Bill Nelson: “And the authorization--just to build on your comments, the authorization bill requires NASA to look for these types of…”

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

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.

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

I want to see it increase and, thus, all the more reason that you all need to keep us out of budgetary chaos.