Bill Nelson: “Have you got any comments that we might have been able to see cost savings when negotiating the next multiyear contract?”

We cannot operate our science agencies on the cheap, and we should not operate them without clear, multi-year direction.

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

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.