Bill Nelson: “Wouldn't that then necessitate having the savings and loan approach that we had, go in and buy up those bad assets and…”

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

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

We can warn that there is likely to be a wildfire in a particular forest.

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.