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 […]
2020
Posted inAstrobiology
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 […]
Posted inPersonnel News
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 […]
Posted inIT/Web
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, […]
Posted inPersonnel News
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 […]
Posted inArtemis
Echoes Of Hope During A Very Bad Year – Half a Century Ago
#OTD 24 December 1968 – greetings sent from humans in lunar orbit on Christmas Eve – as a troubling year ended on planet Earth.https://t.co/Sh1fZymwtW — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) December 24, […]
Posted inCommercialization
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 […]
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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 […]
Posted inRussia
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 […]
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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 […]