Do You Report to the Administrator of NASA?

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JPL is a federally funded research and development center. We are the only NASA center that is such. So we get to sort of I think our close connection with Caltech of a storied university has great for our innovation culture. And so do you get to set priorities for JPL or does that come from up on high? Because I know you.

Could there be life under the icy surface of Europa? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic Chuck Nice explore interplanetary missions, asteroid mining, and other exciting launches with the Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Laurie Leshin.

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