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blog) Book Review: Storms of my Grandchildren blog) Dr. James Hansen is a senior climatologist and head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA bio), an adjunct professor in the Department of ...
Dr. Alan Stern is the Principal Investigator for the New Horizons mission to distant Pluto and served as associate administrator in charge of the NASA Science Mission Directorate from 2007 to 2008. But this week, he dons the hat of an op-ed writer in the pages of the New York Times:
Another sore point is funding. Not long after taking on the role of Director, Griffin promised he would not shift ‘one thin dime’ from scheduled unmanned missions to human spaceflight. A few months later, those same unmanned programs were slashed by more than 25% in part, some sources clai...
Remember when NASA director Michael Griffin spoke out in defense of global warming? Griffin indicated that it was "arrogant" to think that this was the best possible climate. Though Griffin's pro-warming stance may have been shocking to some, similar statements aren't unusual in ri...