Bill Nelson: “I think that's tragic. I think that's just very tragic.”

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.

Today we find ourselves in yet another space race, this time with China.

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

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.