Bill Nelson: “To what degree have you seen flooding in the streets of Miami Beach in the last couple of years?”

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.

All of us have a responsibility to protect our home planet. After all, it's the only one we have.

It is a real problem, and we are going to have some catastrophic consequences if we cannot get nations that are launching things into space to provide enough fuel to have a controlled reentry.

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