Bill Nelson: “Does this suggest incompetence on the part of the contractor?”

This is a watershed moment for planetary defense and all of humanity.

We are on the same page, and NASA owns and operates that local public water system, so we have every reason to continue this investigation.

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.

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.