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• https://www.doi.gov/employees/news/landsat-view-50

• http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Landsat_data_users_handbook

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October 11, 2016 / Looking into the past to see the future on Earth Observation Day

• https://www.usgs.gov/news/imaging-past

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50th Anniversary of a 'Earth Observation' Program, a Vision of What Becomes a Multi-decade Landsat Mission

Background

Stewart Udall proposes an 'Earth Observation' program in 1966- http://eros.usgs.gov/udall50thanniversary/udall.php

• http://eros.usgs.gov/udall50thanniversary/documents/1966.09.21-DOI-Udall-Earth%20Resources%20Studied%20From%20Space.pdf

In 2022, a 'Golden Anniversary' ...

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A 'Near Ending' of the Landsat program

President Reagan moves to cancel Landsat, George Brown acts to continue Landsat

• https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1989/03/02/451189.html?pageNumber=54

Congressman George Brown's political action saved the Landsat program. The Congressman out in front of "big science" for decades was a key figure in the Landsat program, the long-running database of imagery of Earth that is moving on to its fifth decade with Landsat 9 (and open access) as a result of Brown's efforts. On the House science committee for over 30 years, George led an array of science efforts, including one that greens look to as prescient -- he drafted legislation establishing the first national climate change research program via the National Climate Program Act of 1978. Congressman Brown, from 1964 until his untimely passing in 1999, was a mentor for your GreenPolicy Siterunner.

NASA: Earth Sciences

Landsat 9

Landsat 9 propels the program past 50 years of collecting global land cover data

• https://www.usgs.gov/landsat-missions | https://www.usgs.gov/landsat-missions/landsat-9

Landsat 9 was successfully launched on Monday, Sept. 27, 2021 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Landsat 9 data is publicly available from USGS.

Landsat 9 — a partnership between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey— continues the Landsat program’s critical role in monitoring, understanding and managing the land resources needed to sustain human life.

Landsat 9 continues to provide a critical, one-of-a-kind, long-running database of #EarthScience imagery of the home planet and life-support systems

• https://blogs.nasa.gov/landsat9/2021/09/27/landsat-9-launches/

• http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/04/a-new-satellite-for-one-of-the-great-us-space-programs/390711/

• http://spaceflightnow.com/2015/04/21/multiple-satellites-planned-in-long-term-landsat-program/

• http://www.gizmag.com/nasa-landsat-9-usgs/37083/

• http://spacenews.com/landsat-9-office-opens-at-goddard-procurement-decisions-loom/

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