Bill Nelson: “Today Senator Bill Nelson of Florida said he'll draft election to change that, to be voted on as early as next week.”

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

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

That's like eating our seed corn. We're not going to have anything to plant next year in the quest of trying to understand what is part of the statutes for NASA, which is to search for life, and therefore to understand who we are, what we…

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