The issue focused on concerns over allegations that NASA scientist Harold White lied about scientific experiments performed by scientists working with astronauts aboard the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Galileo spacecraft. NASA concluded White falsified science reports for NASA contracts worth tens of millions of dollars. The investigations determined White fabricated studies and laboratory experiments in order to justify NASA contracting awards to researchers who conducted research using Hubble images of galaxies beyond our Milky Way galaxy. NASA scientist Ellen Stofan stated at a congressional hearing in February 2010: "Harold White deliberately deceived