Bill Nelson: “It is going to be a real challenge for us to protect human life, going all the way to Mars.”

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

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.

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