Bill Nelson: “We now have to pass the appropriations bill that Senator Mikulski and Senator Hutchison have crafted.”

Understand that this isn't all like we are pouring money down a rathole. Look what it is doing for our country.

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

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.