Keith’s update: Sources report that CASIS Executive DirectorJoseph Vockley has actually been asleep at the wheel at CASIS. Literally. CASIS employees say that he falls asleep at both internal CASIS […]
2018
Posted inIT/Web
Yet Another NASA Computer Break In. Employee Data May Be Affected
Potential Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Compromise of NASA Servers “On Oct. 23, 2018, NASA cybersecurity personnel began investigating a possible compromise of NASA servers where personally identifiable information (PII) was […]
Posted inTrumpSpace
Here Comes The Space Force (Update: Its called "Space Command")
Trump to launch Space Command this week as Pence promotes space efforts, CNN “President Donald Trump will order in the coming days the establishment of a new military space command, […]
Posted inAeronautics
Wright Brothers X 2
On this date in 1903, Orville Wright made the first powered airplane flight. @xkcdComic puts it into perspective! pic.twitter.com/1SzEQ8Pg4R — Seattle Astronomy (@SeattleAstro) December 17, 2018
Posted inPersonnel News
Rona Ramon
Rona Ramon, Widow of Israel’s First Astronaut Ilan Ramon, Dies at 54, Haaretz “Rona Ramon, the widow of Israel’s first and only astronaut, died of pancreatic cancer Monday at age […]
Posted inCulture
Tony Stark Thanks Jim Bridenstine
Always good to know @NASA has your back. https://t.co/0Vuj4oErrE — Robert Downey Jr (@RobertDowneyJr) December 15, 2018
Posted inAstrobiology
Astrobiology Research Season Ends At Lake Untersee, Antarctica
Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Antarctic Status Report 15 December 2018: Back at Novolazarevskaya Station “The camp at Lake Untersee is now closed, we pulled the last three tents down early yesterday […]
Posted inPersonnel News
Bettina Inclán Is NASA's New Office of Communications Associate Administrator
Keith’s 14 December note: NASA has a new Associate Administrator for the headquarters Office of Communications: Bettina Inclán. According to her Twitter profile at @BettinaInclan: “Entrepreneur. Storyteller. Political junky. Tired […]
Posted inCommercialization
Virgin Galactic Does The Space Thing Their Own Way
Keith’s note: In September 2004, I was sitting in the auditorium at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California in the final session of the NASA Administrator’s Symposium “Risk and […]
Posted inCommercialization
Virgin Galactic Reaches "Space"
Richard Branson Welcomes Astronauts Home from Virgin Galactic’s Historic First Spaceflight “The historic achievement has been recognised by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) who announced today that early next year […]