If You Were in Charge of NASA and Wanted to Fund

Essay

If you were in charge of NASA and wanted to fund a mission to search for life elsewhere,what type of mission would you choose? Would you travel to someplace in the solar system (what place?),look for evidence remotely in distant solar systems,listen for alien contact,or something else entirely? Explain what you would do,defend why that is your favored approach,and tell what you would hope to find.