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Jared@43 channels Jared@15 With Students At Hack Club
Keith’s note: The other day Jared Isacman channeled his earlier self in a student webinar sponsored by Hack Club. This summary was posted on LinkedIn by Ahmed Khaled. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to attend a Hack Club AMA with Jared Isaacman, Head of NASA. I don’t know what to say. It’s like a dream…
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Nathan Vassberg To Head Office of Safety and Mission Assurance
Keith’s note: Amit Kshatriya Just issued this memo: NASA Team Members, I am pleased to…
OCHCO Memo To All NASA Employees
Keith’s note: the NASA Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer (OCHCO) just sent this…
Putting Some Air Back Into NASA’s Tires
Keith’s note. 2025 was a bad year for NASA due to DOGE and lack of…
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.…
Isaacman Visits With The Republican Study Committee
Keith’s note: Yesterday Jared Isaacman spoke to the Republican Study Committee. He said does not…
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,…
Astronauts For America “Vote for Freedom” Campaign
Keith’s note: according to AFA: “Astronauts For America (AFA) [astronautsforamerica.org] will host a launch event on Monday, July 20, 2026 in the California Science Center’s…
Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG) Update
Keith’s note: this was sent out to the OPAG Listserv this afternoon: Dear OPAG Community, Welcome to the new email listserv! We appreciate your patience…
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
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…
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…