Bill Nelson: “It is a real problem, and we are going to have some catastrophic consequences if we cannot get nations that are…”

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

Look what happened when we spent the money on the Apollo program. Two generations of technology development came out of it.

Understand that this isn't all like we are pouring money down a rathole. Look what it is doing for our country.

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…