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NASA HQ Security – Still Dazed and Confused

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
February 5, 2007

Editor’s note: When I showed up today at NASA HQ for the budget press conference, the guards ordered me to go through a security scanner/metal detector. Not unexpected since my press badge (like the rest of the media’s) is no longer valid. I was not given a badge after being screened, but was allowed to go into the auditorium. What was annoying is the fact that while I (and others) were required to go through this hassle, other people – without badges of any kind – were allowed to walk in off the street, cross the lobby, and enter the Webb Auditorium without being stopped or forced to go through the metal detector.

Later, when I was heading up to the afternoon AA briefings on the 5th floor, the guard told me that I could not go up, but that I had to be cleared and badged (since no one thought of that the first time) and then go through the metal detector (again).

People at HQ assure me that NASA security is getting its act together. Based on today’s experience, it seems they are as confused as ever.

NASA Watch founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber.