Bill Nelson: “I certainly appreciate and applaud the work that you're doing.”

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

Not only work with you, we want it to work, because the Habitable Worlds, which is one that we go in the 2040s, we have got to start it now.

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.

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.