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For NASA to continue to innovate, we need to attract the next generation of engineers, inventors, chemists, biologists, astronauts, and so much more.

NASA is committed to building a diverse, skilled future STEM workforce--our next generation of explorers with the technical skills needed to carry forward our Nation's vital mission.

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

When we find those, by the way, not only looking for life, we start to understand their development, and we better understand who we are, why we are here, how we got here, and all of this evolution of the cosmos.