NASA Shifts From Climate Sciences to Space Exploration

NASA plans to ditch its pursuit of climate sciences to focus on exploring the moon and Mars.

Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy, who is also transportation secretary, said last week that the agency’s purpose is the exploration of space and not Earth’s climate, Space.com reported Wednesday.

“All of the climate science and all of the other priorities that the last administration had at NASA, we’re going to move aside,” said Duffy, according to Space.com, which cited an Aug. 14 interview he gave with Fox Business. “All of the science that we do is going to be directed toward exploration, which is the mission of NASA. That’s why we have NASA, is to explore, not to do all of these earth sciences.”