{"id":79363,"date":"2018-06-09T02:31:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T09:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/nasas-priorities-appear-to-be-out-of-whack-with-what-the-public-wants"},"modified":"2018-06-11T11:09:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T18:09:22","slug":"nasas-priorities-appear-to-be-out-of-whack-with-what-the-public-wants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/nasas-priorities-appear-to-be-out-of-whack-with-what-the-public-wants","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s priorities appear to be out of whack with what the public wants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-priorities-appear-to-be-out-of-whack-with-what-the-public-wants.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent survey of 2,541 Americans by Pew Research Center shows that priorities felt by people are not the same intended by NASA. But: 1) Where the questions t\u2026he most appropriate ones, in order to understand what people really think? 2) Is the NASA\u2019s indicated priority, re-prioritization of human spaceflight by still focusing only on trained astronauts, the best strategic policy, considering the global civilization as the main stakeholder, or even just the US people stakeholder? 3) Which questions were missing, in your opinion, in this survey?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The Trump administration has vowed to make America great again in spaceflight, and the centerpiece of its space policy to date has been a re-prioritization of human spaceflight as central to NASA\u2019s activities. As part of this initiative, the White House has sought to reduce funding for satellites to observe environmental changes on Earth and eliminate NASA\u2019s office of education.<\/p>\n<p>However, a new survey of 2,541 Americans by Pew Research Center, which aims to represent the views of US adults, finds that these views appear to be out of step with public priorities.<\/p>\n<p>The survey asked respondents about their top priorities for NASA, and the highest support came for \u201cmonitor key parts of the Earth\u2019s climate system\u201d (63 percent) and \u201cmonitor asteroids\/objects that could hit the Earth\u201d (62 percent). Sending astronauts to Mars (18 percent), and the Moon (13 percent), lagged far behind as top priorities for respondents.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2018\/06\/nasas-priorities-appear-to-be-out-of-whack-with-what-the-public-wants\/\">https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2018\/06\/nasas-priorities-app...lic-wants\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent survey of 2,541 Americans by Pew Research Center shows that priorities felt by people are not the same intended by NASA. But: 1) Where the questions t\u2026he most appropriate ones, in order to understand what people really think? 2) Is the NASA\u2019s indicated priority, re-prioritization of human spaceflight by still focusing only on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":480,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79428,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79363\/revisions\/79428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}