Ivanka Trump touring NASA’s Johnson Space Center on Thursday, Houston Chronicle
“Ivanka Trump will be in Houston on Thursday for a tour of NASA’s Johnson Space Center. President Donald Trump’s daughter will be accompanied by NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine.”
Ivanka Trump to visit Mesquite on Friday to see how Walmart trains workers for today’s economy, Dallas Morning News
“Ivanka Trump isn’t the only member of the Trump family who’ll be in Texas in the coming weeks. Texas State Rep. James Frank announced on his Facebook page that Sen. Ted Cruz and Donald Trump Jr. would be in Wichita Falls for a rally on Oct. 3. And the president announced on Aug. 31 he would be coming to Texas in October to hold a “major rally” for Cruz.”
Keith’s note: That’s three visits to JSC in Texas in a matter of a few months for Jim Bridenstine. All other NASA centers have had only one visit. Just sayin’. Also, FWIW Ted Cruz has a political rally shortly after his JSC campaign appearance with Ivanka tour just down the street at Franca’s Real Italian Restaurant at 1101 East NASA Parkway on Thursday night (that’s nice and close to JSC). Let’s see who else shows up.
Keith’s update: A hearing scheduled for next Wednesday titled “Global Space Race: Ensuring the United States Remains the Leader in Space” chaired by Ted Cruz suddenly appeared on the webpage of the Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness. Its certainly convenient to have these JSC visits, rallys, and hearings all scheduled so close together. If Cruz is re-elected – and the Senate does not flip – then this is probably a good thing for human space flight at NASA. If either of those things do not happen well, who knows.
– VP Pence Visits Texas For A Fund Raiser And A JSC Visit, earlier post (23 August 2018)

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12 replies on “Another Overtly Political Campaign Visit At JSC”

  1. There is no doubt that these are campaign events for Sen Cruz that are paid for by the taxpayer. He must be very worried.

        1. It’s got all the humidity of the Midwest (where I am) only with more heat plus the occasional hurricane! Shiny! 😛

          1. Worse things have been said about Washington D.C. The climate is almost as bad, and (although it’s a bit dated) that city was once described as combining Northern charm and Southern industry.

  3. It seems quite some time since JSC has been visited by major politcal figures. I haven’t kept count but I’m thinking the Wayne Hale’s blog post few years ago of “Why Houston doesn’t deserve a Orbiter” where he says it was 1990s a Governor visited and he can’t remember last time JSC was visited by Houston mayor. Though GW Bush was at JSC for Columbia crew memorial services.

  5. We get the level of political discourse that we deserve.

    Or, the level predicted by our education system.

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