Bill Nelson: “Does anybody want to object to the idea that when you're considering cost, you ought to also consider benefits?”

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.

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.

Our decision is that it is more profitable for us to go to the South Pole of the Moon, because we think that is where the water is.