Bill Nelson: “NASA has to be involved because it's our astronauts that are at risk.”

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…

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

NASA has proven we are serious as a defender of the planet.