Bill Nelson: “I would not want to see them get there first and then claim this is our territory in the South Pole, you stay out.”

Today we find ourselves in yet another space race, this time with China.

When we find those, by the way, not only looking for life, we start to understand their development, and we better understand who we are, why we are here, how we got here, and all of this evolution of the cosmos.

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…

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