Colin Seftor said: You stopped (more than) some, forgetting to pay your attention from research to research. NASA too:
– was the first to look at and take measures from the earth (earth, ocean and heaven) of space, revolutionizing weather forecast (and, yes, climate studies) and facilitating (if not the creation outright) the field of earth sciences
– Helping to stimulate the creation of the Montreal Protocol, one of the most successful international treaties (achieving a universal world ratification), with the release of the image of the first ozone hole and now emblematic and now emblematic and subsequent updates over more than half a century. The protocol was a success outright, with recent measures (by NASA and others) indicating that the size and depth of the hole now decrease.
– revolutionizing agriculture by integrating satellite measures (such as soil humidity) in software packages that farmers use to determine the planting, rotation and conservation of cultures
– Provide critical information on fires and thermal anomalies derived from satellites used by firefighters on the ground to combat forest fire activity not only in the United States and Canada, but in the world.
I could continue, but I know you (and others) get the point …