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Putting Some Air Back Into NASA’s Tires
Keith’s note. 2025 was a bad year for NASA due to DOGE and lack of real leadership. Then Jared Issacman arrived to help NASA get its mojo back. Well, 2026 is not 2025. The other day Frank Slazer (AIA alumnus) tweeted this: “Predictable:Workforce reductions have now registered simultaneously across 25 of 36 major projects.. understaffing…
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Jared Isaacman: Building Moon Base Faster: Lessons From a 90-Day Sprint
Keith’s note: this went out to the NASA Workforce today: “NASA Team: Building a permanent…
White House Issues A New Space Policy Video
Keith’s note: OSTP and the White House press office issued a space policy video focusing…
Lucky Starship 13
Keith’s note: SpaceX Starship 13 certainly did its thing: Booster soft landing, ship in orbit.…
OIG Report: Workforce and Budget Threats Loom
Keith’s note: GAO issued NASA: Assessments of Major Projects. Artemis are doing better but personnel…
Budget Cuts? No: Its A Golden Age Of Science
Keith’s note: this OSTP report “Science A New Golden Age” just dropped online around 7:00…
Transcript: Astronauts for America Event At The California Science Center
Keith’s note: this combination of auto-generated text proofed and corrected by an actual human at…
Changes To NASA’s Performance Ratings
Keith’s note: this memo : “Strengthening How We Recognize, Reward, Inspire NASA’s General Schedule (GS) Workforce” was sent out by Deputy Administrator Matt Anderson on 7 July 2026. FWIW while OPM asked for agencies to sync their performance calendars to the government’s fiscal year, it would seem that NASA is…
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Exploration
NASA Takes The Stage
Keith’s note: During the President’s speech last night the Artemis II crew and Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt came on stage and were given the next flag to fly on the Moon. Jared Isaacman got a shout out for doing a great job running NASA. NASA got a lot of attention – which is good.…
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Is NASA Force Going To Be Boring?
Keith’s note: Hey OPM: The people behind all these US TechForce graphics have a dark. gloomy hacker mindset. NASA is different. Be like NASA. Just sayin’.
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ARTEMIS
Fire Threatens Madrid DSN Complex
Keith’s note: NASA PAO statement about fires in the area around Madrid DSN complex: “The Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex (MDSCC), located in Robledo, Spain,…
Sonny Morea
Keith’s note: Saverio “Sonny” Francis Morea has died. (Obituary). He was truly one of the few remaining Apollo legends. Ad Astra Sonny. “Sonny was an…
Creepy Quantum Memes
Keith’s note: @DoWCTO (Department of War CTO) put out another one of those creepy, shoot-em-up video game graphics out on social media. NASA abolished their…
International space station
OIG Has Issues With Commercial Crew
Keith’s note: The NASA OIG has issued a report on Management of Commercial Crew – and they are concerned with a lot of things. Summary…
GAO Report On Space Station Replacement
Keith’s note: GAO has issued a report regarding the process whereby NASA is replacing the International Space Station with a commercial option. IMHO this report…
ISS Leak Update
Keith’s note: NASA PAO has provided this update on the ISS Leak situation: “The Zvezda service module’s transfer tunnel, known as the PrK, on the…
TECHNOLOGY
NAS Review Of NASA SBIR and STTR Programs
Keith’s note: The National Academies has issued “Review of the SBIR and STTR Programs at NASA”. In a nutshell the NAS likes NASA’s SBIR and…
Congress Pushes Back on National Science Board Firings
Keith’s note: The recent firing of the entire National Science Board by the White House is not going down well in Congress. While the immediate…
The Entire National Science Board Has Been Fired
Keith’s note: According to the Washington Post: “Members of the independent board that guides the National Science Foundation said they received a notice from the…