COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - Texas A&M University System is putting in a bid for a contract to manage NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, one of the agency's most famous research labs.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is the world's leader in robotic space exploration.

Since 2019, JPL has partnered with Texas A&M, letting A&M students work on research at JPL and JPL researchers work with A&M. Now, A&M wants to take the partnership a step further.