Congressional Concerns About NASA Earth Science
Squeeze on NASA Earth Science Budget Causing Alarm, Congressional Quarterly
“A squeeze on funding for satellites to look down on the Earth’s environment at a time of growing need for research into the effects of climate change is creating alarm among scientists and on Capitol Hill. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, renowned for its pioneering role in science, is seeing its science budget shrink and its satellite Earth observation capacity endangered even as the agency’s overall mission grows.”