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Podcast: Climate Now
Episode: Measuring CO2 from space: a journey of perseverance, heartbreak, and scientific breakthrough with David Crisp
Description: On the 24th of February, 2009, David Crisp was in the control center at Vandenberg Air Force base counting down the seconds for the Orbiting Carbon Observatory to launch.It was a project he had led for a decade - and it was the first NASA mission that would measure atmospheric carbon dioxide from space.Hundreds of millions of dollars and years of work had gone into that moment, but David and his team had yet to face their greatest challenge...This week, Climate Now is releasing a two-part series on NASA's Orbiting Carbon...