STEM is--we've had some discussion here already, extensively, about the importance of STEM.
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Bill Nelson is an American politician and attorney who served as a United States Senator from Florida from 2001 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented Florida's 9th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2001. Nelson also held the position of Florida's Insurance Commissioner from 1995 to 1999, where he focused on consumer protection and insurance reform.
NASA's responsibility is to make sure that it is safe, particularly when you put humans strapped in to all of that explosive potential.
I am requesting that right now, and suggesting that a way to do that is the jobs bill.
Several years ago when Ted Cruz and I were leading the Space Subcommittee of the Commerce Committee, we proposed that the date of 2024 be extended to 2030 for exactly the reasons that you just articulated.
It will be interesting to be tuned into that because the primacy of our space program...
As a matter of fact, Senator, your bridge is number one on the list and, absolutely.
It will launch uncrewed. It will go way out beyond the Moon, come back, the capsule will land in the ocean.
President Putin actually talked very favorably about the cooperation with U.S. in space.





