Bill Nelson: “This is obviously a new space race, right? It is a renaissance, really, a new golden era for our space program.”

You and I in this committee have a different approach to what is happening to the earth's climate.

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.

It is the research and development that allows this country to move forward.

One of the reasons you and I were able to accomplish so much on this committee is both of us worked very hard to keep politics out of NASA and to focus on the core mission of exploration.