Bill Nelson

I would not want to see them get there first and then claim this is our territory in the South Pole, you stay out.

You and I in this committee have a different approach to what is happening to the earth's climate.

I commend you for a multi-year proposal.

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.

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

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

We are seeing in front of our eyes the change of air transport and mobility as a result of drones.

The X-59, which is this extraordinarily super designed needle-nosed aircraft is going to fly at the end of this year.

One of the obvious examples is the ASAT test that was done by China a decade ago put tens of thousands of pieces right in that zone of altitude of where a lot of our spacecraft are.

We have $5 billion of unmet needs on infrastructure.

This time, even on the first crew, the ones that are coming here to Capitol Hill today, our first international astronaut is Jeremy Hansen.

As a result of these, we are going to have a 3D compendium of everything that is happening to the earth.

If we can identify 90 percent of the asteroids that are 140 meters wide, then we are well on our way.

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

It will prepare America to compete--and succeed--in the 21st century.

But this time we are going to do it by working with Boeing of designing a high, thin wing, high on the fuselage.

NASA, Commerce, Defense are developing recommendations to leverage the manufacturing here in America.

President Xi and the CCP are hell-bent on dominating us on every front.

If we show up at the Shackleton Crater, I highly doubt the communist--Chinese Communist Party will care much about how we have advanced an equity action plan.

We are on the same page, and NASA owns and operates that local public water system, so we have every reason to continue this investigation.

Is there a market out there to cut that almost in half? And I suspect there is.

For the defense of the country, both defensive and offensive, space has become the next battleground. It's the high ground. And what you've seen is not only satellites that give us early warning of any attack on Earth, including a nuclear…

We're in a space race. And we want to get to the south pole of the moon where the resources are, where we think water is.

What Putin has done in Ukraine is inexcusable. It's a slaughter. It's, it's awful.

NASA's budget request of almost $26 billion is clearly designed to keep the core missions of the agency on track.