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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
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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