January 6, 2006

NASA Pulls The Plug (Finally) on Goresat

NASA Terminates Gore's Eye on Earth, Science (subscription)

"The Deep Space Climate Observatory began life in March 1998 when then-Vice President Al Gore proposed a mission, called Triana, to beam back real-time images of the whole Earth. Ridiculed by Republicans as Goresat, the project was resuscitated after a 2000 report from the National Research Council of the National Academies said it could do important research. But last month, NASA science chief Mary Cleave wrote scientists that "the context of competing priorities and the state of the budget for the foreseeable future precludes continuation of the project."


Posted by kcowing at January 6, 2006 12:51 PM

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