Yeah , blasts the oring something fierce . <| sep |> While it might seem like a better place for this kind of work at first blush , NASA has expertise in sending up satellites and building scientific instruments that NOAA just doesn ' t . Shutting down NASA ' s climate science work and saying we ' ll give that amount of money to NOAA is disingenuous because NASA does a lot of heavy lifting in the scientific community . I am just glad that GOESR made it up before Trump got in . Since it is a collaborative effort between NOAA and NASA , I think that the policy changes outlined by Walker would have prevented such a program from taking place , and I think that would have been a shame . Too bad the other satellites aren ' t up there yet . Watch them shelve the mostly built satellites and us only end up with one in the series launched . I think this is one of those times when it makes sense to delegate responsibilities , and that this new direction is going to put a halt to a lot of progress .