NASA Still Pursuing Earth Science Onboard International Space Station

摘要

A Sept. 21 SpaceNews article ["In Next Earth Venture Mission, ISS Payloads Need Not Apply," page 13] gives the erroneous impression that NASA is no longer interested in using the International Space Station as a platform for its Earth science investigations. Nothing could be further from the truth. NASA continues to actively solicit ideas for Earth science instruments to attach to the ISS exterior for studying Earth. All three of NASA's Earth Venture Instrument solicitations to date, including the most recent call that just closed this summer, were open to proposals to fly instruments on the ISS.