As a matter of fact, we have already spent $200 million to date to address this groundwater contamination problem, and we are committed to continuing the investigation and evaluation, along with our partner, the New Mexico Environment Department.
Statement on NASA's financial commitment to groundwater contamination efforts.
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That's like eating our seed corn. We're not going to have anything to plant next year in the quest of trying to understand what is part of the statutes for NASA, which is to search for life, and therefore to understand who we are, what we…
We cannot operate our science agencies on the cheap, and we should not operate them without clear, multi-year direction.
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.
It is the research and development that allows this country to move forward.
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