Donald Trump’s vision for NASA

Roundhouse Radio interviewed Jaymie Matthews, a UBC physics and astronomy professor, about the implications of Donald Trump’s vow to cut climate change research by NASA.

“We have this amazing vantage point to study the earth as a global system in ways that we could never do if we were stuck on the ground or even with aircraft. And Trump’s suggestion that NASA and other space agencies should just be looking outward and not inward towards the earth, is like suggesting that if you’re on a rescue mission to find lost hikers or a downed aircraft in the ocean that you should only look from the ground,” he said.