How the Trump era is changing the federal bureaucracy, Washington Post “The clock ran out for hundreds of acting officials in November when a little-known law called the Vacancies Act […]
2017
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Bot-Generated NASA Fake News Word Salad
Jim bridenstine, donald trump’s choice to lead nasa back to the moon, has a new take on climate change — quartz, Hearthstone “Earliest now (November. one), senator Value Admiral leveled […]
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Will Mike Griffin Be America's Other Space Administrator?
Could the Pentagon’s new R&E head take over military space programs? “We haven’t laid flat the final responsibilities there, but what’s really exciting about next year is we’ve got Mike […]
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Bridenstine Confirmation Update
Keith’s note: With government shut down issues and an evaporating calendar, it is unlikely that Rep. Bridenstine nomination to be NASA Administrator will come up in 2017. Right now the […]
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Space Tesla Arrives At The Cape
A Red Car for the Red Planet https://t.co/PakS3rvp5C pic.twitter.com/440bvUHJeO — SpaceX (@SpaceX) December 22, 2017 Keith’s note: Elon Musk could have some serious citizen science fun with this. I was […]
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Bruce McCandless
Astronaut Bruce McCandless II Dies at 80 “Former NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II, mission specialist on the STS-41B and STS-31 missions, died Dec. 21, 2017, at the age of 80. […]
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Raytheon Is Marketing Its Alien UFO Trackers
The UFO spotter: Navy pilots used Raytheon tech to track a strange UFO, Raytheon “We might be the system that caught the first evidence of E.T. out there,” said Aaron […]
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Giant von Braun Head Moved at NASA MSFC
Giant von Braun Head Moved at @NASA_MSFC Someone@NASA.gov: "Construction crews just removed the Von Braun statue at a construction site. They assured me that they are going to put him […]
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Sign Language: Ready For Use In Space?
Keith’s note: Fast forward to 28:45 for an interview with deaf student astronaut Julia Velasquez in ASL who is currently at HI-SEAS Mars analog habitat in Hawaii. In a previous […]