Alien. She bristles, and says sharply: "I'm from Germany." And a few other places, as her American accent might suggest, but she's from Earth, is her point. She's from Earth, and she was wrong, or else she wouldn't still be alive.

The cold tension doesn't reduce even one bit.

She doesn't recognise the name IASA, but the acronym makes it sound like some private outfit, named closely enough to NASA to feed off public conflation of the two. Morgan isn't impressed.