Sean Duffy, newly appointed acting administrator of NASA, focuses on enhancing human exploration endeavors. He aims to develop a permanent lunar base and a power-providing nuclear reactor. Duffy plans to shift all scientific efforts at NASA toward exploration, sidelining previous priorities, particularly climate science and Earth studies. He proclaims that NASA's mission revolves around exploration rather than addressing environmental concerns. Despite his limited experience with spaceflight, he intends to imprint a significant change in the agency's approach to its scientific objectives.
All the climate science, and all of the other priorities that the last administration had at NASA, we're going to move aside, and all of the science that we do is going to be directed towards exploration, which is the mission of NASA.
Duffy talked up NASA's plans to establish a permanent presence on the Moon and his push to develop a nuclear reactor that could provide power there.
NASA should explore. That's why we have NASA, to explore, not to do all of these Earth sciences.
Duffy's plan emphasizes human exploration and the development of a lunar base while ending efforts to study Earth's changing climate.
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