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Lucky Starship 13
Keith’s note: SpaceX Starship 13 certainly did its thing: Booster soft landing, ship in orbit. 40 second Raptor relight, 20 Starlink Version 3’s deployed, all of which worked, smooth reentry and an amazing soft landing in the Indian ocean with the ship still floating long after splashdown. #rocketscience y’all
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Fire Threatens Madrid DSN Complex
Keith’s note: NASA PAO statement about fires in the area around Madrid DSN complex: “The…
Isaacman Visits With The Republican Study Committee
Keith’s note: Yesterday Jared Isaacman spoke to the Republican Study Committee. He said does not…
OIG Report: Workforce and Budget Threats Loom
Keith’s note: GAO issued NASA: Assessments of Major Projects. Artemis are doing better but personnel…
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…
Astronauts For America ‘Vote for Freedom’ College Tour (Video Update)
Keith’s note: yesterday Astronauts For America Announces announced a college tour to encourage youth voter…
Science Community Pushes Back On OMB
Keith’s note: In June OMB issued new regulations which, if implemented, would gut the way…
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
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…
NASA’s Flight Experience Awards
Keith’s note: Several more NASA employees were recognized as part of Jared Isaacman’s Flight Experience Award program. The ride-along flight experience award program highlights NASA’s…
NASA’s New Final Rule on Nondiscrimination
Keith’s note: NASA has just published “Final rule – Nondiscrimination in Federally Assisted Programs of NASA– Effectuation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act…
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…