Bill Nelson: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I, too, am way overdue for another meeting, so I am going to slip out as well.”

There are, in fact, private companies that are getting into the business now of supersonic transports, but they do not have this characteristic.

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.

This time, even on the first crew, the ones that are coming here to Capitol Hill today, our first international astronaut is Jeremy Hansen.

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