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Month: August 2021
NASA's New Odd Transparency

Unfortunately @NASA PAO is now holding "virtual briefings" where news media can no longer ask the briefers questions directly. Instead reporters have to email their questions in. This allows #NASA to filter the questions before they are asked – should they so desire #transparency https://t.co/iI00WAH2KO — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) August 31, 2021 While #NASA PAO has started to not allow news media to directly ask #NASA briefers questions at media […]

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  • August 31, 2021
That White House R&D Memo NASA Won't Talk About
That White House R&D Memo NASA Won't Talk About

Multi-Agency Research and Development Priorities for the FY 2023 Budget, OMN/OSTP “This memorandum outlines the Administration’s multi-agency R&D priorities for formulating fiscal year (FY) 2023 Budget submissions to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The priorities covered in this memo require continued investments in R&D; science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and engagement; STEM workforce development; technology transfer and commercialization; and research infrastructure, with emphasis on Historically Black […]

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  • August 30, 2021
Russia Finds More ISS Leaks
Russia Finds More ISS Leaks

Russian cosmonauts find new cracks in ISS module, Reuters “Russian cosmonauts have discovered new cracks in a segment of the International Space Station that could widen, a senior space official said on Monday, the latest in a series of setbacks. “Superficial fissures have been found in some places on the Zarya module,” Vladimir Solovyov, chief engineer of rocket and space corporation Energia, told RIA news agency. “This is bad and […]

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  • August 30, 2021
Bill Nelson Got An Ethics Waiver
Bill Nelson Got An Ethics Waiver

Revealed: Biden’s ethics exceptions, Axios “The details: NASA Administrator Bill Nelson was excused from rules that would have barred him from working with Lockheed Martin, for which he was a paid advisory board member. Nelson assured ethics officials prior to his confirmation that he would only be participating in policy matters potentially affecting Lockheed, not any procurement or contracting decisions involving the company.”

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  • August 30, 2021
Blue Origin HLS Suit Update: DOJ Has Adobe Acrobat Issues

NASA "reluctantly agrees" to extend the stay on SpaceX's HLS contract by a week bc the 7GB+ of case-related docs in the Blue Origin suit keeps causing DOJ's Adobe software to crash and key NASA staff were busy at Space Symposium this week, causing delays to a filing deadline. lol pic.twitter.com/HcTHsTAUfZ — Joey Roulette (@joroulette) August 27, 2021 Jeff Bezos’ NASA Lawsuit Is So Huge It’s Crashing the DOJ Computer […]

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  • August 30, 2021
Astronauts Now Do NASA PAO's Job When It Comes To Hurricane Threats (Update)

#HurricaneIda from @Space_Station just before noon CDT today. If you are/have been in its path, I’m thinking of you and hoping you stay safe. pic.twitter.com/C2fEJ3AxOh — Megan McArthur (@Astro_Megan) August 28, 2021 Keith’s 29 Aug 4:27 pm EDT Update: NASA PAO finally got around to doing some updates – after the hurricane made landfall. Keith’s 28 Aug 5:00 pm EDT note: Hurricane Ida is heading for the gulf coast and […]

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  • August 29, 2021
Larry Young
Larry Young

Laurence Young, professor emeritus of astronautics and renowned expert in bioastronautics, dies at 85, MIT “Laurence R. Young ’57, SM ’59, ScD ’62, the Apollo Program Professor Emeritus of Astronautics and professor of health sciences and technology at MIT, died peacefully at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Aug. 4 after a long illness. He was 85. … While he never flew a space mission, he served as backup crew […]

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  • August 26, 2021
National Space Council's Chirag Parikh Says The Right Things
National Space Council's Chirag Parikh Says The Right Things

Keith’s note: National Space Council Executive Director Chirag Parikh just made a short 10 minute presentation at the Space Symposium. He has only been on the job for 3 weeks but he did touch on some important topics – at least topics that I think are important i.e making space relevant beyond the space community’s little bubble. Whether NASA pays attention to what Parikh and the National Space Council says […]

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  • August 25, 2021
Joe Biden's NASA Needs A Wake Up Call
Joe Biden's NASA Needs A Wake Up Call

Keith’s note: There are a variety of advisory bodies set up for the purpose of soliciting expert advice for how America should run its space activities. One entity, the NASA Advisory Council (NAC) is supposed to be the prime focus on such advice collection. Given the whole pandemic thing, it should be expected that things have fallen behind. But while NASA does everything else, it seems to be unable to […]

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  • August 24, 2021