Bill Nelson: “And that's what has gone on all day.”

Let me define the problem and give you the background.

It is a real problem, and we are going to have some catastrophic consequences if we cannot get nations that are launching things into space to provide enough fuel to have a controlled reentry.

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

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.