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The State of NASA

Under the leadership of new NASA Administrator, former Florida Senator Bill Nelson

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h6LULBZi_0

The agency is expanding its mission to tackle climate change. The plan is to launch five satellites over the next eight years that will enable the observatory to analyze everything from aerosols in the atmosphere to the rise of sea levels.

“All of this data over the next 10 years, when these five observatories are put up, is going to give us a picture of our planet and our climate to understand the changes that are happening,” Nelson said.

• https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/new-nasa-earth-system-observatory-to-help-address-mitigate-climate-change

“When you look out the window of a spacecraft, it really gives you a different perspective,” Nelson said in an interview with Spectrum News.

As it explores the heavens, NASA is now also going to take a closer look at what’s happening here on Earth, by studying how the climate is changing. It’s a mission that is personal for Nelson, a former U.S. Senator and astronaut who flew on the space shuttle Columbia 35 years ago.

“I was seeing how we were messing up our planet, and that made me much more sensitive — to want to be a good steward of our climate."

• https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2021/05/26/nasa-expanding-mission-to-studying-climate-change-on-earth

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