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For anyone interested in how America's civilian space agency became a critical force in advancing earth science, including climate change research, The View from Space is essential reading. The authors provide a comprehensive policy history of the evolution of NASA's Earth Observing System and the politics that made it possible. --W. Henry Lambright, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University As humanity grapples with its epochal impacts on the planetary environment, a network of NASA satellites beams down data about the wide-ranging effects of global climate change. This Earth Observing System (EOS), first envisioned in the 1980s, provides the critical view from space that Richard Leshner and Thor Hogan cover in this important study. Their detailed analysis of the policymaking process that culminated in NASA's multibillion dollar EOS also provides a revealing view from Earth of the institutional players who worked hard on the ground--and will have to continue to do so--to ensure the United States invests in essential space-based environmental research. --James Spiller, author of Frontiers for the American Century: Outer Space, Antarctica, and Cold War Nationalism While most books on space exploration focus on NASA's adventures on the moon, to Mars, and throughout deep space, Leshner and Hogan turn their tale back around toward Earth. They do this by bringing readers along on a historical investigation of Mission to Planet Earth, NASA's most comprehensive attempt to deploy space technology and science to study and understand our own global environment. The View from Space is thus a must-read for scientists, policymakers, politicians, and anyone from the general public who is concerned with our current climate crisis. --Neil M. Maher, author of Apollo in the Age of Aquarius

The View from Space illustrates how [the Earth Observing System] came into being, and how it overcame numerous policy challenges. The authors tie that into academic models of policy development and bureaucracies, but even if you're not interested in those academic approaches, the book is still a fascinating history of now NASA's modern-day Earth science program emerged decades ago. It doesn't get the attention of launching astronauts or landing Mars rovers, but it may be just as important, if not more so.--Jeff Foust, The Space Review For anyone interested in how America's civilian space agency became a critical force in advancing earth science, including climate change research, The View from Space is essential reading. The authors provide a comprehensive policy history of the evolution of NASA's Earth Observing System and the politics that made it possible.--W. Henry Lambright, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University As humanity grapples with its epochal impacts on the planetary environment, a network of NASA satellites beams down data about the wide-ranging effects of global climate change. This Earth Observing System (EOS), first envisioned in the 1980s, provides the critical view from space that Richard Leshner and Thor Hogan cover in this important study. Their detailed analysis of the policymaking process that culminated in NASA's multibillion dollar EOS also provides a revealing view from Earth of the institutional players who worked hard on the ground--and will have to continue to do so--to ensure the United States invests in essential space-based environmental research.--James Spiller, author of Frontiers for the American Century: Outer Space, Antarctica, and Cold War Nationalism While most books on space exploration focus on NASA's adventures on the moon, to Mars, and throughout deep space, Leshner and Hogan turn their tale back around toward Earth. They do this by bringing readers along on a historical investigation of Mission to Planet Earth, NASA's most comprehensive attempt to deploy space technology and science to study and understand our own global environment. The View from Space is thus a must-read for scientists, policymakers, politicians, and anyone from the general public who is concerned with our current climate crisis.--Neil M. Maher, author of Apollo in the Age of Aquarius

For anyone interested in how America's civilian space agency became a critical force in advancing earth science, including climate change research, The View from Space is essential reading. The authors provide a comprehensive policy history of the evolution of NASA's Earth Observing System and the politics that made it possible. - W. Henry Lambright, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University As humanity grapples with its epochal impacts on the planetary environment, a network of NASA satellites beams down data about the wide-ranging effects of global climate change. This Earth Observing System (EOS), first envisioned in the 1980s, provides the critical view from space that Richard Leshner and Thor Hogan cover in this important study. Their detailed analysis of the policymaking process that culminated in NASA's multibillion dollar EOS also provides a revealing view from Earth of the institutional players who worked hard on the ground-and will have to continue to do so-to ensure the United States invests in essential space-based environmental research. - James Spiller, author of Frontiers for the American Century: Outer Space, Antarctica, and Cold War Nationalism While most books on space exploration focus on NASA's adventures on the moon, to Mars, and throughout deep space, Leshner and Hogan turn their tale back around toward Earth. They do this by bringing readers along on a historical investigation of Mission to Planet Earth, NASA's most comprehensive attempt to deploy space technology and science to study and understand our own global environment. The View from Space is thus a must-read for scientists, policymakers, politicians, and anyone from the general public who is concerned with our current climate crisis. - Neil M. Maher, author of Apollo in the Age of Aquarius

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Richard B. Leshner is vice president of government and regulatory affairs at Planet Labs, Inc., in Washington, DC. He worked for nearly a decade at NASA headquarters and served as a senior policy analyst for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2009–2011. Thor Hogan is an associate professor of politics and environmental sustainability at Earlham College in Indiana. He was formerly director of the Space Policy Project at the RAND Corporation’s Science and Technology Policy Institute. He is the author of Hydrocarbon Nation: How Energy Security Made Our Nation Great and Climate Security Will Save Us and Mars Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Space Exploration Initiative.

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