The facilities don't allow us to achieve our mission or strategic plan fully in our current state.

A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.

There hasn't been a comprehensive strategic plan ever in place at the University. It's a major new initiative, and simply getting many different people onto the same page about what we need to do and how we're going to do it is all work that needs to get done.

It's always attractive to have a new building. There's a lot of flash.

The results from the current mission will be essential for developing a better understanding of the actual asteroid environment, and for making large advances in asteroid science.

The new strategic plan has a fatal flaw and that is the cost - $500 million.