Bill Nelson: “How do we ensure that we do not compromise these credible local voices in our effort to CVE?”

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…

Let me define the problem and give you the background.

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.

Everything that we are doing is being approached in this commercial public/private partnership.