Bill Nelson: “We must maintain our lead and leadership in space.”

NASA has proven we are serious as a defender of the planet.

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…

Not only work with you, we want it to work, because the Habitable Worlds, which is one that we go in the 2040s, we have got to start it now.

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