NASA's budget is in the hands of private contractors. Are you truly ignorant of the separation of NASA engineers, and other professionals/experts a few years back?
Their budget while essentially the same in dollar amounts has been diverted to all manner of things, leaving space exploration especially manned out of the question. One recipient of this change is NASA's climate change mandate, which falls under the category of "planned work"/"meet their goals" nothing however to do with space exploration in any manner or form.
You may keep repeating vague quotes as to "meeting their planned work/ goals/ mission(s)", I am simply stating that the "goal"/"mission" has changed radically.
If you wish a NASA that monitors climate change, etc at the expense of space exploration then you have what you want, and there is no need for discussion.
The point here is your comment stated he "gutted" NASA. That's what I was responding to and based on what I have read and quoted from NASA above - gutted is a sensationalist comment.
NASA seems to be a excellent organization to help monitor climate change. They do have a birds eye view.
There is nothing vague about my quotes - they come directly from the article I link to.
NASA's budget is in the hands of private contractors. Are you truly ignorant of the separation of NASA engineers, and other professionals/experts a few years back?
Their budget while essentially the same in dollar amounts has been diverted to all manner of things, leaving space exploration especially manned out of the question. One recipient of this change is NASA's climate change mandate, which falls under the category of "planned work"/"meet their goals" nothing however to do with space exploration in any manner or form.
You may keep repeating vague quotes as to "meeting their planned work/ goals/ mission(s)", I am simply stating that the "goal"/"mission" has changed radically.
If you wish a NASA that monitors climate change, etc at the expense of space exploration then you have what you want, and there is no need for discussion.
The point here is your comment stated he "gutted" NASA. That's what I was responding to and based on what I have read and quoted from NASA above - gutted is a sensationalist comment. NASA seems to be a excellent organization to help monitor climate change. They do have a birds eye view.
There is nothing vague about my quotes - they come directly from the article I link to.