Bill Nelson: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for holding this hearing to discuss a topic that is certainly of paramount…”

In the parlance of the South, this dog doesn't hunt.

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

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…

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