When Michael Freilich returned to NASA in 2006 to run the Earth Science Division, a National Research Council panel finishing work on a 10-year plan for space-based Earth observation recently had begun warning Washington policymakers that the Bush administration's focus on human lunar exploration was coming at the expense of the agency's study of the home planet The so-called decadal survey the panel ultimately delivered in 2007 prescribed $2 billion in annual funding to pay for no fewer than 15 new missions chosen to ensure U.S. Earth observation leadership through 2020 and beyond.
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机译：当迈克尔·弗赖里希（Michael Freilich）在2006年返回美国国家航空航天局（NASA）负责地球科学部时，美国国家研究委员会（National Research Council）的一个小组完成了对太空天基地球观测十年计划的工作，最近开始警告华盛顿决策者，布什政府对人类登月探索的关注是该小组最终于2007年进行的所谓的年代际调查规定每年拨款20亿美元，用于支付至少15个新任务的费用，以确保美国在2020年及以后的地球观测工作中处于领先地位。
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