Bill Nelson

I think that a lot of the students that come to NASA, they just have this fascination with space.

Where does your plutonium come from now?

And how are you using the International Space Station to interact with your educational programs?

We've got to have data. And we can't keep having these delays like we've had on these reports.

The aviation industry is one of the few industry sectors that brings, still, a trade surplus.

The review of the James Webb highlighted deficiencies in management and budgeting practices at NASA, leading to the schedule delay and also the cost overruns.

I hope that things like James Webb, our Mars missions, can do that kind of thing to our 12- and 13-year-olds today, because this country needs scientists and engineers and mathematicians in the future.

You can imagine what would happen to our space program.

Can you provide us with a status report on the compliance with these requirements?

The speedy restart of domestic production of plutonium-238 is important to maintaining U.S. leadership in planetary science.

Dr. Weiler, you are facing a shortfall in supply of plutonium 238.

Do you intend to continue the program?

What does NASA do with a whole bunch of different partners, private and public, in order to increase STEM education?

How about the Summer of Innovation that was a pilot in 2010?

But, whatever it is, it clearly is in the interest of the U.S. Space Program--for that matter, for the Russians, as well; for anybody participating on the Space Station--it's clearly in the interest of getting an American launch system…

Do you want to venture any numbers of the jobs in that office?

What management or cultural changes do you feel are necessary to accelerate the goal of moving forward the goals of the NASA authorization law?

How much money would you say that NASA has had to spend, since the authorize bill became law, by virtue of that provision in the appropriations bill requiring the continuation of Constellation?

The Inspector General has indicated that NASA is not making the best use of appropriated funds

You've got to get up there, with humans and components. Who knows what the technology--by the time we're ready to go to Mars with humans, we might have new technology that takes us there in 39 days, instead of the 9 or 10 months, which…

Well, that is a very well-stated answer. And I think that that's genuinely the policy that was set out in the authorization law.

Is there any thought that you're going to rebuild Glory?

We're going to have a study?

I believe that the sentiment on the Hill now is that this would be the last temporary continuing resolution that we will pass.

Why don't you just go full bore and bust down some doors, since, when you step on toes, it's not going to make any difference.