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Month: November 2014
NASA's Sloppy FY 2014 Agency Financial Report

NASA FY 2014 Agency Financial Report“Audit of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Fiscal Year 2014 Financial Statements (IG-15-006, November 14, 2014) The Office of Inspector General contracted with the independent public accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) to audit NASA’s fiscal year (FY) 2014 financial statements. PwC performed the audit in accordance with the Government Accountability Office’s Government Auditing Standards and the Office of Management and Budget’s Bulletin No. 14-02, […]

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  • November 26, 2014
Synchronizing Calendars at NASA

– NASA Advisory Council Human Exploration and Operations Committee – Meeting Postponement – NASA Advisory Council Science Committee – Meeting Postponement – NASA Advisory Council – Meeting Postponement “The meeting is being postponed by NASA due to exceptional circumstances and schedule conflicts of the NASA top leadership in connection with post-launch programmatic requirements of the Orion Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT- 1) on December 4, 2014, at NASA Kennedy Space Center […]

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  • November 26, 2014
NASA is Fixing Year 2000 Compliance in Year 2014

Federal Acquisition Regulation; Year Format, NASA “DoD, GSA, and NASA published a proposed rule in the Federal Register at 79 FR 16274 on March 25, 2014. No public comments were submitted. The final rule makes no changes from the proposed rule. DoD, GSA, and NASA are amending the FAR to delete obsolete coverage relating to the year 2000 compliance at FAR 39.002, 39.101(a) and 39.106. Also, the rule makes conforming […]

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  • November 25, 2014
Lewis Peach

Keith’s note: Sources report that Lewis Peach has died. Lew was always working on interesting things. Always. Ad astra. “Lewis Peach died on Nov. 22 at his home in Arnold. He retired from Senior Executive Service at NASA where he served as Project Manager in the Office of Space Flight, and the NASA Academy for program/Project and Engineering Leadership. He was a vice-president for exploration/development at USRA. Lewis began his […]

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  • November 25, 2014
NASA Wants To Be More Efficient. Just Kidding.

Earth and Life Sciences, Aircraft Ops Under Microscope in NASA Consolidation Effort, Space News “NASA’s latest attempt to right-size its 10 U.S. field centers will begin with a focus on a roughly $3 billion cross-section of the agency’s nearly $18 billion budget that could affect some 10,000 civil servants and contractors, a senior agency official said here Nov. 20. .. Roe, former director of NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, […]

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  • November 25, 2014
Putin-backed RD-180 Markup Scheme Unveiled

In murky Pentagon deal with Russia, big profit for a tiny Florida firm, reuters “For months, a powerful U.S. senator has been pushing for details of a murky deal under which a Russian manufacturer supplies the rocket engines used to launch America’s spy satellites into space. At issue: how much the U.S. Air Force pays for the engines, how much the Russians receive, and whether members of the elite in […]

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  • November 25, 2014
NASA Announces a Challenge Before It Announces the Challenge

Keith’s note: NASA has posted Notice of Centennial Challenges Cube Quest Challenge in today’s Federal Register. $5,000,000 to send a cubesat to the Moon. Very cool. The notice says “To register for or get additional information regarding the Cube Quest Challenge, please visit: http://www.nasa.gov/cubequestchallenge“ If you visit that link you will get an error notice from NASA.gov. I told NASA that the link was broken. Their response was “The link […]

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  • November 24, 2014
More People Leave Earth for Space

Expedition 42 Launches on Time to International Space Station “The Soyuz TMA-15M launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station at 4:01 p.m. EST (3:01 a.m. on Nov. 24 Baikonur time). Terry Virts of NASA, Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency now are safely in orbit.” #Soyuz w/ 3 #Exp42 crew members docked to #ISS […]

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  • November 23, 2014
More HSPD-12 Abuses at JPL

A Question of Loyalty, Pasadena Weekly “Over the past eight months, Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer Cate Heneghan said she has been dealing with what she considers to be an abuse of authority by NASA, which has been trying to force her to sign what amounts to a loyalty oath — asking intrusive questions about her allegiance to the United States. Heneghan, who was born and raised in Bethesda, Md., studied […]

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  • November 21, 2014