Bill Nelson: “Secretary Gates, please provide plans, which Congress can consider, that would eliminate this offset over time.”

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

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

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

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…