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Year: 1996
Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel Review of Shuttle Program Risks

Review of Issues Associated with Safe Operation and Management of the Space Shuttle Program, Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel November 1996 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY At the request of the President of the United States through the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the NASA Administrator tasked the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel with the responsibility to identify and review issues associated with the safe operation and management of the Space Shuttle program […]

  • NASA Watch
  • December 16, 1996
Service Module Update

Keith’s note: RIF Watch has come across additional information from the Moscow meetings held in late November regarding the problems confronting the Russian Service Module. This is a follow-on to our earlier report. The Russians apparently do not understand NASA’s preoccupation with “schedule” and are often fond of pointing to their decades of experience with space stations when responding to NASA concerns. They have also tried to get NASA officials […]

  • NASA Watch
  • December 4, 1996
Service Module IPT Update

[email protected]’s note: I attended the Service Module IPT yesterday (11/21/96). The following is a summary of some of the discussion. A team of “senior NASA management” has been in Moscow to “discuss options” regarding the slip in the SM schedule. Randy Brinkley, Kieth Reilly, and Charlie Lundquist were present. They are due to come back today, and will be briefing Dan Goldin on Monday. Five options were discussed. The Russians […]

  • NASA Watch
  • November 21, 1996
Revised Buyout Plans

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Office of the Administrator Washington, DC 20546-0001 November 8, 1996 TO: C/Associate Administrator for Headquarters Operations Directors, NASA Field Installations FROM: AD/Acting Deputy Administrator SUBJECT: Revised Buyout Plans Several weeks ago, Sam Armstrong requested that each of you develop plans to take advantage of the buyout in FY l997. After reviewing the individual Center’s recommendations, then overlaying the numerous programmatic challenges facing the Agency, the […]

  • NASA Watch
  • November 8, 1996
Revised NASA Buyout Plans

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Office of the Administrator Washington, DC 20546-0001 November 8, 1996 TO:C/Associate Administrator for Headquarters Operations Directors, NASA Field Installations FROM:AD/Acting Deputy Administrator SUBJECT:Revised Buyout Plans Several weeks ago, Sam Armstrong requested that each of you develop plans to take advantage of the buyout in FY l997. After reviewing the individual Center’s recommendations, then overlaying the numerous programmatic challenges facing the Agency, the Administrator has accepted […]

  • NASA Watch
  • November 8, 1996
Letter to Dan Goldin About Space Life Science Research

Dear Mr. Goldin I am writing to offer some thoughts on your upcoming address to the 6th International Congress on Cell Biology in San Francisco next month. We anticipate a large audience of established investigators, both domestic and international, as well as thousands of graduate and postdoctoral trainees in cell and molecular biology. It may be helpful if I begin with some credentials so you can put my comments in […]

  • NASA Watch
  • November 4, 1996
NASA Staff Meeting Minutes 7 October 1996

Minutes of Senior Staff and Center Director’s Meeting October 7, 1996 The following documents the discussions addressed at the Senior Staff and Center Director’s Meeting on October 7, 1996. Mr. Goldin was not in attendance. Action assignments have been placed in brackets [ ] for easy identification. 1. AA Reports S/Huntress: The X-ray Timing Explorer (XTE) spacecraft entered a 12-hour safehold this past weekend. The craft is back online, and […]

  • NASA Watch
  • October 7, 1996
Headquarters Buyout Plan

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Headquarters Washington, DC 20546-0001 OCT 3 1996 Reply to the Attn of: CP TO: Officials-in-Charge of Headquarters Offices FROM: C/Associate Administrator for Headquarters Operations SUBJECT: Headquarters Buyout Plan As you are aware, the FY 1997 appropriation for NASA has been signed by the President. This Bill permits NASA to offer separation incentives (buyout) to our employees who leave under this authority up to the amount […]

  • NASA Watch
  • October 3, 1996
Draft NASA Buyout Plan

JUSTIFICATION: NASA is in the process of totally restructuring the agency. This effort is being undertaken in the context of a comprehensive NASA management reform initiative, the central objective of which is transitioning to NASA management by Enterprises. NASA Headquarters staffing levels are being driven by ZBR allocations, NPR guidance to reduce staffing levels at Headquarters offices by 50%, and the fundamental changes in the way we do business within […]

  • NASA Watch
  • October 3, 1996
Dan Goldin On Fox News

26 September 1996, Fox Morning News Lark McCarthy: Quickly tell us, what is NASA’s next major goal? What’s the next big thing you want to do? Dan Goldin: We want to figure out whether life is unique to planet Earth. And we’ve begun that process. We have ten spacecraft going to Mars in the next decade, and we’re going to figure out how people could live and work safely in […]

  • NASA Watch
  • September 26, 1996