President stands for election every four years.

Space missions require planning, budget cycling planning, R&D, development, and execution,

that last way longer than these political cycles, these political winds.

And so we need a way to assure the continuity of mission statement for NASA

regardless of what happens in the White House or outside of the White House, and that's a challenge.

It means now a president might want to promise something in the future, twenty years from now

but is that president still president twenty years from now? no.

Is their budget line corresponding to that now? no.

So what does it mean to promise it?

These are the challenges of NASA, and it been that like forever.

so I think in the end, the mission of NASA rest with the electorate,

cause we all want to go into space for reasons that you would I think have to justify for yourself.

I can help you do that, but I'm not gonna twist your arm.

I'm not... I'm just gonna alert you of the co.. of the consequences of inaction, the consequences of action, and what that can do for us.

but then you decide, it's a free country, you decide.

It won't matter what one person thinks relative to the next one.

We'll be electing people into power who all share this vision,

so it's not geez I wonder what this president thinks about the vision, I will know what this president thinks about the vision

because we voted for that person to enter office on a platform that embraces space exploration from the beginning