NASA’s Goals Delete Mention of Home Planet - New York Times

NASA’s Goals Delete Mention of Home Planet - New York Times

From 2002 until this year, NASA’s mission statement, prominently featured in its budget and planning documents, read: “To understand and protect our home planet; to explore the universe and search for life; to inspire the next generation of explorers ... as only NASA can.

”In early February, the statement was quietly altered, with the phrase
“to understand and protect our home planet” deleted. In
this year’s budget and planning documents, the agency’s
mission is “to pioneer the future in space exploration,
scientific discovery and aeronautics research.”