NASA also researches and publishes on climate change.[265] Its statements concur with the global scientific consensus that the climate is warming.[266] Bob Walker, who has advised former US President Donald Trump on space issues, has advocated that NASA should focus on space exploration and that its climate study operations should be transferred to other agencies such as NOAA. Former NASA atmospheric scientist J. Marshall Shepherd countered that Earth science study was built into NASA’s mission at its creation in the 1958 National Aeronautics and Space Act.[267] NASA won the 2020 Webby People’s Voice Award for Green in the category Web.[268]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa). Since 2011, the ELaNa program has provided opportunities for NASA to work with university teams to test emerging technologies and commercial-off-the-shelf solutions by providing launch opportunities for developed CubeSats using NASA procured launch opportunities.[269] By example, two NASA-sponsored CubeSats launched in June 2022 on a Virgin Orbit LauncherOne vehicle as the ELaNa 39 mission.[270]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cubes in Space. NASA started an annual competition in 2014 named “Cubes in Space”.[271] It is jointly organized by NASA and the global education company I Doodle Learning, with the objective of teaching school students aged 11\u201318 to design and build scientific experiments to be launched into space on a NASA rocket or balloon. On June 21, 2017, the world’s smallest satellite, KalamSAT, was launched.[272]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NASA also researches and publishes on climate change.[265] Its statements concur with the global scientific consensus that the climate is warming.[266] Bob Walker, who has advised former US President Donald Trump on space issues, has advocated that NASA should focus on space exploration and that its climate study operations should be transferred to other agencies … Continue reading Climate change and STEM Initiatives<\/span>