Bill Nelson: “Treasury, please understand the impatience of the Senators on this panel who have been responsible in passing this Act.”

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.

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.

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.