Bill Nelson: “One out of every 10 American jobs depends on exports, which in 2008 generated $1.8 trillion in U.S. business revenue.”

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.

What we are going to do is a multi-year test, taking it to different locations all over the United States, and see if the muffled roar is acceptable to the people on the ground.

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

We can warn that there is likely to be a wildfire in a particular forest.