Credit: Adapted from Andrea Wright, Flickr Creative Commons In case you haven't heard, Republicans have pushed through a spending measure in the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee that would slash more than $300 million from NASA's Earth science programs. They argue that NASA should get back to its true mission: Exploring space, not studying and monitoring Earth. Republican Senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz summed up the GOP's argument during a Senate hearing in March (as reported by Andrew Freedman of Mashable):
"Almost any American would agree that the core function of NASA is to explore space. That's what inspires little boys and little girls across this country." "I am concerned that NASA in the current environment has lost its full focus on that core mission."
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Let's put aside the obvious fact that Earth ...
