NASA Spends $40,000 on Orion Swag
#NASA is spending $40,000 on Orion EFT-1 lapel pins. That's the equivalent of someone's college education. https://t.co/oHis0KZUB4
— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) April 25, 2014
Keith’s note: NASA complains about not having enough money for education and public outreach — but they can afford to pay $40,000 for lapel pins that they will just hand out to NASA employees, contractor personnel, and @NASASocial attendees.
Hopefully it is for more than just EFT1. Lapel pins for EFT1 will have a lifespan from now to the launch, less than a year . After that they are just EBAY fodder.
It would be great if they had some kind of a plan for education; last year the White House and NASA announced they were curtailing education activities, then Congress said no they weren’t and no one seems to know what the plan is anymore, other than they did cut back the education funding by $25 million.
Looks like they have an outreach plan-to spend some of that money. I wonder if its spent in the US or overseas?
A good point; where are the pins actually manufactured? China would be my guess.
That is a bunch of lapel pins, my guess its more than one for everyone that works for NASA and on Orion/SLS. I am sure they had plenty of trouble with Beth Robinson on this, my guess is that she was not happy about this.
Can I have one?
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These Orion lapel pins must be diamond studded. Last year I paid out of pocket $700 for 2,800 TPiS lapel pin souvenier freebies.
I hope NASA is getting some money from Target for the NASA logo shirts.
Who do I talk to to get some of that swag for the Lunar Sample Bags at my Moon Day event?
According to on-line business sources, ACI is a one-person operation, female led.
She’s fronting the real supplier, I suspect, very common in minority/female expenditures and it still counts towards an organization’s “minority” firm contracts.