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• http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:NASA

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Act was signed into law on July 29, 1958.

In the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which established the agency in 1958, the first objective of the agency was listed as "the expansion of human knowledge of the earth and of phenomena in the atmosphere and space." -- https://www.nasa.gov/offices/ogc/about/space_act1.html

The Space Act has been amended many times since 1958 but these goals have been little changed. In NASA’s Authorization Act for 1985 the expansion of human knowledge “of the Earth” was added to goal 1 -- https://history.nasa.gov/spaceact-legishistory.pdf

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"We refer to the mission statement in all our research proposals that go out for peer review, whenever we have strategy meetings," said Philip B. Russell, a 25-year NASA veteran who is an atmospheric chemist at the Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. "As civil servants, we're paid to carry out NASA's mission. When there was that very easy-to-understand statement that our job is to protect the planet, that made it much easier to justify this kind of work."

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Earth Missions List

• https://www.nasa.gov/content/earth-missions-list

Atmosphere

AIM

Aqua

ARCTAS

ATTREX

Aura

CALIPSO

CHAMP

CINDI

Cloudsat

DISCOVER-AQ

Glory

GOES

ICEsat

ICESat-2

NOAA-N

NOAA-N Prime

NPP

Operation Ice Bridge

POES

Van Allen Probes/Radiation Belt Storm Probes

RapidScat

TDRS

Terra

:Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission

Upper Atmosphere Radiation Satellite (UARS)

Climate

Aquarius

ARCTAS

ATTREX

Aura

CALIPSO

Cloudsat

DISCOVER-AQ

Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM)

Glory

GOES

Jason

Landsat

LDCM

NOAA-N

NOAA-N Prime

NPP

Ocean Surface Topography Mission

Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2)

POES

Van Allen Probes/Radiation Belt Storm Probes

SERVIR

SMAP (Soil Moisture Active Passive)

Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE)

TDRS

Terra

Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission

Upper Atmosphere Radiation Satellite (UARS)

Continental Drift and Geodynamics

LAGEOS 1 and 2

Van Allen Probes/Radiation Belt Storm Probes

TDRS

Gravity

Gravity Probe-B

Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)

Van Allen Probes/Radiation Belt Storm Probes

TDRS

Hurricanes

CYGNSS (Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System)

GOES

Hurricanes

NPP

Polar

Van Allen Probes/Radiation Belt Storm Probes

TDRS

Terra

Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission

Ice

ICEsat

Landsat

LDCM

Operation Ice Bridge

Radiation Belt Storm Probes (Van Allen Probes)

TDRS (Tracking and Data Relay Satellite)

Land and Vegetation

Aqua

ICEsat

ICESat-2

Landsat

LDCM

NPP

Operation Ice Bridge

Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2)

Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP)

Shuttle Radar Topography Mission

SMAP (Soil Moisture Active Passive)

TDRS

Terra

Oceans

Aqua

Aquarius

Jason

NOAA-N Prime

Ocean Surface Topography Mission

Van Allen Probes/Radiation Belt Storm Probes

RapidScat

TDRS

Terra

TOPEX/Poseidon

Ozone

Aura

NOAA-N Prime

Van Allen Probes/Radiation Belt Storm Probes

TDRS

TOMS-EP*

Upper Atmosphere Radiation Satellite (UARS)

Sun and its Influence on Earth

CHAMP

Earth Radiation Budget Satellite

Explorer

FAST

Geotail

Hinode (Solar-b)

IMAGE

IRIS: Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph

Polar

Van Allen Probes/Radiation Belt Storm Probes

RHESSI

SDO

SOHO

Solar Anomalous and Magnetospherice Particle Explorer (SAMPEX)

Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE)

STEREO

TDRS

Terra

THEMIS

TIMED

TRACE

Ulysses

WIND

Water Cycle

Aqua

ATTREX

GOES

NPP

POES

Van Allen Probes/Radiation Belt Storm Probes

SMAP (Soil Moisture Active Passive)

TDRS

Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission

Weather

ATTREX

GOES

NOAA-N

NOAA-N Prime

NPP

POES

Van Allen Probes/Radiation Belt Storm Probes

SERVIR

TDRS

Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission

Wildfires

Fire and Smoke

GOES

Landsat

LDCM

Earth Observing-1

Van Allen Probes/Radiation Belt Storm Probes

TDRS

Terra

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