A top NASA official told a House panel June 28 that the agency’s budget for Earth science is adequate, but other witnesses, along with Democratic lawmakers, begged to differ.

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Brian Berger is editor in chief of SpaceNews.com and the SpaceNews magazine. He joined SpaceNews.com in 1998, spending his first decade with the publication covering NASA. He was named senior staff writer in 2004, a position he held until being named...