Urgentní: Chairman Brian Babin (R-TX)

 To the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology

Attn: Chairman Brian Babin (R-TX)

Subject: Evidence of Critical Security Endangerment Due to NASA PDCO Inaction

Dear Chairman Babin,

Following your committee's May 2025 hearings ("From Detection to Deflection"), we are submitting evidence of NASA's ongoing failure to fulfill its mandate to protect the planet.

The PDCO has officially confirmed that in the event of a threat detection with a lead time of 170 days—as seen with the 3I/ATLAS object in December 2025—the United States and the global community are completely defenseless. This incapacity stems from a refusal to establish emergency protocols for utilizing commercial heavy-lift launch vehicles.

We formally request an investigation into the following:

Whether current PDCO budget expenditures align with the legal mandate for defense, or if they have been diverted into ineffective scientific programs with zero defensive value.

Why no "Concept of Operations" (CONOPS) exists for the emergency mobilization of private sector assets despite the clear and present danger posed by Interstellar Objects (ISOs).

The American taxpayer deserves a planetary defense system that actually defends, not one that merely documents our destruction.

Respectfully,

Milan Rokytka,

TOP chairman 

Memorandum pro Kongres (Výbor pro vědu, vesmír a technologie)

K rukám: Chairman Brian Babin (R-TX) 

Předmět: Důkaz o kritickém ohrožení bezpečnosti v důsledku nečinnosti NASA PDCO

Vážený pane předsedo Babine,

V návaznosti na slyšení Vašeho výboru z května 2025 („Od detekce k odklonu“) Vám předkládáme důkaz o trvající neschopnosti NASA plnit mandát k ochraně planety. 

PDCO oficiálně potvrdilo, že v případě detekce hrozby s varovnou dobou 170 dní (případ 3I/ATLAS z prosince 2025) jsou Spojené státy a zbytek světa zcela bezbranný. Tato neschopnost pramení z odmítání vytvořit krizové protokoly pro využití komerčních těžkých nosičů.

Žádáme o prošetření, zda současné čerpání rozpočtu PDCO odpovídá zákonnému mandátu, nebo zda se jedná o neefektivní vědecký program bez reálné obranné hodnoty.

S pozdravem,

Milan Rokytka,

TOP chairman 

Přílohy: 

Subject: Expiration of Liability due to Procedural Inaction – Final Warning Regarding the Collapse of the Early Response System

Dear Dr. Fast,

Thank you for your latest response. Unfortunately, I must state that our entire correspondence has reached a classic bureaucratic loop, which is fatal in critical areas of existential risk:

You request specific data and studies regarding the 4I/x threat.

At the same time, you admit that:

You have no defined trigger/protocol for a response with a lead time of <180 days.

You have no pre-arranged reconfiguration procedure for the only system with sufficient payload capacity (Starship).

There is no funded development of interceptors capable of handling hyperbolic velocities >50 km/s.

You intend to rely on ad-hoc government coordination on a scale of weeks/months.

In other words:

You are requesting evidence of a threat from a private individual, while the institution mandated and budgeted to detect such threats simultaneously admits that even if it possessed such evidence, it lacks a prepared response mechanism.

This is not scientific caution.

This is a systemic downward and outward transfer of responsibility.

For comparison:

If a fire department said, "Please send us an exact photograph and chemical analysis of the flammables in your burning house, and only then will we consider dispatching a fire engine," this approach would be perceived by the public as a failure of the duty of care. This is precisely the position the PDCO now holds regarding Interstellar Objects (ISOs) with high relative velocity.

Summary of the current status as of December 25, 2025:

No operational protocol for an ISO with a lead time of <½ year.

No pre-prepared capacity for kinetic impact at entry speeds of 50–80 km/s.

No "break-glass" mechanism for the emergency re-prioritization of commercial heavy-lift launch vehicles.

Official position: "No ISO has been dangerous so far → there is no need to prepare for one that might be."

This approach is no longer merely conservative. It is statistically, organizationally, and ethically unsustainable.

Therefore, I hereby request the following be recorded for the purpose of any future investigation or Congressional review:

Official Record of Preparedness Failure (as of Dec 25, 2025):

The PDCO currently possesses no operational, procedural, or technical mechanism that would allow for an effective response to the detection of an Interstellar Object on a collision course with a remaining time to impact of less than 180 days.

I consider this situation a critical security deficit, the existence of which has been repeatedly documented by this correspondence and in no way refuted.

I will inform the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Permanent Mission of the Czech Republic to the UN (Vienna – COPUOS), and selected members of the space policy committees in the European Parliament about the content of this communication as evidence of a systemic failure to fulfill obligations arising from international cooperation in planetary defense.

At the same time, I remain ready for immediate cooperation on the formulation of a "Black Sky" protocol or any other emergency framework, should NASA/PDCO change its current stance from "waiting for data" to "initiating the preparation of response capacities."

Sincerely, and with the hope that this letter remains merely a historical curiosity,

Milan Rokytka

Chairman of TOP (Pro tempore for Planetary Security Agenda)