Bill Nelson: “This time, even on the first crew, the ones that are coming here to Capitol Hill today, our first international…”

All of us have a responsibility to protect our home planet. After all, it's the only one we have.

Understand that this isn't all like we are pouring money down a rathole. Look what it is doing for our country.

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.