Bill Nelson: “This comes down to whether or not you want to lessen the likelihood that you have these kinds of spills in the future.”

Understand that this isn't all like we are pouring money down a rathole. Look what it is doing for our country.

It is a real problem, and we are going to have some catastrophic consequences if we cannot get nations that are launching things into space to provide enough fuel to have a controlled reentry.

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

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.