Bill Nelson: “What we find are some alarming facts, that the completion rates range from as high as 57 percent to less than 1 percent.”

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

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

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.