Bill Nelson: “The gap was created 5 years ago, and that it is a fait accompli.”

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.

We go with commercial partners because the third mission, we are going into lunar orbit.

It is a real problem, and we are going to have some catastrophic consequences if we cannot get nations that are launching things into space to provide enough fuel to have a controlled reentry.

Look what happened when we spent the money on the Apollo program. Two generations of technology development came out of it.