Mark Kelly: “Some other nation isn't going to pick up the kind of…”

“Or he could let NASA, you know, just kind of die along with other science that only the United States has been able to do. You know, Some other nation isn't going to pick up the kind of scientific research that we do at places like the Jet Propulsion Laboratory or the NIH and universities. So I'm really disappointed to see these cuts. I've got a friend of mine, by the way, a guy flew in space with one of my crew members for my last mission in 2011.” (07:20–07:31)

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