Keith’s note: according to the Hill: “Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy said Thursday that climate and earth science at the agency will “move aside” as it refocuses solely on space exploration.
“All the climate science and all of the other priorities that the last administration had at NASA we’re going to move aside, and all of the science that we do is going to be directed towards exploration, which is the mission of NASA.” Newsflash Sean Duffy: NASA is chartered to do climate science, you know, the stuff that happens in an “atmosphere”. e.g. National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958” Public Law #85-568,72 Stat. 426. Sec. 102.(c) (1) “The expansion of human knowledge of phenomena in the atmosphere and space;” This picture is Earth’s “atmosphere” as seen from “space”.
Is it not literally in the first part of the Space Act?
(1) The expansion of human knowledge of phenomena in the atmosphere and space;