Bill Nelson: “Government is here for a reason. And if you let insurance companies self-regulate, God help us all.”

For NASA to continue to innovate, we need to attract the next generation of engineers, inventors, chemists, biologists, astronauts, and so much more.

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.

Is there a market out there to cut that almost in half? And I suspect there is.

Our seed corn is research and development. We do not want to ever give that up, and that is the mission of NASA.