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We are on the same page, and NASA owns and operates that local public water system, so we have every reason to continue this investigation.

All of us have a responsibility to protect our home planet. After all, it's the only one we have.

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.

One of the reasons you and I were able to accomplish so much on this committee is both of us worked very hard to keep politics out of NASA and to focus on the core mission of exploration.