How Trump’s disciplined speech came together, Politico “A senior administration official also said references to NASA and space travel were dropped at the last-minute due to timing. “We wanted to keep the speech to an hour,” this person said.” Donald Trump: "American footprints on distant worlds are not too big a dream" #NASA @NASA #Jointsession pic.twitter.com/WiXBaNTCeX — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) March 1, 2017 Whatever Trump announces to increase support for […]
If you think NASA is frustrated with SpaceX, you’re probably right, Ars Technica “A more blunt assessment was offered by Mary Lynne Dittmar, who is familiar with the thinking of NASA’s human spaceflight program managers. “I find it extraordinary that these sorts of announcements are being made when SpaceX has yet to get crew from the ground to low-Earth orbit,” she told The New York Times. Dittmar serves as executive […]
Most of the people in this room are addicted to big, expensive satellites since that is what @NASA continues to ask them to build #v2050 — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) February 28, 2017 Now someone asks "why do missions cost so much?" Doubtful anyone here can or will answer since cost is mostly personnel #v2050 — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) February 28, 2017 No one here can answer the "what is the […]
Trump to Ask for Sharp Increases in Military Spending, Officials Say, NY Times “President Trump will instruct federal agencies on Monday to assemble a budget for the coming fiscal year that would include sharp increases in Defense Department spending; major cuts to other agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency; and no reductions to the largest entitlement programs, Social Security and Medicare, according to four senior administration officials. The outline, drafted […]
SpaceX To Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond The Moon Next Year, SpaceX “We are excited to announce that SpaceX has been approached to fly two private citizens on a trip around the moon late next year. They have already paid a significant deposit to do a moon mission. Like the Apollo astronauts before them, these individuals will travel into space carrying the hopes and dreams of all humankind, driven […]
Watch & ask Qs as @NASASolarSystem's scientists discuss a vision for Planetary Science in the future. Workshop info: https://t.co/6MG15LoDwF pic.twitter.com/gfRpmrx9h6 — NASA (@NASA) February 27, 2017 This is 1st time @NASA or https://t.co/XMMHKxgwON has EVER made any mention of this event now underway on 1st floor of #NASA HQ #v2050 https://t.co/sLj7COdgAd — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) February 27, 2017 With one tweet @NASA could tell 22,071,758 people that Planetary Science Vision […]
NASA Planetary Science Vision 2050 Workshop “NASA’s Planetary Science Division (PSD) is planning to host a community workshop at NASA headquarters in Washington, DC on February 27-28 and March 1, 2017. This workshop is meant to provide PSD with a very long-range vision of what planetary science may look like in the future. The workshop is to gather the leading experts in Solar System planetary science and related disciplines, together […]
Keith’s note: According to her Wikipedia page Lesa Roe “is currently serving as the Acting Deputy Administrator of NASA. Roe is also the Deputy Associate Administrator of NASA, being in role since May 2014.”. I cannot find any announcement from NASA or the White House that she was appointed to the position of Acting NASA Deputy Administrator. The Wikipedia page was last revised to add Roe’s new position on 1 […]
Want to build infrastructure that will make America Great? Look to the stars, op ed,The Hill “As much as America’s government space programs have accomplished, there are many aspects of our nation’s space infrastructure that are crumbling every bit as badly as interstate highways. Take a tour of most NASA or Air Force space facilities and you will see buildings that predate Neil Armstrong’s first walk on the Moon and […]
Why Did the House Science Committee Overlook NASA’s Former Chief Scientist?, The Atlantic “If you’d read that feed for coverage of the two-and-a-half-hour hearing, you’d be forgiven for thinking Stofan didn’t show up at all. … Where was she? Missing from more than the photo, it turned out. The House committee’s Twitter account–the same one that has shared false climate-change information from Breitbart News–didn’t mention her at all in its […]