “current and future operations in the global war on terrorism are increasingly requiring mobilization of large numbers of…”

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.

I would say that there is a significant difference of opinion about that.

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

Not only work with you, we want it to work, because the Habitable Worlds, which is one that we go in the 2040s, we have got to start it now.