Bill Nelson: “Well, are you saying 20 years from now? It was a twenty-year endeavor, but it started about ten years ago.”

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

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…

It is critical that NASA remain focused on its core mission.

For NASA to continue to innovate, we need to attract the next generation of engineers, inventors, chemists, biologists, astronauts, and so much more.