Bill Nelson: “You have to have somebody on the ground who does that and somebody who is a professional in doing that.”

It is the research and development that allows this country to move forward.

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.

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

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