The evaluation criteria will be similar to criteria used in previous Discovery program Announcements of Opportunity, that is, scientific merit, scientific implementation merit and feasibility, and technical merit and feasibility.

Deep Impact and Stardust were engineered first and foremost to be able to achieve their prime missions, interaction with comets Tempel 1 and Wild 2. Although these primary missions have been the top priority, each has some capacity remaining that we are willing to make available to the space science community.

Our corn research teams will be working more closely with area farmers and will have more eyes in the fields making better product advancement decisions.

Pioneer has a very robust research pipeline. This new research center will help us make the most of that pipeline for customers in this area. Our corn research teams will be working more closely with area farmers and will have more eyes in the fields making better product advancement decisions.

we should note that there will never be merit raises.

The allegations are entirely without merit and will be defended vigorously.