Bill Nelson: “I choose to disagree with that characterization. It was a namby-pamby watered-down statement that was oblique, at best.”

We cannot identify every object. However, NEO Surveyor will be able to identify 90 percent of all the potential asteroids that are greater than 140 meters wide within the 10 years of the launch.

NASA is committed to building a diverse, skilled future STEM workforce--our next generation of explorers with the technical skills needed to carry forward our Nation's vital mission.

Our seed corn is research and development. We do not want to ever give that up, and that is the mission of NASA.

I assure you NASA is and will be if, I am around, not only bipartisan, but nonpartisan, and it will continue that way.