Bill Nelson: “What are the lessons learned from the cancellation of TSAT?”

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

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.

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…

Look what happened when we spent the money on the Apollo program. Two generations of technology development came out of it.