Bill Nelson: “What seems to be the thought of some folks is, I will sacrifice until your last base.”

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

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.

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.

NASA has proven we are serious as a defender of the planet.