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GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: In the late 1960s and early 70s, Congressman George Brown on the Space and Technology Committee was pressing forward with NASA's development of the first array of earth science satellite missions. Near the top of his list of project missions was LANDSAT 1. | |||
Representative Brown was out in front of "Big Science". In his decades on the House Science, Space & Technology Committee, he worked to expand the reach of science. He knew that [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:You_can_manage_only_what_you_can_measure_Dr_David_Crisp,_OCO-2,_June_2014_m.jpg good data enabled good policy decisions]. He pressed for first-generation earth science satellites and ongoing earth monitoring missions and data sharing. | |||
<big>'''[[George E. Brown Jr]]'''</big> | |||
* <small>https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr</small> | |||
Among his many initiatives, George Brown was a key figure in proposing, establishing, and then saving the [https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Landsat program] and its [http://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/02/us/last-civilian-photography-satellites-to-shut-down.html unique 'open-access' database of Earth Science imaging] when President Reagan attempted to shut Landsat down. Landsat was a model for all the following [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space earth science research missions from space] and is now moving into its fifth decade with [http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/?p=10391 Landsat 9.] | |||
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GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: In the late 1960s and early 70s, Congressman George Brown on the Space and Technology Committee was pressing forward with NASA's development of the first array of earth science satellite missions. Near the top of his list of project missions was LANDSAT 1.
Representative Brown was out in front of "Big Science". In his decades on the House Science, Space & Technology Committee, he worked to expand the reach of science. He knew that good data enabled good policy decisions. He pressed for first-generation earth science satellites and ongoing earth monitoring missions and data sharing.
Among his many initiatives, George Brown was a key figure in proposing, establishing, and then saving the Landsat program and its unique 'open-access' database of Earth Science imaging when President Reagan attempted to shut Landsat down. Landsat was a model for all the following earth science research missions from space and is now moving into its fifth decade with Landsat 9.
Landsat Image Gallery
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