clearvision Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 USA Today: Al Gore's presidential career never left the ground. But a controversial space mission he dreamed up will soon take flight – literally — after more than 15 years of being ridiculed and stalled. A satellite inspired by Gore's ideas is slated to blast off at 6:10 p.m. ET Sunday, bound for a spot a million miles from Earth. From there the satellite, called the Deep Space Climate Observeratory or DSCOVR for short, will beam back pictures of the sunlit orb of our planet suspended in space, as Gore proposed nearly two decades ago. DSCOVR's ride to the cosmos has been bumpy. Republican critics, deriding it as "nutty" and a "boondoggle," sneeringly refer to it as "Goresat." Congress repeatedly tried to kill it. NASA stashed it in a warehouse in 2001 for indefinite storage. --------- Al Gore and blasts off should not be used in same sentence.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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