This is a remarkably frustrating story about how politics and bureaucracy can get in the way of science and also waste boatloads of taxpayer money. Recent news reports about Obama's proposed budget indicate that this might finally get funded for launch in 2014, but with all the budget uncertainty right now, it's hard to know if this will be for real.
"Who Killed The Deep Space Climate Observatory?" by Bill Donahue
Published in Popular Science, April 6, 2011
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