Bill Nelson: “We go with commercial partners because the third mission, we are going into lunar orbit.”

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

This is a watershed moment for planetary defense and all of humanity.

Not only work with you, we want it to work, because the Habitable Worlds, which is one that we go in the 2040s, we have got to start it now.

Our decision is that it is more profitable for us to go to the South Pole of the Moon, because we think that is where the water is.