At a congressional hearing on the budget situation for NASA's science programs last week, Dr. Berrion Moore, Director of the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space at the University of New Hampshire, testified about the budget's effects on Earth science programs. Moore was a member of the National Academy of Science panel that last spring warned that NASA's system of Earth-observing satellites was "on the verge of collapse," so he is well-placed to provide an update on what has changed since then.
Unfortunately, as I hinted at earlier, the changes have not been for the better. I will write more on this soon, but meanwhile check out his full statement in front of the House science committee, and an article in the Houston Chronicle about the troubled situation of NASA's Earth science programs.
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