Bill Nelson

It is also true that every space mission that we have had, there have been delays.

If we are able to service a spacecraft on orbit, then we get extra life out of it.

The old way of doing things was always cost-plus.

NASA is the point of the spear on climate and climate change because all the measurements that are being made are done by instruments that we design, build, launch, and many of them we operate.

You cannot go until it is right, but all these things cost money.

Specifically, that consortium of three States is responsible for 10,000 jobs in the three States, and it is impressive what you all have done.

You need to be able to stretch that process out where you can make composites and it be much more of an assembly line situation.

They are not pulling out. In the last day or so, there are misleading headlines.

This budget will help our Nation--and the world--address climate change.

I hope that there is going to be kind of infrastructure bill that is still going to come out of the Senate.

I see nothing that has interrupted that professional relationship, no matter how awful Putin is conducting a war.

This budget will keep us at the forefront of exploration and discovery through daring and challenging missions like Artemis, which includes returning American astronauts to the Moon as early as 2025.

What we wanted to do, and what you all, the Congress, have made particularly clear to me through hearings all last year, and I happen to agree with you, is that you wanted competition for the ultimate lander.

China is completely a different experience for the U.S. Space Program because there has not been any transparency.

It provides opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, and it promotes diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) throughout the Agency and with our partners.

I hope it does. It will bring about certainty for all agencies of government if that, in fact, happens.

We are moving to really crack down on them.

I do have, in my previous life, some credentials in this area because there is an instrument up there called Discover.

They are simply not transparent. They have not cooperated.

That is so super important to NASA.

I have been out there, and we are afraid that bridge is going to fall in the water.

We are going to create, if you can envision in space terms, a mission control center. It is going to be called the Earth Information Center.

We will not fly astronauts until it is safe, and if that means there is a delay, then we will delay.

Not only repairs and maintenance, but also fueling.

There better be, and you are exactly right. There is no excuse for cost overruns.