After the success of DART, we should fund a DART variant to sit in cold storage for a quick asteroid response launch. 6 years isn’t necessarily a long time to

After the success of DART, we should fund a DART variant to sit in cold storage for a quick asteroid response launch. 6 years isn’t necessarily a long time to develop and build a program like this from scratch. And deciding on every potential impact whether to start funding a deflector will cut even further into development time.