Bill Nelson: “But in the way that it is put about in the budgeting, it gets confused.”

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…

We do everything that we can to partner with not only commercial industry but also universities and other academic institutions.

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