Bill Nelson: “We cannot identify every object. However, NEO Surveyor will be able to identify 90 percent of all the potential…”

NASA clearly has a vested interest in attracting, engaging, and preparing its future STEM professionals.

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

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 time, even on the first crew, the ones that are coming here to Capitol Hill today, our first international astronaut is Jeremy Hansen.