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Year: 2020
National Space Council: Well Done – Thanks!

It bears repeating that Scott Pace and his team put an immense amount of heart and soul into their time at the National Space Council. They paid attention to a lot of things that had not been paid attention to for a very long time. They created something for others to build upon. https://t.co/U5VyWVHHSp — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) December 31, 2020

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  • December 31, 2020
New Planetary Protection Strategy Released
New Planetary Protection Strategy Released

Report: National Strategy for Planetary Protection “Today, the National Space Council released the National Strategy for Planetary Protection. This Strategy will advance the Nation’s role in the sustainable exploration of space by appropriately protecting other planetary bodies and the Earth from potentially harmful biological contamination from space exploration activities. Planetary protection refers to the policy and practice of protecting scientific investigations by limiting biological contamination of other planetary bodies and […]

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  • December 30, 2020
Gil Moore

I am deeply saddened to hear of Gil's passing. I first met him in 1978 when I was a student. He went out of his way many times to help me. The first time that he saw me with a @NASA badge on he told me how proud he was. Gil Moore was the archetype of all space mentors. #AdAstra https://t.co/iwx05CAtoK — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) December 30, 2020 R. Gilbert […]

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  • December 30, 2020
FYI: NASA's Office Of The Chief Information Officer Is Still Broken
FYI: NASA's Office Of The Chief Information Officer Is Still Broken

NASA OIG: Fiscal Year 2020 Federal Information Security Modernization Act Evaluation – An Agency Common System “… We found that NASA had not assessed the Agency common control entitled SI-04, Information System Monitoring, since April 2015. Moreover, the control was classified in 2015 as “other than satisfied,” but system security officials still had not taken appropriate action to address the control deficiency by developing either a POA&M or Risk-Based Decision […]

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  • December 29, 2020
NASA Employees: Has Management Told You If You Are Schedule F?
NASA Employees: Has Management Told You If You Are Schedule F?

Congress won’t block Trump’s order to strip civil service protections from many federal workers, Washington Post “The bill is silent regarding an executive order issued just before the election that would change the status of federal employees whose work involves making or carrying out policy or giving confidential advice to top officials. Under the order, they could be dismissed with little cause or recourse, much like the political appointees who […]

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  • December 28, 2020
After ISS – What?
After ISS – What?

The International Space Station can’t stay up there forever. Will privately run, commercial replacements be ready in time?, Washington Post “Wary of a gap, Bridenstine has increasingly been sounding the alarm, urging Congress to fully fund its requests to build a commercial presence in Earth orbit that would include private stations. Last year, NASA requested $150 million as part of its plan, but Congress granted just a tenth of that. […]

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  • December 23, 2020
JoAnn Clayton Townsend
JoAnn Clayton Townsend

JoAnn Clayton Townsend (1935-2020), Space Policy Online “JoAnn Clayton Townsend, former director of the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (ASEB) at the National Academies and an AIAA Fellow, passed away last night from congestive heart failure. She had just turned 85. A native of Tulsa, OK, JoAnn traveled the world with her husband, John Clayton, a journalist with the U.S. Information Service, until his untimely death when their two children […]

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  • December 23, 2020
Dmitry Rogozin Is Spitting Mad At The U.S. Space Trampoline
Dmitry Rogozin Is Spitting Mad At The U.S. Space Trampoline

Commerce Department Will Publish the First Military End User List Naming More Than 100 Chinese and Russian Companies “The MEU List informs exporters, reexporters, and transferors that a license will be required to export, reexport, or transfer (in-country) designated items to listed entities. The U.S. Government has determined that these entities represent an unacceptable risk of use in or diversion to a ‘military end use’ or ‘military end user’ in […]

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  • December 22, 2020
Confusing Story About Euthanized Monkeys At NASA Ames
Confusing Story About Euthanized Monkeys At NASA Ames

Revealed: all 27 monkeys held at Nasa research center killed on single day in 2019, The Guardian “A total of 27 primates were euthanized by administrated drugs on 2 February last year at Nasa’s Ames research center in California’s Silicon Valley, it has emerged. The monkeys were ageing and 21 of them had Parkinson’s, according to documents released under freedom of information laws. … A Nasa spokesperson said: “Nasa does […]

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  • December 22, 2020