Bill Nelson: “It was back a decade or so ago that we said we were going to start the process of the replacement of the RD-180.”

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.

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…

I want to see it increase and, thus, all the more reason that you all need to keep us out of budgetary chaos.

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