Bill Nelson: “We have to use our best judgment. And we're losing jobs all over the place because of simply the Federal rules that are…”

In the parlance of the South, this dog doesn't hunt.

Our decision is that it is more profitable for us to go to the South Pole of the Moon, because we think that is where the water is.

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.