Bill Nelson: “Yet you have had some interceptor successes?”

Continued Congressional support is critical to the success of the CLD program.

Our seed corn is research and development. We do not want to ever give that up, and that is the mission of NASA.

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

One of the reasons you and I were able to accomplish so much on this committee is both of us worked very hard to keep politics out of NASA and to focus on the core mission of exploration.