As it turns out, a lot. The new policy also contains directives “to enhance U.S. global climate change research and sustained monitoring capabilities." It basically is trying to bring our space program a little bit back down to Earth. The plan tasks the NASA Administrator, the Secretary of Commerce, the NOAA Administrator, and the Secretary of Defense to build programs that improve the use of observation satellites to study climate change, oceans, and coasts, and to forecast the weather.
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