That's like eating our seed corn. We're not going to have anything to plant next year in the quest of trying to understand what is part of the statutes for NASA, which is to search for life, and therefore to understand who we are, what we…

This is a watershed moment for planetary defense and all of humanity.

All of us have a responsibility to protect our home planet. After all, it's the only one we have.

NASA has proven we are serious as a defender of the planet.

In the parlance of the South, this dog doesn't hunt.

It is critical that NASA remain focused on its core mission.

When we find those, by the way, not only looking for life, we start to understand their development, and we better understand who we are, why we are here, how we got here, and all of this evolution of the cosmos.

Our decision is that it is more profitable for us to go to the South Pole of the Moon, because we think that is where the water is.

Look what happened when we spent the money on the Apollo program. Two generations of technology development came out of it.

Understand that this isn't all like we are pouring money down a rathole. Look what it is doing for our country.

Today we find ourselves in yet another space race, this time with China.