The co-chair of the most recent Earth science decadal survey warned that NASA faces “difficult choices” between continuing current missions and starting new missions given limited funding.At a Jan. 17 meeting of the NASA Advisory Council, Waleed Abdalati, a member of the council and former NASA chief scientist, said several factors have resulted in a budget crunch for the agency’s Earth science program and that the decadal survey’s advice for dealing with funding problems has largely been exhausted.“It’s pretty clear that the resources are not and will not be available to fully implement the intended program,” he said. “The options are delaying planned missions or terminating extended missions.”
It is remarkable to me how little attention this has gotten in the broad @NASAEarth science and tech communities thus far. A decision needs to be made about the importance of that priority.