Bill Nelson: “Did you have any discussions with the Department of Defense upon the effect of the cancellation of the solid rocket…”

Yes, ma'am, and let me give you a specific answer to your question.

There are, in fact, private companies that are getting into the business now of supersonic transports, but they do not have this characteristic.

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.

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.