Bill Nelson: “This is a topic of enormous interest and import.”

All of us have a responsibility to protect our home planet. After all, it's the only one we have.

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

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

When we find those, by the way, not only looking for life, we start to understand their development, and we better understand who we are, why we are here, how we got here, and all of this evolution of the cosmos.