Bill Nelson: “The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 directed the Secretary of Defense to develop and implement a…”

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

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

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

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…