Bill Nelson: “And you do not have any assurance that that business model is still there to support their commercial rockets. Is that…”

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

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

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…

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