Bill Nelson: “I would like to thank Senator Nelson and his staff for answering our pleas for help.”

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

We are going to have a 3D compendium of everything that is happening to the earth.

One of the reasons you and I were able to accomplish so much on this committee is both of us worked very hard to keep politics out of NASA and to focus on the core mission of exploration.

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…