Bill Nelson: “Our children are our most precious assets. We say it over and over again; we want to do everything we can to protect…”

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

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.

We are on the same page, and NASA owns and operates that local public water system, so we have every reason to continue this investigation.

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.