Senator Nelson, you know from, you know, having flown in space, that when you are many orbits ahead of time, very tiny changes in your speed make big differences in the timing of where you are many orbits later.

There would be nothing like focusing the mind than survival with one of these things heading toward us.

Indeed, it has been most enlightening.

Does the fact, as we prepare to go to Mars and the stated goal of rendezvousing and landing and returning with a human crew from an asteroid, does that in any way help us perfect our ability to avoid this kind of catastrophe?

How do you build the risk to these satellites into your business model?

I just, again, want to point out that there is a 30 percent chance that there is a 5-megaton or so impact that is going to happen in a random location on this planet this century.

I think we need to get far more of the information... to the American public.

The American people are certainly appreciative of the conveniences... that all of these conveniences happen to be space-based.

Space debris is really a problem. And I was struck several years ago, the deafening silence, lack of criticism of the Chinese when they launched their ASAT and blew up a satellite, adding tens of thousands of pieces of space debris that…

That's one of the great strengths of our country, is that we assimilate people.

What Senator Collins said is true, and this is just one type of scam.